Chuck FreedmanI’m about to interview someone for an ActionScript-related position here at Ribbit, and in my preparations, I thought I should post my top 5 favorite sets of questions to ask candidates. I have done a lot of interviewing in my 10 year Flash career, and these questions usually engage the candidate in a unique and [...]
Archive | October, 2008
Video on stage at AjaxWorld, talking AIR and Ribbit
Kaushal from Ribbit came with me to AjaxWorld and took some video of me demo-ing Joe Johnston’s AIR iPhone. The cool part about this is I go off and talk about the complete method/event cycle of how the app works with the Ribbit services to receive, answer and hang up the call. My next presentation [...]
RelayMonkey Flash widget for Bloggers
RelayMonkey is a super pet project I worked on initially over a year and a half ago. I wrote about it 6 months ago and haven’t touched it (let alone thought about it) since then. Basically, it’s a service that lets blog readers receive true subscription notifications by email when a blog is updated. Once [...]
Presenting Flash technology, Ribbit at AjaxWorld
A little later this afternoon I will be speaking at AjaxWorld 2008, at the San Jose Fairmont. The conference has incorporated ‘RIA’ in the tagline, and in recent years has opened up to showcasing a lot of web technologies. This includes Flash now so much that there are several notable sessions on Flash, Flex and [...]
finding the flowers in the cracks
I seem to be hyper-aware these days of my corporate surroundings. Silicon Valley, in particular, has more than its share of Costcos, Wallmarts, Best Buys, Starbucks, and more fast food restaurants than I knew existed. On a mid-morning visit to Peet’s coffee this morning, I noticed something delightfully inspiring. Amongst what my friend Brenda Lee [...]
Adobe MAX 2008 Announcement
Like so many of last year’s non-Adobe-employed speakers, I was not invited to speak at MAX this year. Thankfully, I was able to lobby Ribbit to obtain a significant presence at this year’s show (more details to come). I really enjoyed my first speaking experience at MAX last year and I am excited to be [...]
Adobe’s rapid product cycles, a dream or a nightmare?
Imagine this. You wake up in the middle of the night. Heart pounding. Excited. Anxious. You just had a dream that you were hit with three separate emails. 3 products that you live and die by are all changing over into new versions. Flash Player is going from version 9 to 10. Flash IDE is [...]
Google FlashSense
Wow, didn’t see this one coming. Google has launched a version of AdSense for Flash gaming. I know that a lot of Flash game devs are going to love the monetization boost that many bloggers already enjoy. Although, I’m wondering if the ads will be as discreet as they are on blogs. Or will they [...]
