Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralAug 18th, 2008 | 3 Comments
Here I am! I’m presenting today at 360 Flex in San Jose. I’m only slightly nervous as this will be my first time presenting at a conference, but I’ve presented at user group meetings plenty and even practiced today’s preso with Rob Taylor, Tyler Wright, and Joe Snow over at their company offices.
I’ve had a very enjoyable time already at the speaker dinner last night and afterward at the mix-n-mingle. Met some great people such as Ben Stucki and Ryan Campbell, Paul Robertson, JOSH BUHLER! (wanted to make sure you were mentioned Josh ;), and Tony and Doug from Effective...
Posted by Jacob Wright in AIR, Applications, Layered ContentJul 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’ve had some time between jobs recently and been working on Layered Content. Layered Content is a website management system or web content management system (CMS). I’ve had a lot of fun over the past two years using it, architecting it, and planning it out. When I started I was determined to make a usable CMS, one that didn’t require training courses to use, one that wasn’t too simple that you couldn’t make the website you wanted. A big challenge, but one I felt needed to finally be addressed by somebody.
There have been a couple versions, the first was completely...
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJun 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments
I have been invited to speak at 360|Flex this year and am very excited. I will be presenting a level 400 (100 is beginner, 400 advanced) topic entitled Advanced ActionScript APIs. I’ll be talking about how to make your own advanced APIs.
We’ll go in-depth on using custom metadata and we’ll go over extending the proxy class to its fullest. My aim in this presentation is to bring about better APIs in the libraries people are putting out there. Of course, metadata and Proxy extension aren’t the answer and cure-all for this. But they are some of the cooler things you can do....
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJun 27th, 2008 | 5 Comments
I’m taking the big leap. Again. I’m leaving employmentship and going out on my own. Today is my last day working for mediaRAIN. Suck.
I’m planning on partnering with a friend, Jake Hilton, to provide heavy Flex development for local companies and media firms. We’re both top in the state in Flash, Flex, and Flash Media Server, so we should be able to provide a very nice offering. And we’ll be working on our own products as we find the time. Layered Content is my first priority along those lines and I hope to have a working version out in the next month.
mediaRAIN has...
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJun 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments
mediaRAIN Is by far the best company I have ever worked for. I absolutely love the environment and the people here. We get work done, we have fun, we play foos ball and computer games together, and we’re doing some way cool Flex/Flash projects all the time. All the people I work with are top notch individuals.
Well, mediaRAIN is hiring. We’re located in the Utah valley about a 10 minute drive from the Rocky Mountains, and we’re looking for a senior Flex developer. We want more gurus, experts, oh, and cool people. Here is our posted job description:
Salary dependent on experience:...
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJun 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Do you ever go back and look at code you wrote and think, “man, that’s pretty cool. I can’t believe how nice that turned out.”
I went back and wrote up some very minimal documentation on using AIRActiveRecord on my post about it and remembered how cool it is. True, more documentation would sure be nice, and I’ll get to that, eventually.
