Our good friend and Adobe Technical Evangelist Duane Nickull has posted episode 6 of Duane’s World which features:

- An interview with Flash Guru Andre Michelle
- Code and Tunes with German Metal Band Spoiler
- Stefan D’Amore talking about Flash vs. Silverlight.
- Tips on how to work with audio in Flex Builder 3
- Screen shots of Andre’s new work
- Driving on the autobahn at 210 KPH

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2008/07/
personal-interview-with-andre-michelle.htm

Position Overview: This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing software company that is an international leader in their field. Among the many benefits they offer is a fully paid medical, dental and vision plan, stock options, an onsite gym and flex hours (10 AM to 4:00 core hours), sports teams and social events. They have professional, work hard play hard culture.

Responsibilities:
- Implementation of flash CS3 (AS3) OOP applications
- Developing Flash demos/marketing presentations
- Preparing media assets
- Quality Assurance for all client deliverables

Requirements:
- University or college education in Computer Science
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Flash, ActionScript 3.0, JavaScript, XML, PhotoShop, HTML
- Familiarity with MS Office
- Minimum 2 years experience working on dynamic, data driven applications
- Please provide at least one Flash example or a portfolio as part of your application
- Understands and develops code with OOP methodologies

Assets:
- Work experience with Java, C# or C++
- Flash OOP game developer
- Software Design Patterns
- 3D experience
- Any server side scripting language
- Experience working directly with clients
- Graphic Design
- MicroSoft Certification

Location: Vancouver BC
Position type: Permanent

To apply, please send your resume in word document to fan@blackshire.com or call 604-517-3553 for details.

Fan Yang, Recruiter
BlackShire Recruiting Services Inc.
www.blackshire.com
Direct 604-517-3553
fan@blackshire.com

LOCATION: Los Angeles, close to Beverly Hills

This is a full-time permanent position, however an interested contractor will be considered too

The HIRING COMPANY is the world leader in web based media production. Their site concurrently supports in excess of 300,000 users and is growing rapidly. They want to reengineer the Flash interface for their lead product.

This is an opportunity to join a group of highly capable technical professionals who are using Flash to its fullest potential. As part of the fast growing core services team you will be integral in designing and implementing the interactive front-end for our new streaming media applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Work closely with development teams on Flash web based media projects
- Through creative collaboration, translate designs accurately and seamlessly into animations
- Create dynamic and scalable interactive Flash applications
- Provide consultative input regarding enhancements using Flash and related technologies
- Assist in all phases of creative work from concept and storyboards through to production
- Work on multiple projects concurrently, as required, demonstrating a mature ability to handle many challenges at once

REQUIREMENTS:

- Strong portfolio of Flash-based animations
- 4 + years of experience in Flash Design and Scripting
- Expert level Actionscript programming
- Experience with Actionscript 2
- Expert knowledge of Flash Compression techniques and file structuring practices
- Expert knowledge of Flash animation techniques using both the timeline and programmatic motion
- Expert knowledge of encoding audio and video within Flash
- Experience creating dynamic Flash applications that use XML and server side technologies
- Proficiency with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks
- Experience with HTML, Javascript and XML
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, or a related field

Nice to have:

- Experience in reengineering interface to make applications scalable and support high loads
- Flash Remoting and Communication Server experience

COMPENSATION: SSF - sweet six figures, plus benefits and unparalleled opportunity to develop your career

Bonus - you will be reporting directly to a Canadian-grown manager and a former Vancouverite, who has built up his career in just exactly the same path

RELOCATION assistance is provided for a successful candidate

TO APPLY for this position please email your resume in Word in confidence to 432.blackshire@hiredesk.net or call BlackShire Recruiting Services Inc. at 604-517-3552.

With your application, please provide a link to your portfolio of Flash animations.
See our other available positions at www.blackshire.com

We have a 4-6 month contract opportunity at EA’s game development studio in Burnaby, BC. This is EA’s largest studio with nearly 1600 employees working on some of the industries biggest sports franchises like NBA Live, NHL, FIFA, Fight Night, etc.

