Applied for a job in London that appeared randomly in my email the other day (recruitment agents will *never* delete your details once you’ve signed up with them it seems). The job is close to twice my current salary as it’s with a financial consulting company so it was worth a try.
The job involves coding in Flex, which is a language for creating online apps in Flash, and I’ve about 6 months experience in this. That’s not a lot, but then it’s a relatively new language, and the job I did was for a big bluechip financial company so I might have a shot at the job.
Anyway, so figured I’d better remind myself of how it works. Here’s a widget I’ve knocked up that gives you HU preflop ranges (it’s in flash, so maybe you need a browser plugin if you can’t see anything);
Now as a link – it no longer fits on this page!
Notice it is HU ranges, so not quite the same as pokerstove might give (you can tell by pushing the min right up to 99% and see that 72o is stronger than 32o).
Just a beta at the moment, I’ll be adding nash & sage, plus preflop raise sizing as well in a bit. At the moment I’m just showing off though 
Update: that’s most of the functionality I think, perhaps needs a bit of prettifying maybe…
Good luck with the job
Tool looks promising… Look forward to it’s completion
Hope the job application works out. So true about recruitment agents never leaving you alone by the way – I still get weekly updates even though I’ve been at my current job for nearly 2 years now!
thanks.
Spin & win looks interesting – any games of skill likely, or all just luck stuff?
Yeah be careful with those agents and they might even exchange your details with some agent friends of theirs.
Anyway I’ve not seen Flex code thoroughly. I build some sites but I use PHP and JS. Honestly I don’t like to put anything Flash on sites I make. I don’t want to deal with it. Lately I’ve been rethinking my stand against Flash apps. We’re moving towards RIA, cloud computing is out and the need for online apps is in demand. Definitely worth a try to learn this. What do you think?
Flex isn’t hard to learn, so it’s probably worth a quick look. I haven’t used flash for any of my websites either since I’d rather have something that I know works with a bog standard web browser, plus I don’t really have the artistic creativity to make anything really useful with it.
However with flex it’s much more towards the RIA end of things, and is perfect for something like my Nash calculator (ie fairly self-contained, mostly UI to a simple dataset, plus the user doesn’t want to see page refreshes much). It can be good for bigger apps – look at http://www.pixlr.com/editor/ – that site loads up instantly more or less and is excellent.
Worth having a quick try at flex though – you create a layout using mxml, and values of textboxes, dropdowns etc have bindings to variables, and Actionscript methods allow more complicated processing. The main shift of mindset is due to the UI being entirely driven by events – modify a variable and all the UI components bound to that value update themselves. It can get really frustrating when the bindings don’t seem to kick in, or kick off too many events – for instance if you’re changing a large array (ie adding lots of items to a listbox), don’t add them one by one as each one will update the listbox – instead create a temporary array and apply the whole thing at one go to the listbox.