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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for February, 2008

Speaking at 360Flex: Making Bling with Flex

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

I’m speaking at 360Flex next week, Feburary 25th at 4:00 pm. My topic is officially called “Big and Famous: How to Succeed as an Independent Developer”. My topic will cover:

Why and how to become an independent developer
Why and how to make money
Why and how to build your personal brand
Why and how to use [...]

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I am a bottleneck at work. It’s made worse by the fact that 30% of my day is spent coding. The rest is working with co-workers on implementation details for projects and working project managers on time estimations & resource allocations. So, even the 30% of my day that I do get [...]

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Mobile: Flash Player 9 vs. Flash Lite 3

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Peter Elst had a good post updating us on the ecosystem of Flash on Mobile. His point about Flash Lite 3 vs. Tamarin-Tracing got me thinking.
As an American, I’m uber-confused on which VM to hedge my bets on. Do I continue writing components for Flash Lite in AS2 awaiting the day when I’ll actually [...]

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Going to MIX 2008

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I don’t think I made the business case. Rather, I think my uber-focused CTO wants to see visible proof of Silverlight 2 being a valid platform to build comparable front-ends for video & media players like we already do with Flash Player. So, we’re both hitting Las Vegas in March to attend MIX [...]

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Uploaded my source code for the FlightAware app shown in my last entry – source | ZIP. I’ve only done a little documentation; aka, on the header of each class. Keep in mind I wrote this in 20 blazing fast hours with no sleep, so ignore quality & practices. The only thing [...]

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