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The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care microsite launched several weeks ago but I’ve been so swamped I forgot to brag about it. 
This was a SUPERFAST RUSH RUSH RUSH job. Since it’s a fairly uncomplicated, temporary landing page, I figured I’d give Actionscript 3 a try. Wow, that was NOT a good idea. My hope was that building smooth scrollbars would make more sense in AS3, but NO, the scrollbars fought me the whole way just like always. And then, to make matters worse, AS3 ended up requiring 3x as much code for the simple things like creating button links and rollovers! Maybe I just don’t get it. Clearly, I just don’t get it. But I’ve since gone back to AS2 faster than a PC user to WinXP from Vista. I just don’t think AS3 is good for what I do. Of course, feel free to go ahead and tell me how wrong I am.*
Despite my personal hardships, the site came out great! Of course, I was only the developer, not the designer, so I can’t take credit for the site’s beauty. If I had had more time (and less frustrations with AS3) I would’ve liked to have added some more intro and outro animations similar to the opening animation. Ah well, maybe next time.
*I welcome your thoughts on AS2 vs AS3, and I really REALLY welcome your scrollbar code. I’d love to have something reusable so I can stop pulling my hair out over the damn things. 
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As those of you who follow my blog already know, I’ve designed several of IFC’s Web Series home pages. So, sure, I’m a bit biased, but I’ve also watched many of them and they are legitimately great and deserving of awardage. Please take a moment today and nominate your favorite web series at http://streamys.org. Here are my suggestions:
- best dramatic web series: Young American Bodies (sesason 3)
- best comedy web series: The Guild (sorry IFC, I have a HUGE crush on Felicia day, I’m sure you’ll understand.)
- best reality web series: The Stagg Party (naked ladies, people!)
- best news series: Lunchbox
- best directing for a comedy: Get Hit’s Jeff Wiens & Peter Blomquist
- best directing for a drama: Young American Bodies’ Joe Swanberg
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seems pretty awesome, and developers who know it are in pretty high demand. brian sent me some links today to get the learning started
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexbuilder/
http://flex.org/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?tab:quickstart=1
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/
