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By: Flex and Flash Developer - Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm » Blog Archive » State of the Flash & Flex Developer Market for 2009

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:45:12 +0000

[…] Last year’s was positive. Â This year’s is negative. Â This is one of the worst March’s I’ve seen since 2002. Â Granted, back then we we’re stillÂ reelingÂ from the dot-com-bomb as well as 9/11 and no one knew me back then. Â Many of us on Twitter were mocking the “recession” back in December, countering “What recession?” and citing tech blogs that mentioned how the tech sector won’t be as badly affected as other industries as well as the continued influx of work. […]

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By: Ariel Sommeria

Ariel Sommeria — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:30:56 +0000

Hi,
I’m based in Paris and at least here things are showing no signs of slowing down in the Flash/Flex department.
As for the hybrids thing: hybrids are in short supply everywhere, but being a hybrid is also difficult because it makes you hard to put in a category. What Adobe could do is improve the workflow between the developers and designers, because these 2 separate profiles will always exist in the foreseeable future. At the moment very little is done along those lines. A few open source projects try to address this, but there’s still a long way to go.
Ariel

By: Jeffry Houser

Jeffry Houser — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:41:57 +0000

“A sign economic times are â€œturning around for the betterâ€ is when companies start contracting out work again.”

I’m not sure I agree with this. Subcontractors / vendors fall under a different budget line item than employees. As the economy goes south, a lot of [public] companies let people go (because Wall Street thinks that is good). However, the work still needs to be done so they shift around the money to vendors / contractors. It gives such companies more favorable annual reports.

That is why consulting companies tend to thrive in a down economy.

Of course, I can’t being to speculate how the actions of private companies parallel public companies. As a business owner, I’ve had slow times and busy times. I can’t attribute either directly to the economy, though.

By: Randy Troppmann

Randy Troppmann — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:21:21 +0000

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing Jesse!

@Phillip … Jesse really sets the bar high for so-called hybrids but now add plumbing???? That’s too much for one human!