Just wanted to give everyone out there a heads-up: my team, Creative Solutions Evangelism, has a job opening. I’m looking for a Worldwide Web Evangelist. Is it you? You can read more about the position by going to Adobe.com’s job listings section. The job listing is number: CC030836 – or just hit the search and type in “Evangelist”.

In a nutshell, I need someone who has an expert’s knowledge of Adobe’s web tools (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash) as well as experience with Photoshop and Illustrator. You should have a solid foundation in these, but your focus will be on your skills with the Flash Authoring tool. Specifically, I’m interested in someone who knows the authoring tool like the back of their hand, from both a designer’s perspective, but also from a developer’s point of view, and knows the ins and outs of Actionscript 2/3 and has experience with Flash video. (How’s that for a run-on sentence?!) If you also know the Flash Media Server, even better!

Of course, as an Evangelist, you’ve got to have excellent presentation skills because you’ll be demo’ing these products around the world in front of small and large groups alike – at trade shows and seminars. You’ll also be regularly speaking at industry conferences where your knowledge will really be put to the test. In addition, you’ll be blogging, creating demos, and sharing your knowledge internally with the product teams as they create the next versions of our software.

I don’t care where you’re located – as long as you have a major airport within striking distance.

And I won’t lie to you, it’s a demanding job, as you’ll be on the road around the world 50+% of the time – but the reward is a highly visible position with great pay and excellent benefits in one of the best companies to work for in the world. If you think you have what it takes, leave a comment and let me know – or even better, apply for the job!

The worst part about writing a book (which just arrived today – no, this is NOT an April Fools joke), is the fact that print is so damned permanent. And once the chapter leaves your word processor and heads off into editorial production land, there is no easy way to “fix” a mistake or update a topic. And just this very thing happened with the project in Chapter 6 of the book.

In that chapter, Stephanie and I wrote about using the Spry Framework for Ajax to create an art gallery. In approaching the project, we chose to use the “new” Sliding Panels widget which was added in the 1.6 release of Spry. Unfortunately, what I didn’t “notice” during the writing of the chapter was that the panel sort of stuttered when clicking upon the panel navigation the first time after the page load. Apparently this is something that others have seen as well, because I was recently asked about that very problem in an online seminar that Stephanie was presenting and in which I was frantically answering questions in the chat window. So, there’s the issue and, more importantly, here’s the fix. (more…)

The time has come yet again. This week is “Amsterdam week” – doing several training sessions for our Dutch partners and a seminar for their customers. Should be a lot of fun, as the subject is Flash Media Server, Adobe Media Player and Flash video. I have to admit that I’ve actually had a lot of fun preparing for the sessions. I always enjoy getting the opportunity to delve into a new version of our software – and the newly released FMS 3 is truly a revolution. Not only did we drop the price (significantly), but we also piled on the features, including not only the ability to stream H264 content (in addition to FLV), but also to “automagically” encrypt video on the fly. This is done by simply adding an “e” to “rtmp” when creating the link to the stream. That’s it. And to make it even more amazing, it works with live video as well as recorded content. There’s tons of other cool stuff, but you can read about that yourself. In fact, I’d recommend the article that Kevin Towes recently posted to the Developer Center.

Finally, for those that missed it… there was a recent flurry of Twitter activity around a marriage proposal that I made to my co-author (and love) Stephanie Sullivan. Little did we realize just how much the “rest of the world” cared – LOL – it got picked up by Wired News! Prost!