I guess hard work really pays off. My app made PC magazine!  I developed Spiceworks Network Map, an Adobe Flex based network mapping tool. This release was quite difficult, the map now includes full editing, saving, undo/redo, and a load of other features.

I have written about 20,000 lines of code, but I figure I am only using about 13,000 to 15,000.  I think this is probably the most complex app I have ever built. Besides wrapping my head around the graphing part of it, I am using PureMVC, a command stack, finite state machine, state objects, heavy bitmapdata stuff for printing (so as not to print white pages and cut the map up into several pages), and some pretty crazy bitmap stuff for saving the maps to the database and reconstructing of the maps into actual Flex objects on the way back in.

I have to give a huge thanks to Alex Harui, from Adobe, for all his help on some tough problems. Alex is great, he won’t tell you the answer, but will help just enough to get looking in the right direction or make you think in a different way. And I mean this in the best way, he is like Mr. Miyagi.

Time to relax, its been a hard 4 months.

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