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Halo Stats Archiver: Desktop Edition 2.0 (HSA: DE) was built from the ground up scrapping the original code base that HSA: DE 1.0 had matured into. With HSA: DE 1.0 there was a serious flaw, it was hard to get working and once it was working it didn't necessarily stay that way. So with the development of HSA: DE 2.0 I decided to scrap the PHP-Gtk2 framework that HSA: DE 1.0 was built on and switch to my new love, Adobe AIR/Flex 3.

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Code Bank was built out of my need for a good snippit management system some where to store my most common and reusable classes or snippits. I've looked into existing ones and never found one that I liked or had the features I wanted. Many get the job done, but have a rather clunky interface and for that matter ugly.

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A little about me:

I've been interested in programming and Web Development for a long time. I started programming in C++ but later moved to PHP, and have since moved to using primarily Flash/Flex for front-end development now. Recently I graduated from NSCC Truro campus'es Interactive and Motion Graphics: Flash Developer course with a Flash Developer diploma.

My programming skills have lead me to work for the Chignecto Central Regional School Board's Information Technology Department on a very ambitious project called techMap (School Maps) and now to Webbuilders Group where I am currently a full time employee with my primary focus in SilverStripe Development the cms that powers this website.

Even though my primary focus at home is on Flash and Flex at the current time, I'm still doing allot of backend work with PHP at work and for my home projects. I recently started using Zend Framework for their AMF communication classes which Adobe contributed. Using AMF seems to increase the speed of communication between my server and the flash application running on the clients machine dramatically no more useless xml tags just pure binary data. The trade off however seems to be the dramatic learning curve that it has but as I've been told before I seem to catch onto new programming stuff fast.