Amongst other cool happenings at the Budding Talent Night #2 for the LA Flash User Group this evening, is Steven Sacks ‘ presentation on Gaia , the framework for building Flash sites uber-quickly. I managed to get a run through of his preso last night and was really impressed. I’ve talked, offered advice, and even contributed a tiny portion of sample code to Steven for Gaia, but still learned a ton from his talk.
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LA Flash User Group: Gaia Presentation Tonight
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Consulting Interviews: Getting Through Recruiters
The first part of consulting is having the initial meeting with the client. Using the Consulting Process, you identify the client’s problem, and determine if you are capable of fixing it. Not currently being with a firm causes me to scout for work (pouring through a TON of emails and phone calls, not all leading to work). A lot of time, I have to go through recruiters, and find the whole process a waste of time, especially when I learn the client wants a full-time & on-site W2 employee and is not at all interested in a telecommuting contractor, needs another skill set, or I cannot fit them into my schedule.
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Back in the Consulting Game
I put in my 2 weeks notice 3 weeks ago at Multicast Media Technologies, a Live and On Demand Online Video company here in Atlanta. I was originally hired as a Flex Consultant back in March of 2007. I had taken a 3 month sabbatical to find a product company that jived with my goals, but mostly to play XBox for 2 1/2 months. After that, my wife and I jetted to Sydney, Australia so we could both speak at WebDU 2007 (she got the bigger room). I was pretty re-charged to do some Flex work that March. I even got the opportunity to don the khakis and do some on-site client consulting in California. About 5 months into it, they offered me a W2 position, and I accepted. I still kept the flip-flops.
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Found a Use Case for flash.utils.Proxy
Really edge case here, but hey, it’s something.
Background
In creating a Vidego API (video content management API) example in Flash CS3, I ran into problems making an AS3 version from the AS2 version. Flash CS3 doesn’t haven an Accordion component, so I went about using a List instead. My problem with the List in CS3 compared to Flex is that it “expects” the data to have certain properties on it. If your data doesn’t have those properties, it throws an exception. Um… ok… :: face palm :: Yes, I know labelField/labelFunction, but those should be opt-in, especially when you’ve already set a cellRenderer.
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