The last couple years have been filled with tons of new technologies related to the Flash Player, so much so that it is very hard as a developer to keep up with it all. Most of the things that we get to learn is tied directly to what clients are comfortable with and able to pay for. As an example, of all the many projects that I have worked on over the years, only one has paid to have a Flash Media Server added to their hosting environment for the better of the project (PepsiCo for dewmocracy.com). Although I had played around with FMS, I had never done anything serious with it before and finally learned all it's glorious secrets.

The point here is that Flash development is actually a legitimate career choice. This technology has been around for over 10 years now and it's only getting better. The proof in this statement is in Adobe's latest efforts in bringing Flash to the masses. Announced on May 1st, 2008, the Open Screen Project represents a huge leap forward for the overall reach of Flash technology and a pretty bright future for us Flash devotees. I strongly recommend that you keep an eye on what Adobe has planned for our future by keeping up on the latest and here's a few places to see it unfold:
labs.adobe.com
opensource.adobe.com

Thank you Kevin Lynch.

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