Intoxo Poxed has a post on procedural coding in AS3 in which the author states:

OOP is swell and all, but I feel procedural coding still has its place. This is particularly true when you’re not entirely sure what you’re about to make, or when you have a problem to which you haven’t yet worked out a full solution but are ready to stab at it one bite at a time.

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I just read that the company Mike Britton was working for just fired their entire staff. I haven't met Mike in real life but I do know him from the Arp mailing list, where he is very active. He's also built his blog using Arp and is now reworking it in Flex 2 and ActionScript 3. One of my main criteria when hiring developers is how active they are in the community and how passionate they are about what they do. Mike appears to have those bases covered.

If you're looking for a Flash/Flex developer with advanced ActionScript knowledge and with experience in pattern-based development, take a look at Mike's resume (direct PDF link) and get in touch with him.

ROTFL -- these aren't the official ones! :)

My latest obsession is a shoe. Not just any shoe, but a Heelys. On paper, it's a shoe with a wheel in its heel. In practice, it's the most fun I've had since I first learned to skateboard!

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I read on Ben's blog that registration for the Adobe Max 2006 conference is now open. I was approached earlier this year to give a talk at Max on Flex and PHP -- a topic that I would have loved to cover, especially considering that Arp now has migration classes to handle AMF0 via the open source AMFPHP remoting gateway. However, I had to sadly turn Adobe down. Why? Because Adobe Max has a policy of not paying for speaker's travel expenses or accomodation for the event. Instead, as a thank-you, speakers receive free entrace to the conference. That's a good thing as otherwise they would have to pay at the door so they could enter to present their sessions.

I don't know about you, but this is not what I expect from a professional conference and this is not an industry norm when you look at other professional conferences like FlashForward, FITC, Spark Europe, Multi-Mania and Flash on the Beach. The problem is not that I cannot afford to pay for a flight to the US or for a few nights accomodation at the Venetian (a lovely hotel that Microsoft kindly put us up in for Mix '06 earlier this year and one that I will definitely be visiting again in any case.) It's just that I refuse to do so as a matter of principle. Here's why:

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