Angel Medrano | Web (*) Developer

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I love being a Flash Developer... Seems to me that Actionscript Developers have the best of all the worlds. My most favorite thing is that I can combine a multitude of programing languages with Flash. Learning new ways of incorporating other programing languages into your Flash projects is getting easier everyday. Learn any language you can, ( if you have the time). All the documentation you need to do anything is just one google search away. Heres an example of a project I did recently: I needed to create a simple xml CMS for the company I work for. I used AS3 + AIR to create a desktop app that would display and edit xml files in a simple form for those who are not quite tech savvy. I used HTML and Javascript to create oop way of displaying XML pages that were styled with XSLT and CSS. Zend PHP for (Flash) to write XML files to the server and upload them. Voila! Believe you me, there was many a google searches :D What's my point? NEVER STOP LEARNING! Here are just some of my fav places to learn things: W3 Schools  You can find just about anything on this site. gotoandlearn.com I've learned soooooooooooo much from this guy! (for free) lynda.com If your company has a subscription to this... TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT! Adobe Dev Net Tons of great examples on this site. And of course, if you have a question.... RTSD!!!! ( read the stinking documentation!!!!) -angel