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Jesse Freeman

Biography

Jesse Freeman is the Lead Flash Developer at Radical Media. With over 7 years of Flash development experience he has work for VW, Tommy Hilfiger, Heavy.com, MLB, the New York Jets, HBO and many more. Jesse was a traditional artist for most of his life until making the transition into interactive art and hasn't looked back since.

Jesse runs a Flash Meetup in New York City called Flash Happy Hour where other people interested in Flash/Flex/AIR/Web 2.0 are invited to kick back, have a few drinks, and make new friends. Jesse has also been a speaker at 360|Flex Camp. His blog, the Flash Art of War is "one of the oldest Flash military treaties in the world". From time to time Jesse dresses up as the Flash Bum (a homeless web developer) and goes out looking for work on the streets of NYC. You can follow the Flash Bum on twitter @theflashbum.

When Jesse is not programming is he can be found photographing the world around him.

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5 Tips For Version Controlled Site Deployments

December 14 2009

In this AFT I will go over - 5 Tips For Version Controlled Site Deployments. After relaunching my own blog I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the techniques I have used on larger sites and how they can be applied to smaller ones. Blogs… read more

Flash TDD Project Template

November 30 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - Flash TDD Project Template. Those of... read more

URI Manager Utility

November 16 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - URI Manager Utility. In the past I have talked about using RegEx to create a utility for… read more

5 Tips For Flash Unit Testing

November 09 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - 5 Tips for Unit Testing. Unit Testing and Test Driven Development are a hot topics in the… read more

5 Tips For Documenting Code

November 02 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - 5 Tips for Documenting Code. Documenting code is not high on many people's lists of things todo.… read more

Dynamically Creating Classes From XML

October 18 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can… read more

Photoshop For Developers

October 14 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can… read more

AS3 Reflection Using describeType

September 15 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can… read more

Flash Developer Guerrilla Workflow

September 08 2009

About Advance Flash Tactics Advance Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking... read more

F*CSS - CSS support for AS3

August 31 2009

F*CSS - CSS support for AS3 F*CSS is a new library I have been working on to help fill in the gaps in AS 3's CSS support. This began in my Flash Camo Framework's PropertySheet system and is now evolving... read more

InsideRIA talks AR at MAX

August 24 2009

Everywhere you look, Augmented Reality is a hot topic. With MAX a little over a month away, FLAR will be thoroughly covered in at least 4 different sessions. I was offered an incredible opportunity by InsideRIA to speak at... read more

Google Voice + RIA has Potential

August 17 2009

I have been fascinated with integrating telephone support into one of my next projects ever since I meet the guys over at Ribbit during Flash On Tap. About two weeks ago I received an email telling me I got a google voice account. The timing couldn't be better. read more

3 Design Patterns Built Into AS 3

August 10 2009

Advance Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can… read more

AS 3 Rest Parameter

August 03 2009

Advance Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can… read more

Intro to Flash Camouflage

July 03 2009

Flash Camo (for short) is a graphics framework that allows AS 3 applications to be easily skinned from pngs, jpgs, or gifs. The framework is broken down into 3 core areas: Decals, the CSS Parser, and the CamoDisplay. These systems can be used individually or combined to fit your needs.… read more

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