Secret agencies catching up on Flash Builder 4
After we’ve launched Flash Builder 4, I received a number of strange calls. Luckily for me, I had my camera nearby and I was able to record the calls. I edited them a little bit, you don’t want to mess with the secret agencies :D. Here’s the video:
This is the catch: if you recognize who’s impersonating the American, English, and French agents, you get a Flash Builder 4 license (please don’t ask me about the Russian guy, I have a family :D). There are three guys to recognize and I’ll give away three licenses (for each correct guess you get a license; you can get only one right and you’ll get the license). Hurry up, there are only three licenses. Just drop a comment (make sure you fill in your e-mail address)! Good luck!
LATER UPDATE: There’s one more license for who’s getting right the person doing the American. I’ll give you a hint: he’s an American and he is part of the Flash Platform.
LAST UPDATE: I stopped the contest. The American is Bill Heil, platform product manager for Flash Builder, he’s overseeing server services area.
I know this one wasn’t easy at all. But then I never said it will be 
. Next time you should know better!
I did the raffle and the winner of the last license is Mr. Benz. Congratulations!
Thanks to everyone for taking part and I hope you had a great time!
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Ah, the final „merde” is priceless! :))
Andrew Shorten
Miti Pricope
Mihai Corlan
Matt Chotin
French one is hard :-(
Thibault Imbert or Renaun Erickson?
Lee Brimelow – American?
French = Christophe Coenraets?
I bet all my pennies on Michael Chaize for the French secret agent :)
French = Michael Chaiz?
Here’s the missing ‘e’ ;-) (Chaize)
Is the American, Kevin Lynch?
=D
All shits! This is a fake. This bad imitation of russian…
Super, they must really want to get FB4 first.
Trying to guess the actors :
Russian – Cornel Creanga
American – Lee Brimelow
British – Andrew Shorten
French – Serge Jespers
@Dhaya
You’re right, Michael Chaize is the French agent.
You won one Flash Builder 4 license.
@George
Indeed the British agent is Andrew Shorten.
You won one Flash Builder license.
@Tomislav
I couldn’t give you any prize because from your response I understand that Andrew Shorten is the American.
There’s one more license for who’s getting right the person doing the American. I’ll give you a hint: he’s an American and he is part of the Flash Platform.
American: mike chambers
Is the American Ryan Stewart?
Cheers, Thomas
Nope, he is not Mike Chambers nor Ryan Stewart.
Keep looking :)
American: James Ward
Ok, final guess.. Aral Balkan. But it reeeally so doesn’t sound like him :p
Cheers, Thomas
wrong and wrong; cold and colder!
Kevin Hoyt?
American : Duane Nickull ? (even if he’s canadian isn’t he ?)
I will not guess our movie scene stars, they are all wonderful people that are now legendary beings(for me, working with flash since v4), but i will guess this:
1) Flash is here to stay!
2) I love it, i love the development workflow, i love the expressionism facilities!
3) It just works, i mean, in the past i have lost days/weeks to make an UI work the same in every major browser, even if i consider myself an experienced html/css/javascript developer, i just can’t stand the time i loose every time i work with these instead of flash.
4) And now, with AIR, the desktop world has opened. For building desktop apps that put accent on user experience(for my startup, this is how we differentiate ourselves from every other company). I don’t have to learn java,c++,c#. I have the right things here, right now!
With the recent FB4 release, performance has increased, quality of components is better, skinning is easier so i will finally get better with my designer friend/co-worker.
Thank you for this wonderful work!
(and yes, i would not refuse a FB4 license :D, it would be good for our startup(2 people) tool-set)
US – Richard Galvan ?
or maybe Ted Patrick ?
Wrong guys!
Terry Ryan ¤_¤ ?
US: Mark Anders
Mike Potter
Justin Everett-Church
Serge Jespers ?
US: Mike Melanson?
How intriguing… A wild guess:
American == Renaun Erickson ?
No need for a license, but funny game Mihai :)
Geets from Hamburg,
Sebastian
@all
nope, you didn’t find the guy. Try harder :D
Unlikely but the american sounds a bit like Ely Greenfield
Ryan Stewart
Just a wild guess :)
Russian Guy == Tom Krcha
American Guy == Christophe Coenraets
Greg Wilson?
Russia: Piotr Walczyszyn?
US: Tinic Uro?
:) Did somebody defect?
My final guess…
Could it be Andrew Shorten himself?
Mark Doherty ?
American: Mark Doherty
What the heck, American: Grant Skinner
I don’t accept a “No” for an answer :)) Cheers.
Ben Forta?
Chet Haase?
I have only this to say: NO! Keep trying!
I’ll give you the last hint: he’s American and he works in the San Francisco office. Hope this will make the things a little bit easier :D
American Guy == Aaron Houston
American – Jim Corbett
Daniel Dura ?
Matt Rozen ?
Peter deHaan?
Theodore Patrick ?
Renaun Erickson
a blast from the past – Mike Downey ? ;-)
My dual nationality theory failed before it started. That was lots of fun though – thanks Mihai :) Good luck people!
Duane “Chaos” Nickull allthough i`m sure one would have recognized his accent :-)
Theodore Patrick
Steve Jobs?
David Wadhwani
Christian Cantrell !
Rob Christensen
Michael Hu
Adrian Ludwig ?
