“What’s your coding history?” – An Interview Question

I was recently asked these questions about my programming history, and when I found my response rather verbose I figured I would share with a few more folks…

What’s your coding history? When did you start, and what have you done between then and now?

Academics

I started programming in the late 70’s in BASIC on TRS80 (which we lovingly referred to as “trash 80’s”. I never did the punch card thing but all of my programming teachers had and loved to tell us how much easier things were for us.

July 2, 2013

in ActionScript , Flash , Flex 4 , video by Fuad Kamal

Getting Started in OSMF (part 3): Closed Captioning

The OSMF project I was building for my client required closed captioning. Now, back in the pre-Flex days, I had created a video mashup application in Flash that included closed captioning capabilities. For some reason, I vaguely recall that being less of a headache than the recent effort to do it in OSMF.Continue reading

July 1, 2013

in ActionScript , Adobe , Flash , Flex 4 , open source , RIA , video by Fuad Kamal

Getting Started OSMF (Part 2)

In Part 1 we briefly looked at some documentation and references for quickly getting up to speed on OSMF. Now in Part 2 I want to touch on some different options the developer has regarding what classes to use to actually build their OSMF video player. The main difference in the various options has to do with choosing ease of coding and simplicity versus flexibility / player capabilities.Continue reading

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