Steve Cucinotta's job lets him work with state-of-the-art software, create the latest Facebook applications and collaborate with equally cutting-edge co-workers.
And if that's not enough, consider this: His office has a Foosball table.
Cucinotta, 27, works in the Hollywood office of the marketing firm Sapient, developing animated Web content using software like Adobe Flash.
And his skills are in demand: Industry insiders say the hottest fields in the tech world include those, like Cucinotta's, that help companies market themselves on the Web.
While many Flash developers have college degrees, it's not necessarily a requirement. Many get hired just from learning Flash on their own or after taking a few Web development and design classes. Becoming an expert with the programs can be a part of on-the-job training.
What is a requirement, however, is natural creative talent and a problem-solving spark.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Flash developer is a high-demand job
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Flash designs to bring your website to life
The internet is now a domain full of intense competition. An individual or an organization looking to establish their web presence needs to put in a lot of effort into various promotion techniques on the internet. But all these efforts will be in vain if you don’t have an attractive website in the first place. One way of making sure you attract the attention of the public on the internet is to incorporate flash design into your web pages.
Flash is a multimedia tool belonging to the Macromedia family. Web designers can make use of this software to develop interactive movies, innovative innovations and different kinds of artistic images. These clips are designed in such a manner that they can be embedded on to the web page along with the other content.
It is but obvious that flash design can be used to enhance the impact of your website which is the dire need of the hour. Flash Web Design is extremely useful because of its amazing features. This is the reason why people are finding it the only logical means of creating a website that captures the imagination and attention of the visitors.
Flash can be used in a variety of different ways on a web page. You can make a flash animation presentation to display your company profile or product ranges on your webpage in a 30 second series. Another good thing about flash movies is that they do not have a compatibility issue with different web browsers. So you do not run the risk of not having your video played on a different website. Hence working with flash doesn’t mean you will have to get tangled up in XHTMAL and other programming languages.
Flash can be used for a variety of other purposes on your website. You can use the program to create innovative ads that will be sure to capture the attention of your visitors. The program can also be used to create animated games that can be played on your website or downloaded.
The use of flash has now become a common practice amongst web designers due to the impact that it generates. The difference between websites that make use of flash techniques and those that don’t comes out quite obviously. The plain old and simple websites that do not make use of the innovative techniques of flash do not stand in any comparison with the websites that have been enhanced with the use of flash.
Creating flash animations, ads and presentations is however a technical job that requires highly trained individuals. Most of the good web design agencies now have a full time dedicated team of flash animators who provide invaluable services to clients looking for something out of the box when it comes to website design.
It is however advised to take a look at the flash animation portfolio and the previous work of the agency that you will be choosing for your website designing. A good idea is to read customer review in order to get an idea of the level of satisfaction they are able to deliver.
Source : http://www.promotionworld.com/
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Can Microsoft win over enough developers to change the paradigm?
Reflexivity, in a nutshell, is the idea that when many people believe something is going to happen, they unwittingly cause it to happen. The idea originated in economics, and I first stumbled across it in a piece about stock prices. In the stock market, when companies fear that a crash may be coming, they take certain measures (such as cutting back orders of stock or laying off employees) that play a significant role in creating a stock market crash.
We all know who the 800 lb. gorillas in IT are: IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems (which is slimming down to be a 500 lb. gorilla), and so on. Now, how many of these gorillas are really involved in what programmers do? Or, you might think about where the tools and languages you use originate. It’s a pretty short list. If you are a Java developer, your language comes from Sun, and your tools are either Eclipse (originally an IBM AlphaWorks project), JDeveloper (Oracle), or NetBeans (Sun). PHP developers seem to stick with text editors of some variety or another, by and large. This leaves nearly 100% of Windows desktop application developers, and probably 30% - 60% of Web developers using one tool: Microsoft Visual Studio. Talk about an 800 lb. gorilla!
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Adobe Opens Flash To More Development Across Devices
The Open Screen Project
Dubbed the Open Screen Project, Adobe's goal is to have Flash become the write once/run everywhere type of environment for games and other applications.
In the case of mobile devices, Flash has not see the kinds of inroads that has made it a successful development platform for rich media and content-heavy applications. The Open Screen Project is an effort by Adobe and several other manufacturers to increase the presence of Flash-based software and its use.
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