Trevor McCauley
Arno Gourdol
Richard Galvan
John Dowdell
Man if he`s an evangelist he should get fired cause nobody knows him :-)
Is he engineer,product manager or evangelist?
Matthew Dempsky
Shantanu Narayen or Mama Omida !!!!!
Jimson Xu, Chris Nuuja, Tom Nguyen ?
Richard Galvan, Alan Tam, Richard Galvin
Doug Winnie
Ty Voliter?
Brad Edelman
John Shapiro
Glenn Ruehle?
@ all
This is really the last clue I give you :D:
this person is really close to Flash Builder! Closer than Doug Winnie or Ted Patrick for example.
David Zuckerman
Ah no, maybe Tim Buntel fits better…
Jason San Jose
Ray McClure
Serge Jespers
Kevin Towes
Hans Muller
Alex Harui
Peter Farland
Steven Heintz
I want to cheat: BLACK SHEEP WALL !!! (did i win or there is no cow level?)
WHO IS HE?!!!
Give us the licenses !!!
We want it, ah we want it badly!!
Scott Evans?
James Ward
Steven Heintz, Michael Hu
Mike Morearty
Seems like you’re having a lot of guys working with the Flash Platform in SF.. :D
Tom Lane (my last try ;) )
Elad Elrom
US: Colin Moock
Brad Arkin
Paul Robertson
Phil Costa
Ryan Frishberg
Keith Peters maybe ? :)
@all
nope, you are still wrong! Sorry guys, I know this one is harder, but once you’ll find the answer you’ll see that it wasn’t that hard :D
Terry White, Greg Rewis, Marc Eaman, Rufus Deuchler
Charles Duncan, Chris Converse
Dave Gruber
Russell Brown
Bryan Hughes
Terry White
George Washington, John Adams :)
Mihai Pricope
I tell you, There is no cow level and there is no spoon! But i really want that license!!! IT IS MINE, MINE I TELL YOU !!! GIVE 2 ME !!! Or at least, can i have a little discount :D pllliiiiiizzzzzzzzz!!!!!
Todd Pasternack
How about James Paterson or maybe Hoss Gifford?
I got it – Mihai CORLAN
Ok I think after 115, you do a raffle
US: Terrence Ryan
i agree with @Almog Koren. You should do a raffle
Andrew Shorten
It cannot be duane nickulls. that guy has the hardest accent of anyone already.
The American: Tom Lane :)))
Did I won? Did I? :D ;;)
oh f**k… :) Already tried…
OK, my last guess…
Mark Shepherd
@all
I’ll do a raffle. Until then, you can still have a chance to win if you name the guy.
PS I’m amazed by the number of people who are very close to Flash Builder :D
Is that person even an evangelist? Because if he is not, then maybe never saw him in a video and there’s absolutely no way people will recognize him. Or if he appeared a really long time ago, then it come down to blind guessing again… What do you understand by “close to Flash Builder” ( close in what way )? :)
Kevin Lynch?
:)
@all
Last try: this person works for Adobe on Flash Builder team, and he is not an evangelist.
What about Jonathan Gay? Although he doesn’t work with Adobe anymore, or does he?
Cheers, Thomas
Eric Herrmann… Slowly, I begin getting bored… :p
Matt LeGrand
Emmy Hwang
Kevin Towes
Marcel Boucher
Mike Melanson
Trevor McCauley
Chet Hasse
Aaron Dolberg
Nate Bishop
Rob Brambley
Rob Brambley
Andrew Shorten
Cody Tolmasoff
Mike Morearty
Rob Brambley
Andrew Shorten
Cody Tolmasoff
Mike Morearty
Jason San Jose
Heidi Williams
David Zuckerman
US: Greg DeMichillie maybe?
It sounds a bit like David Wadhwani too.
So, maybe it’s David Wadhwani?
Nah, David Wadhwani was already mentioned :) Darn…
Guessing goes one: Ryan Frishberg ?
OK – another guess:
John Nack
George Comninos or Scott Kovatch?
Never heard Mac Martine or Tim Statler talking, but maybe it’s one of those two guys? My guessing skills are really, really crap… What if we simply post the names of all people working on the Flash Builder team and you pick the correct one? :D Joking…
Perhaps Jacob Goldstein, who I believe works on QA… don’t know what he sounds like though…
Or, continuing the QA theory – Larry McLister?
@all
I stopped the contest. The American is Bill Heil, platform product manager for Flash Builder, he’s overseeing server services area.
I know this one wasn’t easy at all. But then I never said it will be :D. Next time you should know better!
Today, I will do a raffle and I’ll announce the winner on my post by the end of day.
Thanks to everyone for taking part of this contest and I hope you had a great time!
Peter Ent?
Bill Heil?! :) He doesn’t even appear in the credits.xml of Flash Builder. Now that’s either sad, or “overseeing” wasn’t cool enough to get him into the credits list… I think I saw 1-2 videos with him, but the voice from those videos is no where near the one in this video, so I would have never guessed ( or even suspected ) it’s him anyway…
Cheers everyone and best of luck with the raffle!
Thanks very much Mihai!
I`ll put it to good use :-)
Mr. Benz
Congrats Benz! Happy coding! ;)
My congratulations too, to Mr. Benz and the other winners. Have fun!
omg, the Germans did’t call ?