Archive for the 'Flash Platform' Category

Airgile a lightweight, easy to use project/task/defect management and tracking tool

Over the past few weeks I’ve been testing out Airgile to help me plan, track and manage my current Flex development effort. Before I continue please keep in mind this review is coming from someone who hates, no LOATHES project tracking tools/systems. I’ve used quite a few of them and most are a total waste [...]

Interview with Almog Koren from Almog Design

name: Almog Koren employer: Freelancer working under my own studio Almog Design location: Israel (Originally from Las Vegas) when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? That’s really good question I started to play around with Flash back in high school not sure what version it was but back them it was under Macromedia and it was [...]

Interview with Joseph Labrecque from University of Denver and Fractured Vision Media, LLC

name: Joseph Labrecque age: 235 employer: University of Denver / Fractured Vision Media, LLC location: Denver, CO USA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I began using Flash here and there in 1999/2000 with Macromedia Flash 4. Previous to that, I was mainly doing straight HTML and a bunch of design work; Photoshop, Illustrator, 35mm [...]

Interview with Michelle Rueda aka @ruedaminute

name: Michelle Rueda age: 28 employer: N/A location: Austin, TX (just moved)! when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Whoooeee. I believe that was in 2005. I was working at a pretty boring, soul-sucking place in NYC and I could do my job well in a couple of hours, so what did I do with the [...]

Interview with John Gorena aka @killerspaz

name: John Gorena age: 27 employer: N/A location: Dallas, TX when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Funny… I used to be of the mindset that Flash was evil, and slowed everything down when browsing the web… At the time, I was working for a large company and finished this huge project about 9 months early. [...]

Interview with Terry Paton

name: Terry Paton age: 37 employer: me! location: Sydney, Australia when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I started playing with Flash around 2000, but didn’t seriously get coding till around 2003/04. I started coding because I wanted to make games. are you practicing TDD? why/why not? I don’t even know what that really means. My [...]

Interview with Jason Fincanon aka @FlashCanon

name: Jason Fincanon age: 37 employer: Intuit location: Dallas, TX when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Shortly after I finished school at The Art Institute of Dallas (for 3D Animation) in 1998. are you practicing TDD? why/why not? No. I have no good reason. Maybe I should start… but not today… I’m doing other stuff [...]

Interview with Kathryn Rotondo

name: kathryn rotondo employer: none location: Tübingen, germany when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? in 2004, i started learning flash through evening classes from RISD’s continuing education department, and was delighted to discover actionscript. i had just completed a software engineering certificate at the harvard extension school (using mostly java), and actionscript really clicked with [...]

Interview with Tanya Gray (from Auckland, New Zealand!)

name: Tanya Gray age: 22 employer: Me! location: Auckland, New Zealand when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Dabbled a little in timeline animation with Flash from 2005, got into some timeline-based AS3 in 2008, then started Flex Development in 2009 with Flex 3.5 are you practicing TDD? why/why not? Unfortunately my previous employer was not [...]

Interview with Omar Gonzalez aka s9tpepper from Almer Blank

name: Omar Gonzalez age: 32 employer: http://almerblank.com location: Venice Beach, California when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I first started working with Flash around 1999 using Flash 4, first adding “flashy pieces” to HTML sites and eventually starting to create small apps and video players. I didn’t start Flex until Flex 2 beta. I remember [...]