In The Middle of Adobe MAX 2008
It’s Tuesday Morning here in San Francisco. I’m sitting by a defender arcade game listening to a conversation of AIR and Flex Data service development and sipping coffee. So far, the conference has provided some great sessions. Right now is a great time to to be a Flash/Fex/AIR Developer. Adobe is providing more food for the community, almost too much. If you’re not hungry, if you’re not an Actionscript fan-boy, It may become hard to keep up with all that is happening. This is both good and bad.
Since the release of Actionscript 3 we’ve seen a split in the Flash community mostly between those who code and those who don’t. Now with Flex, AIR and all the services that extend them, there is yet another narrowing of skill requirements. This is great because now the Flash Developer is really becoming defined while still being able to provide a wide range of solutions to those in need. The bad news is, the narrower the community gets, the less Adobe will pay attention to it.
My strategy is to find a niche as a Flash Developer. Find your process and master the pieces needed to go from concept to completion. But always strive to keep up with what is going on around Adobe and around the Flash community.
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-Andrew