Working with a small team of User experience / interaction designers within EA’s front end interface group, you will be contributing to the overall design, look, feel and development of Front End user interfaces for EA game titles. We are looking for graphic design candidates with high level artistic
sensibilities and a considerable background in creating optimized ActionScript and Flash.

Game development experience is not required. The ideal candidate would understand how to balance presentation with usability. Work must be elegant in approach, presentation, and execution.

Required:

- Professional motion graphics experience
- Ability to create optimized motion graphics from scratch using both AfterEffects and Flash
- Solid ActionScript 2.0 programming background (other languages are a plus)
- Be able to own your work.
- Strong design skills
- Portfolio is a must

Include a URL link to your online demo within your resume. Alternatively you can send us a demo reel quoting this job posting. Be sure to include your resume and shotlist too! Submit your resume online at http://jobs.ea.com. Select the Burnaby studio link. Search for req #20570.

Electronic Arts Canada
Attention: Art Recruiters - User experience/Interaction
Designer contract position #20570
4330 Sanderson Way
Burnaby, BC V5G 4X1
Canada

For this month’s presentation, Yosri Diab will be presenting on google maps/ flash mashups. Yorsi is the CTO and founder of GeoGraphs Corporation is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and develops high performance Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software for the Internet and desktops.

You can get the location info and RSVP for the event on our Flash Meetup Site .

Casting Workbook is small and dynamic world leader in workflow software to the film and television casting business. (wwww.TheCWB.com) Our team is seeking an experienced Flash Developer for an external contract position.

Work may be done offsite with consultation meetings held in our downtown Vancouver office.

Job Description:
Responsible for developing (and possibly maintaining) a Flash version of an existing web application including video presentation in a dynamic user interface.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Must have strong skills in Flash development.

- Very familiar with ActionScript 2.0 (incl. classes, delegates, events, loading external swfs), progressive and streaming FLV playback, the Flash security model, and JavaScript-ActionScript integration.
- Familiar with retrieving data from a SQL database and filesystem for presentation within the Flash interface.
- Experience working with a graphic designer to faithfully reproduce a design within the Flash CS3 application.
- Attention to detail.

- Strong verbal and written English.

Other desirable skills and experience:
- Strong web development skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS, HTTP, etc.)
- Experience embedding dynamic data, photos, Flash and Quicktime in webpages.
- Significant programming experience, in any language(s)
- An understanding of object oriented programming

Please contact: SFox@TheCWB.com with resume and samples of work.

Position Title: User Interface/Usability Designer

Description: Genebase Systems Inc. is seeking an outstanding User Interface designer. Help us develop a web 2.0 interface that is user friendly, exciting, inspiring and educational. The designer will collaborate with scientists writers and programmers to build the overall customer experience.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Product Managers to determine technical specificatiosn for web application user interfaces.

Implement user interfaces in DHTML/XHTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX

Minimum Requirements

Flash, DHTML/XHTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX website implementation

Preferred Experience

Experience with server-side LAMP stack, including web programming in PHP and server-side AJAX a plus.

MySQL database experience also a plus.

Salary: Negotiable

How to apply: Apply by email to careers[at]genebase.com . Please provide cover letter, resume and portfolio.

This contract position is for building the front end of the application in flex and having it work with an ROR CMS backend which we will be building in house. The project was reviewed and the strategically mapped out for completion by a flash/flex developer consultant. Most assets are also in place. There is also a complete work flow wireframes too. It has been
determined that 2 weeks should be enough time to complete the project. We would ideally like to work with someone full time if possible in order to complete this in a timely manner.

To apply for this project please submit your contact and links to examples to jobs[at]propanestudio.com and please put “Flex Developer” in the subject line.

The notes on this project are located here: http://download.propanestudio.com/nitrus_review.pdf

Clive actually sent me all the code from his presentation last week, but I’ve been crazy busy lately with the launch of the DeadSpace website.

So, thanks for waiting patiently and here is the Actionscript Code from Clive Goodinson’s presentation.

Thanks to everyone who has been waiting patiently for this to get posted. This PDF is one great cookbook, chock full of Flex and AIR code examples.

You can download the 2008 Adobe Flex AIR Cookbook here.

Pretty much everything Duane covered in his demo is here.