// Commented Out

2009 has been the best year of my pro­fes­sional career. In 2009, my name has become known within the Flash Plat­form com­mu­nity and I couldn’t be more hum­bled. This post is not a show piece by any means. This is merely a per­sonal reflec­tion and pub­lic thank you to all who have helped me this year. I'm lis­ten­ing. Go on…

I’m going to pref­ace this post with a few things. First, I am not a closet Sil­verlight devel­oper. I’m also not a firestarter. With regards to some recent talk about whether or not Microsoft’s pres­ence should be allowed at Flash con­fer­ences, I have no involve­ment or say. I don’t want to start an Adobe vs Microsoft flame war, because hon­estly, it’s played out already, and I’ll leave that up to the tech tabloids. I am how­ever, a devel­oper and a UX designer, which means that I love think­ing of ways to make every­thing bet­ter, more struc­tured, and more usable. That includes IDEs I work in, but also IDEs I’m not work­ing in. I'm lis­ten­ing. Go on…

Awhile back, I posted about the Typog­ra­phy of my Action­Script. At the time, I had no idea there was real sup­port for chang­ing edi­tor col­ors in Eclipse. Since the pub­lic beta 2 of Flash Builder 4 at announced at MAX, I’m happy to report that this has finally changed! As far as I know, the sup­port is added in Eclipse 3.4,  but don’t hold me to that. I actu­ally stum­bled across these set­tings by acci­dent in the Flash Builder pref­er­ences. Right now these options are spread out between the Flash Builder syn­tax col­or­ing pref­er­ences and the default Eclipse edi­tor set­tings in a few places. It can be kind of con­fus­ing, but that’s what I am aim­ing to help you avoid hav­ing to deal with. I'm lis­ten­ing. Go on…

I con­firmed with Elad Elrom ear­lier today that I have been added to the speak­ers list for the Flash and the City con­fer­ence in New York City, May 14–16, 2010! Have you seen this speaker list?!  Take a minute, and look at it. The peo­ple on this list are some of the peo­ple who lit­er­ally built our indus­try and the Flash com­mu­nity. And now, I am blessed enough to share a podium with the likes of such Flash great­ness. I still can’t believe it. GIGANTIC thanks goes to Elad and Jesse Free­man (a.k.a The Flash Bum) for putting together an absolutely elite list of speak­ers and event. Some­body pinch me! [Ed. note: Don’t actu­ally pinch me, I bruise eas­ily ]
I'm lis­ten­ing. Go on…