FlashApe

what a crazy year this has been for me professionally. I started off the year at Heavenspot, where I have been for the past few years. For a long while I had been growing a littel frustrated with the work there…maybe not so much the work as there was not really any growth potential. I was trying to push myself more into flash application development, but being a design studio mostly geared towards the entertainment industry, there was barely a chance really for me to use things like arp/amfphp etc…it was overkill. And there was about zero chance that I’d be getting any chance to work with Flex.

So right about the time it was really starting to wear on me, a friend of mine who has another studio here in L.A.got in touch and asked me if I’d like to come in. Now, it was a hard decision for me, because even though i was frustrated at Heavenspot, I still felt loyal to there, being that I was there from the beginning. I decided to go meet witht hem and after about an hour (and a little bit of sake) later, we felt like it was a good fit, and I made the jump over to the new place.

While I was there I got to things I really never got a chance to do in my flash development career, the biggest thing being really getting to work with component-based application development. (right about the same time I started there, the book Advanced Actionscript Components came out, which made everything gel real nice). Wound up putting together some pretty decent apps, some of which may get open-sourced here shortly, if I can get the time.

Well, after about about two months into the new job, the work available at the new place dried up real quick due to circumstances beyond their control, and I was low man on the totem pole.

Now, a few years ago, this would have affected me differently. But luckily, by now I had built up a pretty good client list of my own over the years, and just from having my name out there on sites like actionscript.org I am constantly getting new job contacts. So, I took the opportunity to do something else I’ve really been wanting to do for a while, and thats going into business on my own…so I went ahead and formed F1 Flash Development.

So far, everything’s been working out great. Now, I hope to get back into the scene a little bit as posting a little more often again and jumping back into the various mailing lists.  It’s funny how much i’ve missed that.