Category Archives: Shameless Self Promotion

New job! I’m now an ActionScript Developer at OpenSoft

By Alastair | April 16, 2008

After three years of consulting I’m heading back to a ‘real’ job as a Flash/Flex (mostly the latter) developer at OpenSoft (aka Farheap Solutions). It was a tough call but doing full time Flex work a mere 15 minute commute away was too good to pass up.
The blog, which was about 50/50 Ruby/Flex, will probably [...]

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Introducing ActionSnip

By Alastair | January 7, 2008

My new year’s resolution is to organize my ActionScript snippets, so I made a website to do just that actionsnip.com.
I know yes another snippet site, but none of the others highlight ActionScript properly. And because I don’t only collect snippets but blog posts about ActionScript as well there’s a feature called scraps which lets you [...]

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Vixiom Axioms is a year old!

By Alastair | July 31, 2007

Happy Birthday to me!
The actual anniversary was last week but I was in the Redneck Riviera on vacation.
My blog turning one is much less exciting than everything that’s happened since I started it. A year ago being an ActionScript developer on Rails was a lonely and frustrating time (so frustrating that my first post was [...]

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15 seconds of fame

By Alastair | July 11, 2007

There are too many candidates running for presnit in ‘08 so as a weekend project I made Whackapol to ‘thin’ down the field. After a mere two days online it got a mention on CNN last night.
***UPDATE***
Here’s a link to video of the segment (1:50 min in).

And you think someone ought to crack the candidate’s [...]

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Bring the noise!

By Alastair | March 11, 2007

Vixiom designs edgeacoustics.com (be sure to turn up your inferior speakers). A lot of sites claim to be multimedia but this is the real deal with audio, video, interactive elements, and some pretty complex ActionScript to make sure it all holds together. The 3D was done by our friends at SoftMirage.
Is your non-coding time in [...]

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The Ruby on Rails Rich Internet Application Software Development Kit by Adobe

By Alastair | October 5, 2006

Or RoRRIASDK, say that ten times fast!
The kit features six examples – and growing – of Flex/Fash with Ruby on Rails goodness including my Flash Remoting with Rails MP3 player tutorial. Big Ups to Mike Potter of Adobe for setting up the SDK and allowing me to contribute to it.
There’s also an Adobe PHP SDK [...]

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Calling All Flex/Flash and Ruby on Rails Developers

By Alastair | October 2, 2006

We have a ton of work right now and are looking for freelance Rails and Flex/Flash developers.
I’d prefer that you have a computer science/software engineering background but it’s not mandatory (I’m a self taught programmer so I know it’s possible).
One project is a very large ecommerce store (large in the number of products) and the [...]

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