Chuck FreedmanTed has announced the initial videos of sessions from MAX North America are starting to be posted. This is exciting. Having videos from 360Flex San Jose has been excellent. Since I was working the Ribbit booth during the conference, I missed out on a lot of sessions I wanted to see. I’ve asked Ted if [...]
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My favorite ActionScript interview questions to ask
I’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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Universal Mind blogging loud and clear
Recently I blogged about Esria’s efforts to engage the community by aiming the talents of Josh Tynjala towards open source components and tools. I am becoming very impressed with the way Universal Mind has mobilized its talented (and very well-known) force to promote the company’s efforts and projects through the individual blogging of the entire [...]
Where are all the cool Yahoo! AIR apps?
If you are a Yahoo! user, like me, you may be wondering why none of the dozens of killer AIR-app conversions that SHOULD BE available by now are nowhere to be found. I’m talking about a cool suite of Flickr, Maps, Upcoming, Del.icio.us, Mail, Sports and Answers that I’ve wanted but have yet to see. [...]
Announcing Flex & AIR training for Silicon Valley
I am happy to announce that For Those About to Code, a new training series my wife and I have started, is launching today! The first course will feature world-renowned Flex expert instructor Mike Kollen and me, Chuck Freedman, teaching Flex and AIR. Here are the details: For Those About to Code: Flex & AIR [...]
Flash/Flex consulting is winning the recruiting game — finally?
Almost 4 years ago, towards the end of my tenure at Fidelity, I started getting the itch to become a well-paid consultant. I invited our team’s super expensive Java consultant for a cup of coffee. I picked his brain about what it was like to consult, how lucrative it was for him and how he [...]
