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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.

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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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The Gaia Beta was released today by a friend of mine, Steven Sacks. Gaia is a Flash framework created for Flash Designers & Developers who create Flash sites. The reason this is an important is that it now supports ActionScript 3 and Flash CS3.
Discussions
I must of racked up at least $500 in cell […]

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A Flash G Talks about Silverlight

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

At Mix n Mash 2k7, I was interviewed by Nishant Kothary from Microsoft to talk about Silverlight and Flash Player for 10 minutes. It’s kind of quiet with ambient noise so use head phones, or blast your volume.
That’s “G” for Gansta’, not Guru; I do not impart wisdom, rather I lay da funk!
A […]

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When You Hit a Design Brick Wall in Flex…

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

…code it your bloody self. But first, weigh the consequences. I’m referring specifically to when you have a design that you are trying desperately to shoe-horn into the Flex components. Key phrase here being “shoe-horn”, meaning it doesn’t fit quite right.
A lot of designs can have specific elements that can be extremely […]

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