New job and Adobe Flex

Things have been quiet on the blog front but lots has been happening on other fronts. I can catch you up in about three paragraphs. Here goes.

I switched jobs! I left my job as Web Developer at 3000k, a small web shop in Worcester, about three weeks ago to join Meridias Capital. The Meridias Capital public site is a bit sparse so let me fill you in. The company is a mortgage finance lender centered out of Las Vegas with a secondary office in Salt Lake City. They have a couple of enterprise-level web apps that help faciliatate the mortgage finance process internally. This is where I come in.

I’ll be working out of Boston with Michael Lowry, Director of UI, to architect, design, and build the UI for these apps. I was hired for my traditional front-end skills: XHTML, XML, CSS, JS, etc. but soon after my arrival there was a strong push to investigate Adobe Flex. After some research and prototyping we came to the conclusion that Adobe Flex was a better solution for our RIA then a traditional HTML/AJAX approach. So we have cast off into a brave new world!

Note: We will be looking at add another member to our small Boston UI team shortly. If you have Flex experience or experience developing web apps with Flash, drop me a note. We will post proper details on the opening shortly.

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  2. Flex is great, beta tested it myself, had it’s headaches and joys. Goodluck in your venture.

     

  6. I’m a Flex developer at a South Florida search advertising company. I’ve been doing it for a while now, and if you need any help with anything or extra (remote) help, let me know.

     

  7. … hope you go not to extrem commercial buisness company,ok you are go straight your way,think about the excellent produkt Lightbox and see what is going on with Linux,Example Ubuntu,so much Open Source production.The way to go is an excellentfine product to present for users,that what you did along time.The important for you is find out the way to produce for a company with creative moments or in this time where you are with yourself,i think you are have more inspiration and creative moments in this time.
    But ok,find your way…. the Tool Lightbox Gallery Creator was a possitive feedback and is it again in many Freeware websites….thank you for your absolute cool website-gallery programing LIGHTBOX
    and I wish you the best for new functions and jobs in the new environment.

     

  12. good luck. i hope you’ll update us about your experiments with flex :)

     

  15. yo lokesh! i got here whilst browsing wordpress themes. pete swan showed me yor lightbox app. small world. hope things are going well. xo eliz

     

  17. sparsed is the right word – they even left out the eyes of the guy on the mid-left pic ;)
    gratz&greez

     

  19. i also recently moved jobs to an almost strictly Flex dev environment. very cool stuff.

     

  20. I’ve been checking out Flex for a few weeks now. I think it is really awesome and the best AJAX, or should I say AAAX? :) I think it is definitely work learning!

     

  21. Hey Lokesh,

    How’s the new job treating you? I hope you’re having a great time there.
    Anyway, in regards to RIAs, I’ve also been using OpenLaszlo too. I find it very quick and easy to use on collaborative projects. One example of its use is in clockthat (webnotes) application I did for my employers, Fotango. You can see this at: http://service.zimki.com/user/pinboard/

    The platform for the back-end (www.zimki.com) is also a great timesaver.

    Keep up the great work.

     

  23. I need a consultant Flex Developer for a 3-4 month gig – they must live in Florida or Boston – if interested send your resume to cporter@aptude.com

    they also need to have Air and Coldfusion & SQL experience would be a plus