For the past 6+ months I have been working full-time at Enterra Solutions, LLC as a Senior Software Developer. My primary role in the organization is designing the architecture of Rich Internet Applications utilizing Flex 1.5 and ActionScript 2.0. After many months of now stop Flex Development I must say that Flex is an awesome platform. I feel completely comfortable in the Flex IDE and I even prefer building applications in Flex these days. I prefer building websites in Flash but as far as serious application development I would choose Flex over Flash hands down.

My true passion is Object Oriented Programming in ActionScript and I see Flex as one more tool for outputting Flash content. Enterra Solutions is partners with Adobe so I have a foot in the door as far as new releases and developments pertaining to Flex, Flash and ActionScript. I spend most of my spare time building prototype applications in FLEX 2.0 / ActionScript 3.0 and I love it. I know that there are many Flash Developers who are not familiar with the Flex IDE and there is a very good transitional breeze seminar presented by Phil Heinz that was posted on the macromedia users group last month. This is a good start for developers looking to add Flex to there arsenal of Flash Platform tools.

Check out the following for an excellent intro to Flex for Flash developers: http://mmusergroup.breezecentral.com/p95561356/

If you have any Flex / Flash related questions feel free to contact me at eric@ericfeminella.com

Mike Tuero, Senior Technical Recruiter at Canyon Associates has a client located in Princeton, NJ with an immediate opening for a Senior Flash Developer.

The ideal candidate would be well versed in ActionScript 2.0, Object Oriented Application Development / RIA development as well possess additional skills in general front-end web technologies including xhtml, css, javascript etc.

For more information contact:

Mike Tuero
Senior Technical Recruiter
Canyon Associates
info@canyonsearch.com
1.732.404.5055

I packaged a quick and easy LoadManager API which I developed awhile back for handling preloading images and swf’s. The preloader works simply by passing in 3 arguments to a static method; the parent movieclip that you want to create the load container movieclip on, a preloading movieclip, and a string which is the swf or image url that you want to load. The LoadManager then returns a movieclip that the asset is loaded in.

Click here to download the source

I can’t begin to tell you how many projects I have worked on where there is literally NO documentation what-so-ever. And I am not without blame myself. Personally I try to avoid writting comments mixed in with my code and substitute comments with good, self explanatory naming conventions and clean code. This is good for me but someone else may not understand my code in detail. I have always liked the javadoc commenting style and even more importantly I have always been impressed with javadoc document generation.

So I did a quick search for ActionScript JavaDoc generators and found “Zen Doc”, an awesome JavaDoc Generator for ActionScript. I will begin using this personally and professionally and may possibly make it a standard for all codebase members.

Check it out at:
http://www.senocular.com/

Check out the Demo;
http://www.senocular.com/projects/ZenDoc/index.php