Mike Chambers has spent the two and a half decades supporting, fostering, and advocating for developer and creative communities. During that time, he has worked with numerous apps & technologies including Flash, Photoshop, Python, .NET / C#, Flex, Objective-C, Cocoa, JavaScript, HTML5, Dart and Flutter. He is currently the Senior Director for Community at Adobe, responsible for worldwide community engagement for Creative Cloud and Adobe Express.
Mike has written and spoken extensively on Web, Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide, Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified.
Mike received his Masters in International Economics and European Studies from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1998.
When he is not coding, Mike can be found playing video games, writing code, taking photographs or hanging out with his two daughters.
On the Web
Popular or Notable Posts
- On Adobe, Flash CS5 and iPhone Applications
- Some personal thoughts on Apple and the trend towards closed platforms
- Clarifications on Flash Player for Mobile Browsers, the Flash Platform, and the Future of Flash
- Macromedia + Adobe
- Why Apollo
- Mozilla Prism and the disingenuous web
- Why Apollo
- On Microsoft, PDF and the threat to open standards
- Flash and Web 2.0
- Some thoughts on the Yahoo! Toolbar offer on the Macromedia website
Various Projects
- adb-mcp : MCP Based AI Agents for Adobe Photoshop & Premiere
- Lookup : In Game Trials Report Lookup for Destiny 2
- Digest : Improved Reading & Listening Experience for The Economist
- Ascendant PVP Mac app for Destiny 2
- DARCI PVP Web app for Destiny 2
- dcli command line app for Destiny 2
- Redrix Android / iOS app for Destiny 2
- TwitchLive for Firefox
- TwitchLive for Google Chrome
- meshjs creative coding library
- Accelerate : Flash / Arduino Based Speed Detector
- pizone - Raspberry Pi based Nintendo Zone access poin
- PixelFlow : EaselJS / Canvas Dynamic Graphics Example
- StringConvert Extension for Brackets
- as3corelib
- WoWTCG Utility
- Shortboard
- ActionScript 3 API Reference
- Timetrocity for Halo 3 on iPhone
Opensource Contributions
Books and Publications
- Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocketguide
- Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide
- Flash Enabled : Flash Design and Development for Devices
- Generator and Flash Demystified
- ActionScript 3 API Reference Guide
Site
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