Sean “the flex guy” Moore is a highly visible blogger in the Flex Community. He has been developing web applications for 12 years now and it’s no surprise that he was chosen to be a Flex Developer Community Champion by Adobe for his hard work and dedication to the Community.
FlachSope decided to interview this prominent Flash Developer, and luckily Sean agreed to answer some of our questions:
FS: Can you share with us a little bit of your history? Was there a turning-point in your life when you decided to cast your lot with web development?
Sean: I got into multimedia and programming in 1997. Lingo was my first programming language, shortly after that I studied HTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Perl and ASP. I messed with Java a little back then but never got into it too much. I’ve recently starting learning a lot more about Java. My first job out of college was doing CBT programming with Authorware. This was when Flash was just first coming out and gaining some ground. I started messing around with Flash in my free time and really liked it. My second job was doing web design and development for a mortgage technology company. That’s when I started doing a lot of Flash work, both animation and scripting. I think Flash 3 was just being released at this time. I had a good amount of experience with Director, Lingo, Authorware and Dreamweaver so Flash and ActionScript weren’t too hard to pick up. My next job was for an Learning company where I was a full time Flash developer for over four years. When I started that job we used AS1 and Flash MX. AS2 was released while I was working there so we ended up doing a lot of code migration from AS1 to AS2. In 2006 AS3 was really gaining some attraction so I started getting more serious about learning it and Flex. In 2007 I started doing freelance work for AS3 and Flex based projects. In 2008 I started Kannopy, Inc. and have been running the company and working with various clients ever since. Kannopy was the first company to focus on Adobe AIR development.
Flash Scope: New Flash Components Marketplace
Now beta, but will be betta!
We are glad to welcome you on FlashScope – a brand new marketplace, which was created to help designers, developers and people who seek to buy some flash components have an easy way to reach their goal. With FlashScope flash developers can promote and sell their products, without having any expenses connected with this. The only thing that needs to be done to start earning money is upload a product to our site, and we take care of the rest. We promote, advertise, attract customers to help you increase your sales. There is no registration or upload fee, and you can earn up to 70% from each sale.
You are also free to choose whether you want to sell only on our website, or not: and our non-unique products are not tied up to a low percent, like on other resources. If you decide to sell a non-unique product, you can earn 25%-70% depending on the number of your sales. But if you choose to sell your product only from our website, you start getting as much as 40% right from the first sale, and this percent GROWS all the time. As a member you can upload both unique and non-unique products, without any limits or restrictions.
FlashScope also aims to become a homepage for those who are looking for flash components: this is an all-in-one resource where people can easily find and buy flash files, receive help and leave their feedback on them. Our customers can always know how unique is the product they are buying and how good it is.
What you see now is only a beta version of the website, but the final one is coming soon. We welcome you to register, upload, buy, comment, and of course, let us know about the bugs you’ve found on the website, so that we can fix them. We appreciate your trust and help!
Flash components Marketplace Analytics
Flashscope has prepared a little tidbit for you today! We’ve been evolving from a tiny blog and now we have a huge community of prominent flash developers from all over the world here at FlashScope! We’ve been pondering this a lot and finally decided to launch our very own marketplace of flash components! Since the decision we were doing lots of analytic work exploring existing marketplaces and weighing the pros and cons. Some of the information that we’ve came up with can be of a tangible value to our future customers.
We have explored top 5 sellers of the most popular marketplaces to determine which components are of a great demand at the moment.
The metrics that were used:
- Product type – we did not pay attention to differences in functionality of the products, or their capabilities so we have grouped similar products under one category;
- Sales – the time period for collecting sales data was different from site to site, but globally we were using monthly data in our analysis;
- % Sales – this metric reflects the sales volume of each product in comparison with the total sales of all 5 top produts: %Sales = Product#1 Sales / (Pr#1 + Pr#2 + Pr#3 + Pr#4 + Pr#5);
- Price – we have included the price for it is one of the decisive factors when purchasing a product.
