I’m Dave Flatley, the guy who runs PXL Designs, LLC, and PXL Blog. I’ve been a Flash Certified Developer turned Flex/AIR etc for many moons (about 9 yrs). I started PXL Designs, LLC in December ‘06 and have been going at it full time on my own since then. I quickly found out I wasn’t the corporate type to show up at my job day in and day out and make someone else rich, so I decided its much better to own your own business where you can sleep at your desk and not get in trouble because you have the coolest boss in the world.

I’m currently an Adobe Certified Professional Flex 2 Developer, as well as a Flex Community Champion, I guess you can say I love my job and I don’t get a lot of sunshine.

I’ve spent most of my career as a programmer/consultant in the NJ/NYC metro area and made a break for it to venture out on my own. I’ve worked for many companies both big and small, and have mostly specialized in the Flash Player arena.

You’ll find a few of my contributions, and ehem commercial software products on this blog, as well as the PXL Blog. Let’s start with the free ones, there’s MyStylez, a cool MySpace layout editor written in Adobe AIR and it’s FREE! My clients, friends and family were asking me to help them style their MySpace pages and I thought this would be even better.

There’s the PXL MP3 Player built in Flex 3.0, the source code (written on the Cairngorm 2.2 framework) can be found here on PXL Blog.

I wrote Attest, the Adobe Flex 2 Developer Certification Practice Exam, which has gained an awesome reputation for helping developers pass the real exam with high scores.

You can find some good Flex/AIR code here on my personal blog, as well as some good laughs, and complete nonsense.

When I’m not coding, I’m playing guitar (real guitar, not Guitar Hero) or giving the PS3 a work out. Other than that, I like to get out and do any outdoorsy stuff and retreat into nature for a while.