Om welcome aboard.
---------------------------- Igor Costa www.igorcosta.com www.igorcosta.org On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Tink <f...@tink.ws> wrote: > On 29 Jun 2012, at 20:41, Om wrote: > > > Thanks everyone! This is a huge responsibility and I will do my best to > do > > justice to it. > > > > Just a bit about me: My background is in computer graphics and user > > interface programming. I have been working with the Flash platform from > > Flash 5 onwards. I have worked with ActionScript1 and have done > prototype > > based programming before it was cool (hipster alert!) I started building > > enterprise applications using Flash MX 2004 and ActionScript 2. It was > > cool, but it lacked several very important features. Moreover, I had to > > build a whole lot of things multiple times for different projects. Then > > came Flex 2 + ActionScript3 and (almost) all my problems were instantly > > solved. Since then, I have never looked back and never had to even look > at > > any other framework/technology to build interactive web applications. > > > > I also want to take this time to give a shout out to the > Adobe(Macromedia) > > engineers who built the wonderful Flex framework and SDK. We are the > first > > to scream when we find issues or bugs, but we need to take a moment and > > thank them for creating it in the first place and now donating it to > > Apache. Special thanks to Alex and Carol for keeping a cool head through > > the transition. It is not easy to have thousands of developers all > around > > the world breathing down on your necks when your trying to code. Not to > > mention a needlessly belligerent tech community that wants to see this > > technology fail. > > > > Flex is the BEST multi-platform application framework that exists today. > > Lets make it better :-) > > > > Thanks, > > Om > > > Great to have you on board, and a great response to be voted a committer! > >
