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I finally decided to start a blog to record lessons learned from the trials & tribulations along my journey of coding for a living, with the hope that these solutions will save even just one headache for one fellow coder.

This blog will focus mainly on Flash ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 but will cover anything related such as Zinc, JavaScript, SQL, XML, or anything else that causes me grief but results in a helpful solution.

About the Author
My name is Ricky Blaha. I am a senior programmer for ICS Learning Group in Severna Park, Maryland, USA, as well as a freelance programmer doing business as Interstellar Multimedia -- both concentrating in the multimedia, web-development, and e-learning arenas.

Coding professionally since 1999, my journey started with ColdFusion 4.5 with Oracle and XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. It later evolved into ASP3 development with SQL Server, then some PHP with mySQL. Then in 2002 the opportunity arrived to learn and use Flash 5 and Actionscript 1, and ever since, developing CD-ROMs, touch-screen kiosks, e-learning applications, and web applications with Flash have been my major focus and greatest source of enjoyment.

In 2008 I decided to back up my experience to become an Adobe Certified Flash MX 2004 Developer. In Fall 2009 I will finally complete my BS in Computer Science with a minor in Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management from UMUC.