Sam's occasional tech thinkings

Lazy sammy

Wow, been a while since I did this!

Since March (when I last posted) I’ve had a rather busy time.  I have settled into my new Job at LBi (not that new anymore, I started in February 08) and have finally moved to London.. so no more moaning about First Great (really not very great) Western!

Here are some brief highlights:

Getting published by adobe
Seems someone did read my blog after all (though probably not anymore as I have been a little quiet) as I was contacted by adobe after they read my blog and asked me to write an article… you can read it here.  Not sure its very good to be honest… and I might have some different things to say if I were writing it now, but I guess thats all part of the learning process.  Mostly I was just flattered that asked!

Building some cool apps
Things have been going well at LBi, and I have been lucky enough to work on fairly awesome apps… probably the most exciting has been a platform game for Centrica.  We had a team of 5 actionscript developers working on it, and I think there are somewhere in the region of 1000 class files making it up, so it was no small feat!  Its a PureMVC application, with the physics engine Box2D providing the core of the game engine. Check it out here

Speaking at FlexCamp
We use PureMVC to build all our apps in the RIA team at LBi, consequently we’ve ended up knowing a fair bit about it.  We got a chance to share some of that experience at FlexCamp the other month.  I presented along with Justin Clark (me boss) on the basics of creating Flex applications with PureMVC.  I was pretty nervous… but I think it went well, and we did get some good feedback on the day.

phew… I think there may be more, but I’m hungry! so think its time I signed off and shut up