Flex Stuff by Gilles Guillemin

I wish I knew. Honest.

Don’t get me wrong: I do land jobs, and pretty decent ones too. Until last week I was a Senior Flex Developer for a startup in London. No less. And during the  past 15 years (give or take) I had several good others. So all my job interviews could hardly be quoted as “Epic Fails“.

But every now and then, I suffer from a very strange affliction. On a daily basis I am the reasonably smart guy. French smart guy (which says a lot one would say) but I wear glasses and that totally helps. And jokes aside, I believe I wouldn’t be here, doing what I do if I was a complete fraud and being incapable of putting 2 lines of working code together. I don’t think so.

Well, except maybe when I have a job interview… Preferably over the phone.

Even better: a technical one.

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Some of you might have heard of my recent difficulties, but the Show Must Go On and I’m glad to invite all the Londoners (and the others if they are willing to come around) at my little causerie for the next London Flash Platform User Group gathering. It’s called Mate Framework: The Pleasures And Pains. I wanted to call it Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Mate * But Where Afraid To Ask but apparently, according to Tink who gently invited me, it didn’t fit. What a pity.

Anyway, it’s the 30th of July, at the CosmoBar and I’ll be preceded by Matthew Press who will talk about UML for AS3. Yes indeed. So click here if you want the details and set a bookmark in your agenda if you want to come to see me make a fool of myself.

Ok, now let’s start thinking about what I really am going to speak about…