trace(”Happy ” + Number((new Date().getFullYear())+1));

By scott

Just having some fun with the aggregators

clearInterval(new Date().getFullYear()); 

//not even sure what the heck that means 
//Better lay off the egg nog and Captain Morgan!!

Scott

Happy Holidays, and Happy 2007, a.k.a. the year of Flash!

By scott

Happy Holidays everyone. And Happy New Year! My new year is set up to be an adventurous one, moving to a new country, starting a new job at Yahoo!, and now returning to my roots of my early computing days and using a Mac. It doesn’t get any better than OS X, Parallels, XP, Cold Fusion, Eclipse with the Flex Builder plugin, and Parallels new drag and drop ability between OS X and the VM. It truly is amazing and makes web development and qa easy once again.As a Flash Developer we have a very exciting year ahead of us, continuing to learn Actionscript 3, Flex 2.0, Flex 2.1 slated to be released soon, and whatever other versions Adobe has up their sleeves. And the most exciting thing to come is Apollo, I can’t wait to get my hands on the final version of that. The possibilities will be endless! So brain, if you’re reading this, I hope you are ready for a big year, time to increase the hat size because I am going to be learning a lot!

Happy Holidays to everyone, and I hope you and your families have a safe and happy new year!!!

//updated with Y3K safe code
trace("Happy " + Number((new Date().getFullYear())+1));

delete this.onEnterFrame,
Scott

Moving to California to work at Yahoo!

By scott

Headline reads, Canadian hockey fan is leaving the great white north. That’s right, for those who know me, know I am a Team Canada superfan. I even live in the city where they train. But I recently received an opportunity to work at Yahoo! in California. A southern state where hockey is almost non-existent some would think, myself included. No more Don Cherry, no more Kelly Hrudey, no more Ron Mclean, and no more Bob Cole, well unless you have Satellite TV, which I plan to have. And the other thing is Yahoo is right outside of San Jose, home of the Sharks, one of the best teams in the league. Anyway, back to the move. In a week I start at Yahoo as a Senior Flash Engineer and I am leaving my post at Critical Mass as their Flash Development Manager. Critical Mass has been great, and always will be great. I learned a lot in my short year and a half tenure. They are an amazing group of creative people who pump out amazing work. I was amazed almost every day in some of the stuff I saw coming out of there. There is a reason they were named Foresters Interactive Agency of the Year the past two years running. If Critical Mass is so great why am I leaving you ask? I wasn’t looking, it just happened. The opportunity landed in my lap, or inbox, however you want to look at it. I was headhunted. And it is not an opportunity that you can let slide by. It’s Yahoo!

So starting December 11 I will be an official Yahoo employee, working in a new city, and in a new country. I am not 100% sure what I will be working on yet but I am sure it will be extremely cool and forward leaning. Yahoo has so many properties that would make great Flash applications. Heck, they even own that small photo site, you may have heard of them, Flickr.

So wish me luck. I will be sure to post how things are going when I get there. And thank you Critical Mass for everything. You have and always will have something special. It’s an amazing company, with an amazing atmosphere. Good luck in your future endeavours