Archive for the 'General Development Notes' Category

I’m available for Flex / AS3 / Flash / JavaScript work

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 [...]

Interview with Joel Hooks from Universal Mind and the Spoon Project

name: Joel Hooks age: 37 employer: Universal Mind location: FORT WORTH TEXAS YEEHAW when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? At the earliest was LOGO on a TRS-80 when I was about 8 or so. After that I would hack a little BASIC on my buddy’s C-64. I took the PASCAL prerequisite in [...]

Interview with David Wolever from Toronto, Canada

name: David Wolever age: 23 employer: Verso Furniture (although the website is horribly, horribly out of date, so I won’t bother linking to it) location: Toronto, Canada when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? The first “programming” I remember was watching my dad tell DOS to count to 1000. I was impressed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]