Ted On Flex: Beamed into the MotherShip called Adobe

Beamed into the MotherShip called Adobe

DIGG IT! 16 Comments Published Friday, April 28, 2006 at 12:56 PM .

Monday morning I begin work at Adobe Systems as a Flex Evangelist. I wanted to publicly thank Mike Downey, Mike Chambers, David Mendels, Ben Watson, and Christophe Coenraets for their efforts in beaming me aboard the best ship in the galaxy. I am really excited to be joining such an amazing team and company.

I really believe that the next 10+ years belongs to the Flash Platform in regard to rich application development tools and technologies. Having spent the better part of 9+ years working with Flash technologies, I continue to see signs that the platform is entering a great phase of growth. It is a very exciting time to be working with Flex and Flash and I am very excited to join the Flex team at Adobe.

There are some big changes in progress at my blog so mind the construction. By Monday I should have the onFlex.org site up and running.

Regards,

Theodore E. Patrick
Flex Evangelist - Adobe Systems

16 Responses to “ Beamed into the MotherShip called Adobe ”

# John Dowdell April 28, 2006 1:24 PM

Whoa! I didn't know this, congratulations and welcome, Ted, glad you're here!
# aSH April 28, 2006 1:33 PM

That's terrific. Congrats !
# Josh Tynjala April 28, 2006 1:56 PM

Good to hear that you're coming to Cali again. It's not San Diego, but it's closer. Adobe's getting a good guy.
# Anonymous April 28, 2006 2:22 PM

congratulations. I really enjoy the insights you share with the community.

oh by the way, isn't that an Adobe trademark in your domain name?
# Steven Erat April 28, 2006 2:27 PM

Congratulations!, and welcome.
# Anonymous April 28, 2006 8:18 PM

Nice dude, hope to see some cool influences from you :o) Campbell
# richardleggett April 29, 2006 2:26 AM

Congratulations Ted I'm sure you'll have lots of fun!
# Brent April 29, 2006 5:17 AM

Rock on Ted! Oh, and it was nice to meet you at FITC!

Cheers,
Brent
DarbyMedia/IQ Interactive
# Brian April 29, 2006 11:59 AM

Well, it seems not all of us here at the mothership knew about the new arrival. :) Welcome, and I look forward to working with you!
# Steven Webster April 30, 2006 2:20 PM

Welcome aboard !
# erikbianchi April 30, 2006 6:38 PM

congrats man!
# Mitch Olson April 30, 2006 8:01 PM

Congratulations Ted.

I guess you're going to be pretty busy for a while getting your head around the new role but at some stage I'd be interested to hear more about what your role entails.

I run a Rich Internet Application software development company working almost exclusively with Flex 2.0 now & I'm interested in how to build a strong community of Flex developers feeding an even stronger market of users & organisations demanding Flex-based applications.

Its an interesting time for Adobe & Flex competing with a strong Ajax base on one hand & the unknown threat of Microsoft's WPF(/e) platform on the other. One area that Macromedia/Adobe need some improvement in in my opinion is the support of & harnessing of the Flex developer community. The Flex Derby is a small start but even that clumsily ignores in my opinion the huge potential of Flex as an Enterprise Application Development tool (witness no category for this in the Derby).

Flex is shortly going to be competing against WPF & WPF/E-based developer apps like Expression. A limited MSDN-subscriber type Developer Network would be welcomed by serious Flex developers who like us are putting their trust & operating businesses on the wonderful potential they see in Flex. Although the universality of WPF(/e) seems a bit foggy at this stage, MS will obviously be a big player in this market & they have the advantage of a massive community of developers who have their identity in being "Microsoft developers".

Adobe have a window of opportunity to win over developers based on its fantastic capabiltities here & now.

I wish you all the best in evangelising Flex.

Mitch Olson
www.getoutsmart.com
:-)
# Ted Patrick April 30, 2006 9:33 PM

Mitch,

I hear you loud and clear.

I will be posting more about my role as Flex Evangelist in the coming week.

In a nutshell, my job is to:

1. Make Developers Successful.
2. Make Developers Successful.
3. Make Developers Successful.

If Adobe can make developers successful using Flex/Flash/PDF/AJAX, we will have grown the market for Rich Internet Applications and Rich Desktop Applications (RIA + RDA).

- Better projects
- Better jobs/rates
- Better marketplace
- Better examples
- Better community
- Better tools

My role at Adobe is to make developers successful, it's that simple.

Ted :)
# Mitch Olson May 1, 2006 6:28 PM

"Make Developers Successful" - I like your mantra :-)

look forward to hearing more about your role Ted.

best wishes

Mitch
# Alistair McLeod May 2, 2006 2:24 AM

Welcome to the club, Ted!
# Abdul May 6, 2006 1:14 PM

Dude, congratulations...

I am sure that you would make Flex developer and development successful...

All the best...

-abdul