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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s an exciting new book that is full of great information regarding developing components in Flex 4. The book is very in depth and a really great read. I have yet to finish the entire thing but am slowly making my way through it. The beginning of the book is an overview of Flex and [...]

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 [...]

We’ve all seen it, the code that makes you cringe. The projects that leave you scratching your head for hours and hours. The nightmares you have and cold sweats you wake up with at 2AM with your mind racing about 900 line long methods. The countless nested if and for statements, the code with 20 [...]

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 second episode of seantheflexguyTV! In this episode I talk about the upcoming Flash and the City conference in NYC. I also cover some of the new features and capabilities of AIR 2.0 and do a quick review of the Flex 3 with Java book. This episode should be a little more organized and [...]