I rarely jump on the blogging bandwagon when it comes to news that I know will spread like wild fire anyway, but I wanted to mark the occasion on my own site since this is so big. Ted Patrick has pointed out that the next version of Flex will be going open source. This is great news for a framework which I already felt was moving in the right direction with the release of a free SDK in version 2. Overall, I’ve been really happy with how things have been going for Flash since Adobe acquired Macromedia and I think Adobe has shown their commitment to the technology that they acquired as well as the commitment to the developers Macromedia has always had a great relationship with.
Archive for April, 2007
Gravis Footwear Flash Timeline
A project I worked on in the fall went live not too long ago. I’ve been meaning to post something about it and I plan to follow this up with another post regarding my use of the CASA Framework within the project. 
Gravis Footwear went through a redesign of their site and I worked on a small timeline piece which was built in Actionscript 2. It was a fun, little project which gave me a chance to do some Flash/AS2 work which I’ve been doing a lot less of since joining Allurent and working on Flex full-time.
After working with Actionscript 3 and Flex 2 for about a year now, I have to say I found the CASA Framework for Actionscript 2 extremely helpful. I always find it interesting when you leave a technology for a while, then come back with a fresh point of view. At my current job I’ve had the opportunity to gain a lot of experience in the area of application design and implementation and bringing that knowledge back to something like Flash and the timeline forces me to revisit my old habits and techniques for building applications in Actionscript 2. I noticed this same thing when I started playing around with FlashLite and had to revisit the Flash 4/Actionscript 1 language. I found that I had a fresh perspective on how I might have done things back in the day versus how I ended up doing them now in the same language.
I’ll post a follow-up regarding the parts of the CASA Framework I used soon. If you missed the link above, here’s a link to the Gravis Footwear timeline.
