After three years of consulting I’m heading back to a ‘real’ job as a Flash/Flex (mostly the latter) developer at OpenSoft (aka Farheap Solutions). It was a tough call but doing full time Flex work a mere 15 minute commute away was too good to pass up.

The blog, which was about 50/50 Ruby/Flex, will probably now swing wildly to ActionScript/Flex topics as I’m all business in the front from here on out. I now have smarter people than me to take care of the back-end (which at OpenSoft is Java and PHP, with a dash of Ruby thrown in for kicks).

Consulting was fun but a bit scattered, I always had like four projects in various stages of completion (not recommended). Not only was I switching between Ruby and Flex but also between design, business development, tech support, accounting, collections, db admin, server admin and on and on. However I learnt a ton, and really only because I was working for myself could I decide to take a day or two off to learn Rails or Flex. If you’re on the younger side (or have limited attachments, i.e., single, no mortgage) I highly recommend consulting for a couple of years to learn new skills and build a reputation.

So my conversion to the dark side is now complete, five jobs ago I was designing Teletubby books for the BBC and now I’m an evil flex developer.

PS OpenSoft is looking for a couple more ActionScripters, Flex jobs in OC are still pretty rare so send me a resume if you’re interested (alastairdotdawson at farheapdotcom).