I usually don’t post jobs here but this one sounds pretty cool. Marcus Geduld from Nabbr.com sent me note about this position. Send him your portfolio if you think it sounds like a good fit for you.

Kickass AS Guru Wanted

New York-based Actionscript developers, I have a great job for you.
I’m the Senior Flash developer at Nabbr.com, and I need colleagues!
They must live in or close to NYC, because we like to be in a room
together, bouncing ideas off each other.

Nabbr creates Flash apps that promote bands, movies, tv-shows, games
and politicians. Past clients have included The Beatles, Justin
Timberlake, Barack Obama, The Movie “Hairspray” and many more. One of
the coolest things about working here is that an hour after posting an
app online, it’s already being viewed by thousands of people. Don’t
believe me? Check out the live ticker on nabbr.biz (.biz not .com).
Yes, it’s real!

We do heavy-duty development here. We push Flash and Actionscript to
the limit. So we need people who are AS 2.0 gurus (we’ll be switching
to 3.0 eventually, so you’ll have to ramp up on it if you don’t
already know it). We use systems like papervision, Red5, Fuse, etc. We
write commented, class-based code, and we aim to make our code as
simple to maintain and add to as possible.

If you come work for us, you’d be working full time (for a competitive
salary) in our downtown Manhattan office. We’re a (well-funded)
startup with a small number of employees. Everyone’s voice counts. We
all pitch ideas and innovate. We work hard and have fun, and no one is
micro-managed.

If this sounds appealing to you, throw your resume and code samples at
marcus@nabbr.com.

Lee

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Photoshop CS3 now has a great new feature that allows you to automatically export an image into a Flash-based Zoomify viewer. This means that you can view hi-res photographs without having to worry about download times. You have probably seen this feature on a lot of shopping websites. It uses low-res versions of the image until you focus in on an area and then it downloads the hi-res version of just that chunk. Check out the example below by using the zoom controls at the bottom of the viewer.

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I was asked to do a video interview while I was at Apollo Camp and they finally posted it online in Adobe’s Developer Center. Apart from the frightening freeze frame of me, I think it came off pretty well. Apollo Camp was very cool and it will be interesting to see what Adobe has planned for future events. Click on the image to check it out.

Lee

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Today I got the new Samsung Blackjack and so far, I am very happy with it. The primary reason for getting it was for the email and web but I was psyched to find out that the Flash Lite player runs on it as well. This may lead me to get more into mobile development, or at least learn the basics of Flash Lite 2.

Lee

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All I have to say is wow! I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Have you ever seen a video you liked on YouTube or other video sharing site and wished that you had it on your hard drive? Better yet, have you ever wanted to include one of these videos in a presentation or share it with your friends? Yeah me too. I just found out about vixy.net which features a free, online conversion of FLV files to MPEG4. You can convert to a wide array of formats including AVI.

All you need to do is paste the URL and it will find out the actual FLV address and begin transcoding it. Once it is complete you will then be prompted to download the new video. It works flawlessly! Check out the comparison below of the results.

Lee

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