Cody Tolmasoff – Web Developer

I’m delighted to have stumbled across this upcoming Flash Conference, Flash Tent. This free live streamed event takes place December 12th, there is a countdown clock on the home page and you can find out when the event starts in your local time zone. The speaker line-up consists of Dee Sadler, David Gamez, Alan Klement, [...]

People pick on flash since there is so much of it used on the web – and as with any technology there is a fair share of bad or just poor projects out there (the technology used in not so great ways). Given time there will be plenty of bad HTML5 projects/ads/interfaces. It’s sad everyone [...]

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html Earlier this week Adobe released a statement that many pundits have jumped upon to say that Flash is dead, that Steve Jobs was right, and that Flash is circling the drain. As someone who has worked with Flash for over a decade, I’ve found this whole debate sadly fascinating. I’ve found myself having to [...]

Now that I’ve spent a bit of time unwinding and regrouping in my between jobs time, I’ve started to apply myself and my free time to those little things you always take for granted when things are busy. I can’t even count the times that I’ve come across something I’d like to: spend a little [...]

A phone or in person interview can be a really tough way to find out how a person works or fits in to an organization. I know from my experience leading a team that I always found better talent in a contract to hire situation rather than just a simple interview to hire type scenario. [...]

I’ve recently started a new full time position with Context Optional Inc. building flash pieces for Facebook apps in Downtown San Francisco.

As many perspective employers want to see source code for recent projects to ensure I know what I’m doing, I’ve added a new section called View Source to the site. Starting today I’m going to be adding some quick fun little projects to this section to share. Many of my more recent projects come from a [...]

Flash Camp is a free event put on by Adobe at various locations. I had the pleasure of attending at the San Francisco headquarters to see whats new with Flash, and where things are headed. Well one of the biggest pieces of news that came up was the name change of Flex Builder to  Flash [...]

I’ll be attending Flashcamp at the Adobe headquarters this evening. I’m really looking forward to seeing the newly named Flash Builder (previously flex buildier) code named Gumbo, along with some updates on Adobe AIR. I’ll post a summary here after the event.

I just got back from a very motivational night attending Pixel Sessions in San Francisco at the Mighty in the SOMA. I got to see Jared Ficklin talk about some crazy thrashing of ideas he seems to go through on a regular basis, Jenny Hansen talk about where she gets her motivation from, Michael Ernst [...]