That’s right! I’m on the hunt for a great team and project to dive into. Obviously my skills are mostly Flex related, AS3 as well. However I also have experience with JavaScript and Java. I can do UI Design and animation as well. I’ve been working with Flash since 1998 so there aren’t too many [...]

Last night I gave my Intro to TDD and TDD Kata presentation using Adobe Connect to the Bloomington/Normal Illinois Rich Internet Applications Adobe Group. The presentation was recorded and is now available online for anyone that wasn’t able to attend the live session. I’ve also uploaded the slideshow with all of the info, quotes, links, [...]

I’ll be giving a presentation on TDD for the Bloomington/Normal, IL Rich Internet Applications Group on May 25th at 6:30PM (Central time). It will be broadcast via Adobe Connect so you watch it from anywhere. It will also be recorded for playback at a later point in time. Here’s more info about the presentation: This [...]

SourceMate is a really cool plug-in that can be used in Flex/Flash Builder. SourceMate provides some really useful functionality that isn’t included by default with Flash Builder. I’ve been using SourceMate for a little while and there are some really powerful, time saving features. There are some handy functions like comment/uncomment all for classes. This [...]

Over the last week or so I added ten new Motivational Programming Posters to the collection. They were posted on Twitter throughout the week and so far have received pretty good feedback. Thanks everyone for checking them out!! They are really fun to make and I’m usually laughing while making them from beginning to end I’d like [...]

TDD Kata are something I’ve been interested in for some time. Carving out some time to get started doing them took a little while but I’ve finally started. If you’re not familiar with TDD Kata they’re basically a way to practice TDD. If you’re not familiar with TDD, take a moment to look into Test [...]

Here’s the first episode of seantheflexguyTV! I’ll talk about several new Flex related tools and some software development books. I’d like to thank Jesse Warden for the inspiration and the nudge to get seantheflexguyTV started. More specifically in this episode I talk a little about: RobotLegs, Parsley, FlexPMD, RIATest, Hello Flex 4, Clean Code, 97 [...]

Taking a look at everyone’s “2009 In Review” blog posts is really great inspiration. Looking back over the last year is always worth taking a minute to do. It’s great to reflect on personal growth over the course of a year and take note of our accomplishments. I decided to recall the last year for [...]

Interested in Design Patterns? Check out this article on InsideRIA that explains the Decorator Design Pattern. This article explains the Open Closed Principal and discusses favoring composition over inheritance. These are very powerful OOP concepts that can be leveraged to produce more flexible and robust code. The Decorator is a great pattern to learn after [...]

For a good part of 2009 I had the extreme pleasure of working with Intridea on an open source AIR application for their Present.ly microblogging service. Present.ly provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company, without them being visible to the outside world. The service has a Twitter-compatible API [...]