Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Speaking October 24th, 2006 at MAX

    I’ll be speaking at 4:15pm on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 at Adobe’s MAX conference in Las Vegas. This conference will focus mainly on Adobe technology such as ColdFusion, Flex, Flash, Flash Lite, etc. I will be speaking about using Flex and Flash together to create more engaging, branded, and overall cooler looking Flex applications by using Flash with Flex.

    If you are a Flex developer, you’ll see what else is possible beyond a cross-browser, cross-platform predictable programming playback engine; a cross-browser, cross-platform design predictable playback engine. If you are a Flash Designer, you’ll see what’s possible in Flex from a design perspective. I plan to show examples of Flex CSS, skinning, SWF embedding & loading as well as utilizing Flash 9 (Blaze) assets via ActionScript 3 classes.

    You can schedule your session via a Flex interface or an HTML one. See yaz.

  • Job: Flash Designer & Flash Developer

    I need a Flash Designer and a Flash Developer to work with me, onsite in Detroit, Michigan, USA for about 2 weeks; potentially more. If you are a Flex Developer, that may be do-able. Remote work is not a possibility. The sooner you can start, the better. If available, hit me up.

  • Post Flexseminar

    Strip club outside my hotel windowBack in Detroit, flown in from New York, trying in vain to wrap up some loose business ends before tomorrow. My project up here officially starts Tuesday, so it’ll be an all out assault on coding as much as possible as fast as possible.

    I gotta say, I had a lot of fun at the Flexseminar Sys-Con put together. Things went, for me, really smoothly. Registration, getting internet at the booth, and hooking up with my team. Free coffee was readily available, so I was set. It’s always great because at every conference, I always get to put faces to people I’ve known online & collaborated with for years. I also get to meet new people and hopefully leak some of my passion to them and hopefully inspire them to want to create cool apps with Flex. I also got to rant via an interview; any excuse to talk about technology is fun.

    Unfortunately, I had no idea I was in Manhattan. Things move so fast lately I just assumed I was going to some hotel in New York. I had no clue I was like… in THE Manhattan. What an idiot.

    To spare the details, I basically had to go through 3 laptops in 15 minutes to get my presentation started. Since the laptop didn’t have the apps I needed on it setup, I just breezed through an abbreviated version of my slides in 30 minutes. Thanks Jeremy Geelan & Dave Wolfe for the laptops. My test run with the Atlanta Adobe User’s Group went to about an hour and a half, so naturally I talked at moch-2, and skipped some of the lower level Flash SWF integration slides. I’ll upload my full powerpoint later this week for those who didn’t get to the see the main 6 I removed.

    Really great answering questions, really great meeting new people, and cool to talk albeit briefly about what people are working on; it’s always fun. Thanks a lot Sys-Con, it was a great seminar! Hopefully your audeince is inspired to at least investigate what it would take to get an information architect / designer on some of their existing software engineering teams if they don’t already have one.

    I’m working on getting the design rights to the design I’m using to build my real-time YouTube clone, so hopefully I can not only share the source this October, but also some of the nitty gritty FLA’s and SWF’s that I used to integrate such a complicated, traditional Flash design, into Flex.

    Thanks to those who came, and again, thanks Sys-Con for the invite to speak, much appreciated.

    BTW, one other dude asked for contractors… not sure who, but I can send my contacts I know if you email me.

    …and back to the grind.

  • Flex in New York @ Flexseminar

    ATT00241.jpgI’m sitting at the Universal Mind table in the Roosevelt hotel. The place is pretty packed. Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits. Darron Schall of CF64 & FlashVNC fame and Todd Cieplinski are engaging various passerbys about the cool Flex work we do next to me. I’ve finally met Dave Wolfe of Cynergy Systems in person, albeit briefly. Grant Straker all the way from New Zealand is at an adjacent table; I had no clue he was gonna be here. He’s the dude that gave us the phat pocket knives at MXDU 2005; that was the best conference gift ever.

    I have a Flash 7 project officially starting up in Detroit tomorrow so have to leave at 4pm to make my flight. New York traffic is just like Atlanta! I feel so at home. Manhattan was beautiful from the sky last night; I unconciously mouthed “wow…” before the pilot came on the overhead mentioned that it was off to the left.

    While everyone was celebrating Flash’ 10 year birthday last couple weeks, I was busy using it. Feel kind of bad not taking the time to celebrate a technology vs. using it, but I DID manage to do a Breeze presentation near the birthday. To me, it’s appropriate to utilize Flash to bring people together from across the country to discuss… Flash. What better way to celebrate Flash’ birthday than to use it to network with others in disparate geographic locations for learning, and social interaction for the betterment of mankind? Pimp!

    Anyway, consolation is I can use Flash 8, and save as MX 2004, hehe. Hopefully in the next couple of months I can start using Flex 2 professionally. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll always love the speed of development AS2 can give you, but Flex 2 apps are more fun right now because it’s so fresh and new. They are about to start so I wanna at least see the keynote since I’ll try my best to be a good “booth boy” the rest of the day. Wish you were here.