HP Print Studio is an internet application that allows users to easily create professionally designed home printing projects customized with their own text and images, and it was the first project I completed at Resource Interactive, marking my transition from a lone-wolf to a team oriented developer. I won’t lie and say that the project was in any way easy- as the quote clearly demonstrates, I didn’t have the slightest clue on how the application would finally be assembled, though I really wanted to take a shot at it.

When building large datadriven applications in flash that nevertheless require a rich user experience, I have often encountered the challenge of applying a series of event-triggered animations to an arbitrary number of dynamically generated movie clips. In response to this, I tore apart the flash provided TransitionManager and built my own animation management class, the BehaviorManager. This package, which you can see in action controlling pretty much every interface animation of this portfolio, allows me to rapidly apply a series of prepackaged behaviors to any movieclip on the stage, sending it on its way to do its thing and to check back with me when it’s done. It greatly simplifies the development of extremely dynamic websites.