I’m sure you’re all thinking: that’s just what the world needs: another geek blogging about Flash. Well, I wouldn’t argue with you but here I am anyway.

I’m currently working deep within the belly of the beast - Microsoft. I work for the Xbox team and let me tell you it’s really hard getting anything done in a place like this because my coworkers are often product testing games like Gears of War or Big Bumpin‘ right next to me. Oh the distractions.

You can see some of my handywork here and there on Xbox.com and Zune.net. If it’s done with Actionscript then I either coded it myself or supervised. When I’m not working on the web sites I’m usually prototyping future designs for the Xbox360. Hey, did you know that the GUI for the next version of the Xbox is going to be built with Adobe Apollo? . . . It isn’t, but I had you going there for a second didn’t I? :-)

If I were the type of person who liked to show off - which I am - then I’d suggest that you take a look at LiquidText. I can’t wait to rewrite this for AS3 and see how much faster it runs.

I feel that it’s a real privilege to be added to MXNA. The best feature of Flash/Flex/Apollo will always be the community.