Lately I’ve been working on preparing myself to take the Adobe Flex 2 Certification exam. I’ve always thought of myself as a Flash, not Flex developer, so this one was a bit of a challenge for me. For as much as I use it, there’s still a lot of things that I still don’t quite get.
So for the last few weeks leading up to my exam appointment, I’ve been cramming like crazy, and writing a lot of Flex code trying to learn and get as much studying in as I can.
Apparently, it paid off. I didn’t get as high of a score on the test as I had wanted to, but the important thing is that I passed. Plus, I now know a lot more about Flex 2 than I think I had ever initially planned on knowing. Of course, doing this reminded me that I never renewed my Flash MX2004 certifications for Flash 8 or CS3, so I think I’m going start working on those now…
Yesterday wasn’t exactly the greatest day of my life. My family had to make one of the hardest decisions anyone with a pet will ever make, and we put Boomer, our St. Bernard to sleep yesterday morning. He had been having some pretty serious health issues, and ever since our other dog “Allie” passed away a few years ago, he’s always seemed a bit lonely without her.
Taking care of a task like this can never be easy, but at least we were able to make it a little bit nicer for Boomer. My cousin is an animal control officer, and so rather than take care of things in a cold, empty vet’s office, we did it in the backyard, in the shade where Boomer liked to hang out. Once Boomer had passed, we buried him below the Maple tree in the back where he used to spend a lot of time napping, and rolling around in the mud.
Since my sister said it better, I’ll simply point you to read what she had to say, since it pretty much sums up everything I wanted to, but better.
Boomer Norman Buhler
Try to keep all of your fingers attached this weekend.
Just got back from seeing Indiana Jones 4 this afternoon with the rest of the mediaRAIN crew.
Indy rocked.
(I wasn’t exactly a huge fan of the ending, but I was more than satisfied with it.)
Fact 10
I’m changing jobs. I’ve been at Footnote.com for the last year or so, and it’s been a lot of fun. We worked on some cool stuff while I was there, and some of the stuff they’ve got cooking for the coming months is going to be great.
So why am I leaving?
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Footnote is currently looking for a Sr. Flash Developer. This person will be responsible for the architecture, maintenance, and implementation of new features for Flash-related content on Footnote.com, including our Document Viewer.
Qualifications
- Must have experience using Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0
- Work closely with the design team, and implement Flex skins based on design comps
- Strong understanding of OOP techniques
- Experience using XML in ActionScript
- JavaScript and PHP skills strongly recommended
- Understanding of and experience in Agile programming methods recommended
- Technical writing skills and the ability to document code appreciated
Salary Range:
Unspecified
Application Instructions:
Please email a copy of your resume and a cover letter to Scott Jackman - sjackman[AT]footnote.com
For the third or fourth time in the last week, I’ve caught myself trying to treat my iPod or cell phone as an additional display connected to my Mac. A few times it’s been because I wanted to skip a song on the iPod, so I moused over to the edge of my screen, and was slightly irritated when the cursor didn’t pass over to the iPod’s screen.
Today, it was my cell phone, because I had received a text message and I wanted to read it. Again, I tried mousing off of the edge of my screen to the phone’s, to read the message. I guess I’ve been spoiled by Teleport.
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Here are my results, how did you do?
Inspired by Jess’ excellent Apropos of Something blog, I’ll be sharing 100 facts about myself over the next 100 days. It’s part of my attempt to return to blogging, now that I’ll have at least one thing to post each day.
So, here we go…
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