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Jet America Offering $9 Flights

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | Random, Work | 1 Comment

Turns out Jet America is creating some internet buzz by offering $9 flights:

The StarTribune has an interesting article covering the topic.  The “Cranky Flier” blog has another interesting article about the new airline titled:  Is Air Azul, er, Jet America the Return of SkyBus? Jaunted has also been covering this topic.

The claim of $9 air fair is hard to believe.  Although they obviously claim that it’s “Not A Gimmick”, you can easily read the legal text and rest assure, you’ll be paying much more then $9.  In fact, after tacking on all the fees you’ll be paying roughly $44.60 one way.

Tags: google trends, Jet America

MapQuest AS3/Flex Club Finder

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | Technology, Tutorials, Web Design, Work | No Comments

This past release Erich C. and I have been working on a new AS3/Flex Club Finder.  We currently have 2 different club finders on our website seen here:

Flash Club Finder:

24 hour fitness flash club finder

JSP Club Finder:

24 hour fitness jsp club finder

This new project is meant to allow our members to set their favorite clubs in their profile.  This would allow them to quickly access the club’s resources, such as group X class schedules, phone numbers, amenities, ect.  We were given one release cycle to duplicate the basic functionality our previous club finders delivered.  What a challenge! This is what we achieved:

24 hour fitness flex club finder

This was a very beneficial project for me because I was to help build it from scratch. We overcame some very technically confusing challenges (such as loading an unsecured swf application inside another secure swf application). I got a lot of exposure to Flex’s event driven architecture and enjoyed learning a ton about laying out components with Flex.

I’ll make another post about the specific challenges and how we resolved them.

Tags: flex, Job, Mapquest

Back to the Office

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | General, Work | 1 Comment

Yesterday I ventured into the office after working from home for over a week. It was so great › Continue reading

Tags: Job