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Recruiting Developers in London
October 23rd, 2008
Thought I would share this list that we have compiled of good places to post if you are looking for developers in London:
jobsite.co.uk - £299 (+vat) / 2 weeks
cwjobs.com - £195
reed.co.uk - £50 (+vat)
creativepool.co.uk - £220 / 28 days
actionscript.org - $150 / 2 weeks (for freelancers)
thefwa.com - £58.75 / 30 days
krop.com - $200 / 30 days
theitjobboard.co.uk - £550
london.digital-jobs.org/ - Free
Let me know if you find any more!
Flex Camp London open for registration!
August 8th, 2008
We are giving a hand running Flex Camp London 08, check it out:
Flex Camp London 08 is a FREE, community-run event for everyone interested in Adobe Flex! Whether you’re just getting started with Flex or you’re an expert, Flex Camp aims to provide something for you.
We’ve lined up some of the most experienced Flex developers in the UK who will share their knowledge on everything from creating your first application, connecting to data, creating components and development best practices through to selecting an application framework for larger projects.
Flex Camp will also include a panel discussion, provide an opportunity for you to show off what you’re building in the Show & Tell open session and let you meet up with other developers to talk about Flex. We’ve also got some great prizes to give-away throughout the day, including a ticket to Adobe MAX in Milan, Adobe software and Flex training courses from Academy Class.
Flex Camp is on August 28th, 2-8pm at Conway Hall, London WC1 - register today at http://ria.meetup.com…
This is a FREE event, but you must be registered to attend and names will be taken at the door.
See you there!
First post from the new iPhone wordpress app
July 23rd, 2008
Wordpress have just launched an iPhone app that I’m testing right here, right now! I think I could get used to this. Go to the App Store and do a search for Wordpress to find it.
Adobe releases Flex 3 and Air
February 26th, 2008
We have all been using for them for ages, but Adobe has finally released Flex 3 and Air. This is a huge release for the company, and solidifies their position at the forefront of the ever changing RIA landscape. Get them now!!!
No more need for developers…
February 1st, 2008
Soon there will be no need for developers in the world of multimedia content for the web as Sprout Builder is soon to be released some time (the home age doesn’t give a date but I’m sure its some time in the future)
The site says that the builder allows novice and advanced users the “quick and easy creation of sophisticated multimedia content†there is also a video giving a quick overview of it’s features, it looks like there are some nice sharing and managing features.
I think it’s either created in flash or more likely Flex but the site doesn’t say.
On the other side I don’t think this will replace developers for of multimedia content for the web completely as I’m sure it’s limited and will provide a tool for people with very little knowledge to produce absolute rubbish, designers might be able to make some decent content or just prototypes.
Long live developers!
Flash Player 10 - Astro
October 25th, 2007
Someone kindly videoed a portion of the Abobe MAX conference in Chicago - where they were exhibiting a sneak peak of what is in the next generation player to come out. Some really cool features seem to be in there, and ones that makes sense to be too. They seem to be working on their own answer to PaperVision by adding a z axis, although - no where a near where PaperVsion is now - but definitely delivering for the high demand of 3D environments.
Another cool feature that they have created is the ability to float text over many text box’s, just as if you were in InDesign, a solution that will bring a new layout to flash text through out the world.
They talk about some other stuff too - check out the video:
London Flex User Group Meeting
October 14th, 2007
A big thakyou to everyone involved in the meeting at Poke last week. We have had some really good feedback over the last few days. We’ll get some photos up soon, you can read a review here from Marc Hibbins.
Media Temple down again…
October 9th, 2007
The whole of Media Temple was down this morning, they had to take down their firewall for a few minutes so every service to every site was down. Anyone else noticing these outages?
Shameless Recruitment post.
July 12th, 2007
I’ll keep it short, we are after a junior Flex Developer.
I know you’re out there.
Somewhere.
Perhaps your a Java guy looking to get into Flex.
Don’t worry.
We’ll train you.
And feed you.
Please email us at jobs (at) emakmafu.com
10 Reasons why Silverlight will fail (in the short term).
July 12th, 2007
1. It’s very uncool. Since when has a Microsoft product been exciting? And their touch technology doesn’t count, they nicked it off Jeff Han.
2. Something else to learn, please, I’ll have a brain overload if I try and take anything else on board.
3. It’s not open source. Flex is. End of story.
4. Flash diehards will never switch.
5. Java diehards definitely won’t switch.
6. I can’t install it.
7. Adobe have all the best people in the industry working for them.
8. It’s not pre-installed on any OS.
9. It has no distribution channel/penetration.
10. You can’t develop on a mac, you have to develop on .net which costs $$$$ (surprise surprise)!
And one reason why it might not fail over time: cash… Microsoft will pump billions into this until it works and they don’t care if they loose money on it for 10 years, just like they are doing with the XBox.