About

This is the professional services facet of Troy Gardner, principal architect at troyworks, and occasionally his trusted minions.

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troyworks is an award winning, small, relatively stealthy, interactive design and consulting firm, specializing in hard core RIA applications blurring web and desktop, with a passion and focus on Flash platform, Remoting,  Java technologies.   There is a long history with flash starting at Flash4+AS1.0 through Flash10, Air.

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We are often booked for months in advance, and get most of our work through word of mouth so don't do a great deal of marketing on the blog.

This blog covers several areas:

  • Flash wherever it goes ( Flash/Flex/Air) ,especially the dark corners of Actionscript
  • examples of the open source troyworks framework in action
  • All phases of successful projects: IA, IxD, rapid prototyping and workflow, QA..watercooler
  • small agency, team workfow, practicalities
  • my research in adaptive user-centric design, dynamic difficulty in games.

Speaking

I'm usually busy with client projects, but I make it a point to give back to the excellent IxD, Tech/Geek and Flash communities several times a year  I've presented professionally at major conferences in the Flash and Tech community.   Here are some of the places I've spoken

  • FITC Unconference at Adobe Max 2009 fitc unconference 2009 max
  • <head> (aka Singularity) 2008 button_234x60
  • FITC at Adobe Max 2008 FITC_speakerbanner
  • Ignite at Adobe Max 2007 Ignite
  • LA Flash community at the Rich Media Institute.
  • Siggraph 2004 04banner

If you are interested in having me speak, please hit me up.

Contact Me

If interested you can follow me on twitter at @troyworks

You can also contact me by email at:  troy at  troyworks dot com

Other Places to Go

Also if you are interested in the marketing of your products, and production creation you might enjoy my other facets:

http://www.troynotes.com/ internet marketing, seo, ppc, branding and product creation etc. After all what good is a product/service if people can't find it?

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Bill Sanders August 25, 2009 at 5:13 pm

Troy,

That was a very nice piece you had on mc.addFrameScript(). I wish I had found it a couple of years ago!

Kindest regards,
Bill Sanders

troy August 25, 2009 at 6:02 pm

Thanks Bill. Neat site you have!

You might also find this utility useful.
http://code.google.com/p/troyworks/source/browse/trunk/AS3/dev/src/com/troyworks/ui/UIUtil.as?r=32

function addFrameScriptForLabel(mc:MovieClip, lblName:String, fn:Function ):int

e.g. UIUtil.addFrameScriptForLabel(someMC, “loaded”, onReachedFrame_loaded);

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