Blood, Sweat, Tears, but Mostly Cupcakes
By Roger Braunstein | on September 6, 2007
In AS3, Authors, Flash, Schematicers, Site-seeing | 12 Comments
These are some of the things that went into the making of the new schematic.com site, which has finally been released in public beta. Yeah, yeah, you found a bug, I suck, you’ve never been so offended in your life, what a waste of time, I get it. Go file a report. I won’t accept comments on bugs here.
Anyway, I worked on this site for about the last six months of my tenure at Schematic. It’s all AS3, with no Flex. I took the designs and features that had been built up over the last year, during which the company had aborted several attempts to build the vastly ambitious site, and assembled a schedule, tasks, a feasible set of functionality, a general approach, a process to follow, and an architecture, and then set to work. I was joined in my development by two great developers, Michael Avila and Jeff Yamada, who saw the site through to the end, and who made it possible for me to take time to write the AS3 bible while working on the site. But before I get into thanking everyone…
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