Josh Tynjala discovered Flash in late 2004 as an intern working for a marketing company in Duluth, Minnesota. Flash Player provided the perfect way to combine his degree in Computer Science with his lifelong interest in visual arts. In 2005, Josh moved to California and established his first blog, Zeus Labs, to begin sharing his ideas and experiments. Around the same time, Macromedia released the first public previews of Flash Player 9 and Flex 2. Excited and driven to jump immediately into the future of Flash, Josh earned some recognition with one of his early AS3 experiments, a Flex app that used binary sockets to connect Flash Player to AOL Instant Messenger.
In the years since, Josh has spent some time moderating at ActionScript.org, contributing to the now-defunct IFBIN Flash community, and he actively maintains a treemap visualization and various other open source Flex components. In 2006, Josh joined the Yahoo! Presentation Platform. He improved his skills in software architecture by leaps and bounds while designing many of the components and utilities in the open source Astra libraries for Flash and Flex, and he branched out a bit to create a hybrid Flash and JavaScript charting component for the YUI library. Most recently, he’s been exploring casual games development.
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