Archive for the 'frameworks' Category

Interview with Jonathan Campos of Miller & Associates and the Spoon Project

name: Jonathan Campos age: 29 employer: Miller & Associates / Dedo Inc. location: Dallas, Tx when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I wasn’t interested in computers for YEARS, mainly because the only computer I was used to seeing was my dad’s golden rod computer that did nothing but print to it’s [...]

Interview with Doug Winnie aka @sfdesigner from Adobe Systems

name: Doug Winnie age: 35, going on 25… employer: Adobe Systems location: San Francisco, CA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I started working with Flash and ActionScript back in 1999 when I was still in college and when I started my first web job as a web designer at the University of Delaware. I [...]

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 Matthew Wallace

name: Matthew Wallace age: N/A employer: N/A location: N/A when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I have been a developer since 2001 and started working in the Flash Player since 2004 are you practicing TDD? why/why not? I stated using more TDD this year. It is proven to be a great way to prove functionality [...]

Interview with Jesse Warden aka jesterxl from Web App Solutions

name: Jesse Warden age: 32 employer: self-employed (Warden D&D / Web App Solution) location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Started Flash and ActionScript in 2001. Doing our projects in Director didn’t work for a variety of reasons, namely Designers couldn’t use Director with me, their designs were limited, and animations looked [...]

Presentation on May 25th: Intro to Test Driven Development (TDD) and TDD Kata

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 [...]

BabelFX for localization of Flex applications

One of the most useful sessions I attended at 360Flex was Rob Rusher’s session on localization of Flex applications. All the sessions were great but this one applied directly to a project I’m working on. In the session Rob gave an overview of the BabelFX framework and explained how to get it set up and [...]

Motivational Programming Posters Redux (The Code Strikes Back!)

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 [...]