After a seemingly eternal wait, I’m happy to annouce I’ve now begun my research break. I’ve stepped down from day to day duties as a developer at Subversive for the time being, and am generally on a hiatus from freelance work. Additionally this semester I’m not teaching. I’ll be free to give my undivided attention to new and exciting things that I’ve been waiting to look into.
First thing on the cards is to brush up on my PHP and back-end coding. My experiences in working over the last year have highlighted how valuable it would be to have flash dev + php dev knowledge; providing a rounded web app development skillset. After that, I can finally dive into the world of Actionscript 3. Collin Moock’s Essential Actionscript 3.0 is finally shipping from Amazon, and I got my copy the other week, horrah! The possibilities in Actionscript are extremely interesting - when you combine a collosal installed userbase (85%+ of users online have Flash 9 so far), with a huge advance in code execution speed and capabilities, there is huge potential.
I look forward to posting about my research!