More Merapi news - Dave Meeker is on

Dave is joining the team on more of the business strategy / user experience angles for Merapi. He just released a nice post today as an overview of what Merapi will be aimed at.. check it out here.

LFFS - 4: Actionscript 3.0 (Part 1)

Our latest post in the Inside RIA series "Learning Flex from Scratch" is up. It's called: LFFS - 4: Actionscript 3.0. In this post Scott begins his journey into the syntax of Actionscript 3.0. This first post is a look at how to write a basic class... posts will follow with examples on writing loops, if-then conditionals and more..

stay tuned
-adam

An open call for Designers

Universal Mind has growing need to offer design services to customers in conjunction with our industry leading Rich Internet Application development. If you are a designer that loves RIAs, user experience, bleeding-edge internet technology, information architecture, and Adobe's creative suite, we'd like to talk to you.

Universal Mind is an Inc. 500 company whose founders have a strong background in technology and professional services. We are a distributed company that has employees and contractors on staff across the country. Our distributed nature makes us very nimble. Each of our consultants is equally skilled at working from their home office as they are going on-site to work closely with a customer's development, design, product, or project management teams. We're also not new to the Flex/RIA game. The companies founders have ties all the way back to the days of Allaire Cold Fusion consulting. Our relationship with Adobe is strong and our customers love the experience of working with UM teams.

If you think have you what it takes to join our stellar team, please send over a resume and most importantly a portfolio. Feel free to contact me at [adamflater at gmail dot com] if you have any questions or submit your stuff directly to [jobs at universalmind dot com].

There are a few of us in the Denver metro area now and would be really excited to meet some great people locally or people who would like to relocate to Denver, but if you're settled in somewhere that suits you geographically that's not a problem.

By the way, we're pretty fun too, check out what Doug McCune has to say about being a Universal Mind employe: Doug's Blog.

360|Flex Atlanta Survey Results

I thought I'd mirror Tom and John's style of being transparent about 360|Flex and share the survey results of my talk.

Thanks to everyone that gave feedback. I'll be giving a 2.0 version of this talk at Flex Maniacs in May and feedback from attendees is really helpful to know what to polish.

If you were at my talk and didn't have to time to give feedback, feel free to comment here or send me an e-mail off-line. I'd love to hear about how to make this talk more usefull.

thanks
-adam



Results for your session, enjoy.

Advanced Skinning and Component Development

Respondants: 7
What the user Expected? 71.43 %
Slides Useful: 71.43 %
Average Rating: 4.4286
Session Informative? 71.43 %

Was the speaker authoritive?

Very good presentation, had materials available for us to download

Knows his stuff. Great talk, good pace.

Was the Session Informative?

Hadn't really done skinning - very cool functionality

Useful step-by-step demos!

Were the Slides Useful?

Great reference slides.

Love the slides and the examples on how to skin in Flash. I will definately be using them in the future.

Additional Comments:

well done