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A project I worked on in the fall went live not too long ago. I’ve been meaning to post something about it and I plan to follow this up with another post regarding my use of the CASA Framework within the project.

Gravis Footwear went through a redesign of their site and I worked on a small timeline piece which was built in Actionscript 2. It was a fun, little project which gave me a chance to do some Flash/AS2 work which I’ve been doing a lot less of since joining Allurent and working on Flex full-time.

After working with Actionscript 3 and Flex 2 for about a year now, I have to say I found the CASA Framework for Actionscript 2 extremely helpful. I always find it interesting when you leave a technology for a while, then come back with a fresh point of view. At my current job I’ve had the opportunity to gain a lot of experience in the area of application design and implementation and bringing that knowledge back to something like Flash and the timeline forces me to revisit my old habits and techniques for building applications in Actionscript 2. I noticed this same thing when I started playing around with FlashLite and had to revisit the Flash 4/Actionscript 1 language. I found that I had a fresh perspective on how I might have done things back in the day versus how I ended up doing them now in the same language.

I’ll post a follow-up regarding the parts of the CASA Framework I used soon. If you missed the link above, here’s a link to the Gravis Footwear timeline.

http://gravisfootwear.com/community/brandhistory.aspx