Comments on: Who are the most influential Flashers today?

By: TroyWorks

TroyWorks — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:23:25 +0000

Some of my favorites, and lucky enough to consider some as friends:
Robert Reinhardt http://www.themakers.com/
Joey Lott http://www.person13.com/wordpress/
Sam Rivello http://www.blog.rivello.org/
Eric Natzke
Nicholas Cannasee
Sam Wan
Keith Peters

**shameless plug** Myself at times. http://www.troyworks.com/blog/

By: Scott Barnes

Scott Barnes — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:03:33 +0000

Branden Hall & Joshua Davis.

They aren’t as vocal as a lot of the influeners, but when they do speak you can’t but help and listen. That and they have a habit of backing their ideas with code / creation.

Grants also premo good.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:13:07 +0000

Sticking with Max about almost all of his choices. Maybe adding Mario Klingemann. If its about flash. I think the biggest influence in my life has been given by the guys from springframework.org (Java… but hey!) especially Juergen Hoeller.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:44:40 +0000

I guess I’m a bit old school – Branden Hall and Sam Wan all the way, the godfathers of OOP with ActionScript

By: Sventunus

Sventunus — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:25:46 +0000

I really have to stand up for my Belgian friends, amongst whom some amazing coders:

-Nicolas Lierman @ http://www.aboutnico.be/
-Christophe Herreman @ http://www.herrodius.com/blog/

These 2 guys eat Flex for breakfast, check out their amazing stuff.

By: Odders

Odders — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:55:34 +0000

My top 3 for sure would be:

Darron Schall (http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/)
Grant Skinner (http://www.gskinner.com/blog/)
Aral Balkan (http://aralbalkan.com/)

When I think about, there developers that I do have more respect for, but I have learnt the most from the above people. This would make a cool poll, although there is a lot of people that would need to be chucked in there :P

By: Bazard

Bazard — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:15:49 +0000

Personally here is my list and their areas:

Most of all Francis Bourre (OOP)
Mike Chambers (From Flash Generator to now)
Nicolas Cannasse (MTASC/HaXe)
Grant Skinner (Blog’s of wonders)
Thibault Imbert (PDF/Gif/ByteArray)

By: Jason The Saj

Jason The Saj — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:56:57 +0000

I’d list the following:

1) Doug McCune is always insightful and cutting edge. He’s that guy riding a big wave that just makes you go “Cooool!”

2) Ely Greenfield though often quiet seems to put out some some big ripples periodically.

3) David Coletta – can I say that he’s got a bit of a fatherly feel to him? Maybe it’s the fact he’s a bit older. His blogs have an essence of maturity. And he deals with a lot of the nuts’n'bolts’ but with an almost shepherdly feel.

4) Mike Chambers – the news from Adobe source. Just seems that I hear it first from this guy.

I’m not sure about a 5th. And I am sure there are others I have yet to discover.

By: Lee McColl Sylvester

Lee McColl Sylvester — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:22:03 +0000

Yeah, you’ve a point there. I used to work with an Australian guy, Jeremy Hoare, back in the days of Flash 3 / 4, and he could animate the hell out of anything, make it look like it belonged in a film exhibition, and produce it overnight. I wonder what happened to him?

By: Fernando Comet

Fernando Comet — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:11:10 +0000

Mmmmm,
I am not sure, but all these people are developers, aren´t they?

I look for inspiration from Design flash sites.
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