I am now working at Creative Donkeys as a Flash Developer.

Woot?

For the past few days I’ve been messing around with the API that Google Maps put out for Flash. It lets you use Google maps in your own Flash/AIR applications and customize them however you want. I’m going to explain how to make your own AIR app that lets you display bus routes and stops using the Google Maps API and ZendAMF.

We’re also going to create a function that lets us see the approximate time the next bus will come to any given stop (ex. “5 minutes until the next bus”).

It took me forever to finally figure out what to do with asynctoken in Flex 3, so I thought I would give you the jist of what I found out.

Asynctokens allow Flex to wait for an event to happen. Basically.

So if you have a PHP script that takes a bit longer, it tells Flex to wait till it’s done and THEN call the next set of instructions.

Go check out the WordPress site I’m working on http://millionants.com/

Some of their portfolio work is amazing.

This function will grab the file extension from a filename, and put it in it’s own variable.