Fortune favors the bold.
Back in the summer of 2008, I was asked by a large national retailer to create a couple of Flash-based Facebook applications, for their Back-to-School Campaign.
They were throwing a boatload of money at me, to furnish a ton of working code, in an unreasonable – and inflexible – amount of time.
At the time, I had many Facebook applications already under my belt, and had a good reputation in the space – which was why they chose me to begin with.
But I had never written a single line of Flash. Like, at all.
So, naturally, I accepted.
Now, not for the first time – or even close to the last time – I accepted a project without knowing precisely how every component worked beforehand; or, even how I was going to get it all done on time.
But it was by no means an uncalculated risk for me to agree to deliver a professional grade product, using an unfamiliar…
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