Hey Yahoo!, so long and thanks for all the Flash!

by Josh Tynjala

Some personal news for you all. Today’s my last day at Yahoo!. I’ve had an awesome time building cool Flash and Flex components and I’m honored to have been able to shape the best practices and directions taken with ActionScript here under the purple banner. Contributing to the Astra and YUI libraries and helping to expand and improve the Flash Developer Center has been a lot of fun. I’m excited to continue watching what new and interesting open source projects come out of the talented minds at Yahoo! long after I’m gone.

Where am I going now? Next week, I’ll start working full time with Clint and Ben and all the great folks at ESRIA. Besides coding in the trenches on various projects there, I plan to continue contributing to the open source Flash and Flex community as much as possible. Keep your eyes on my blog for more details as I get settled in. I have some cool ideas for applications, components, libraries, and all sorts of fun stuff. ESRIA digs my community contributions, and I’ll definitely have a lot more time to work on a wide range of interesting projects thanks to their support. I’m excited!

About the Author

Josh Tynjala is an indie game developer, entrepreneur, Flash and Flex mercenary, and bowler hat enthusiast.

Discussion
  1. Good luck on new endeavors!

    posted by Thom Blake on 05.16.2008
  2. Hey Josh, best of luck in your new position at ESRIA!

    posted by Mark Anders on 05.16.2008
  3. Hey Josh,

    Thanks for all your contributions! Have fun at the new gig – they’re lucky to have you!

    Cheers,
    Nate

    posted by Nate Koechley on 05.18.2008
  4. Congrats Josh! I can say selfishly that I am sorry you are leaving Y! because now you will be doing awesome work for secret clients instead of schmuck developers like me via open sourced Y! libraries.
    -Randy

    posted by Randy Troppmann on 05.19.2008
  5. Congratulations! Josh

    ESRIA has a gem in their team now :-)

    posted by Abdul Qabiz on 08.14.2008
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