Lately I have been doing some Flash development for one of our larger clients at OC Tanner, Johnson & Johnson. It is great to do work for such big clients, but with it comes great responsibility. If I fail to deliver good design with a solid implementation of that design, it affects so many parts of our business. I am up for the challenge as I am used to doing such important work for the big guns. I find I deliver more polished work when under greater pressure.

The current J&J design, one of which I am not yet at liberty to disclose, includes some intense Flash and Actionscript 3 programming. It is getting pretty slick the way it pulls dynamic content through XML to engage the user. It will help the user considerably from the current program. I have been learning so many things with garbage collection, classes, keeping my code clean, and such. It is easy to slip into sloppy practices, but with some discipline I keep things somewhat organized. I know there are many AS3 best practices that I may not be following, but I think I am doing pretty good for being completely self-taught.

I hope to do a blog on some of the things I have learned in AS3 this past little while. Some things include:

1. Garbage Collection
2. Parent Scope (i.e. MovieClip(parent))
3. Class Organization
4. Event Listeners
5. Actionscript vs. Javascript

...to name a few.

Labels: actionscript, as3, garbage collection