Flex Journey
An Adobe Flash guy for many years I ignored the advent of Adobe Flex for a long time. I felt it was just another product to achieve the same results that anyone with Flash and Actionscript skills could accomplish.
To make the story short, I landed an 11 month contract with Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks etc. in Mountain View, CA. I started work with an engineering team on fancy next generation payroll software all done in Flex. Move over Flash, make some room for Flex. Once again I found the best way to get good at something quickly is to get thrown into the deep end and learn to swim.
Needles to say I feel different about Flex now and feel good about my new capabilities. I can quickly ascertain whether a project should be done in Flash or Flex or both.
In hindsight, I see that ignoring Flex made me the very thing I dislike. Unwillingness to keep an open mind and keep moving forward.
I wish I could post some sort of demo or pics from the project, but I cannot.
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Artbox Portfolio Manager
Artbox.com launched a few weeks back. The site is an online toolbox to help you to produce, promote and sell your works. My part was to build a works organizer in Flash. The tool can view images, audio, video and text works. It allows you to manage your work into sets, add keywords and set permissions etc. You will have to sign up in order to see it in action.
Artbox Portfolio Manager
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American Idol® Elimination Game
A few weeks ago we were contracted to build
http://idolelimination.americanidol.com. The object, to let someone possibly win one million dollars if they could predict the exact elimination sequence of the final 24 American Idol® hopefulls.
The proccess is like this:
Person buys Nestlé candy bar with the American Idol® logo on it. Inside the wrapper is a game code.
Person goes to the site and signs up for a free account, logs in and enters the code into their codebank. There is no limit to the amount of codes they can store but can only create one new bracket per email address per code per day.
Person creates a new bracket in the American Idol® Elimination Flash Game and saves it. There is a time window in witch the person can come back and make edits to the bracket.
Process is simple enough. Developing, as you can imagine was a little more involved. Screenshots here.
