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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a new book related to Android development that I had the opportunity to take a look at. This is geared toward native droid dev but is definitely worth a look. Here’s some additional information on the book: Leverage the Android platform’s flexibility and power to design impactful user-interfaces Build compelling, user-friendly applications that will [...]
Back in December the awesome crew over at Adafruit created a laptop bag inspired by the Tron 2 movie. I first saw the Tron laptop bag on their blog and they also talked about it on one of the episodes of their live web TV show, Ask An Engineer. That was the first time I’d [...]
Here’s a new AS3/Flex project I’ve been working on that uses brainwave data to control an LED on an Arduino microcontroller. The brainwave data is captured with a Mindset BCI, sent into an AIR application and then sent to an Arduino Duemilanove. It uses the AS3 API I created for interfacing Flash/Flex projects to the [...]
Over the past few weeks I started a couple different polls to gather data regarding the experience and pay for Flex development. You can find links to the polls in this post but I’ll also give a quick breakdown of what the data has revealed! There are many things to take into consideration regarding the [...]
Here are some more development notes on the Arduino development I’ve been doing over the last couple of months. First a quick recap… Back in August Mike Chambers held an Arduino contest through his blog. I entered but didn’t win the grand prize for my Arduino development idea. Mike ended up sending everyone who entered [...]
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 [...]
