FlexOOP

This should finish up my technical background and can get on with the good stuff.

After proving that I could actually program given something interesting to do, the web development company promptly offered me a position. It consisted of one man who had been working for himself for several years. I worked on all kinds of projects there, large and small, and was allowed to develop my skills in other ventures, not just ColdFusion. However after several years, I felt myself stagnating and not being challenged enough, so, once again, after getting bored, I decided I should look for something new. I had been looking into going towards something of a more OOP design, and needed somewhere that would allow someone with a self-taught CF background, to begin somewhat a-new but bringing all of the coding background along for the ride.

Enter my current company and Adobe Flex. I had no idea (before beginning the position) how much programming and OOP was involved in Flex and ActionScript. I thought that it was all just Flash (which I never thought of as anything more than a design program). After playing with Flex and ActionScript for a couple of weeks, I’ve got a whole new appreciation for it.  It has challenged me more than anything I’ve done so far, and forces me to rethink my previous procedural style of thinking every day. There always seems to be something that can be re-written better or more logically, or encapsulated to save time later. And on that point, I think this article just about sums up me, my programming, and a good portion of why I do what I do The Nerd Handbook (better than I could explain myself )

Anyway, if anyone actually made it this far, thanks for reading and hopefully I’ll have the time and patience (and the code) to post something helpful.