About three weeks ago Indusblue launched a new contest site for MSN Autos. This was actually the first project with my new employer, and a doozy at that. I was the principle programmer, and there was no mercy spared as I was even forced to roll back the clock and program this is in the dreaded AS2.

Well, it was baptism by fire, but the whole experience was well worth it. The site is getting incredible traffic, (projected at over 500,000 before contest end in early March), and it really forced me to stretch my programming muscles to achieve some of the insane effects demanded by the art directors and designers.

Beyond this, I learned a great deal about Object Oriented Design, thanks to a grizzled 10 year vet. In fact, I would have to say that though this project likely aged me 5 years, it did increase my skills as a developer at least two-fold.

Since completing this project, I’ve already finished and started two more with Indusblue. So I’d have to say, thus far, the future with this company is looking bright. “knock on wood!”

If you have a second, take a run through the site. The goal is to find car parts, and assemble them together so you can win a new Mitsubishi Spyder. It’s a novel idea, and amazingly, the completion rate of 90 percent is much higher than expected.

The air freshener was a good time, and with some help from a very talented colleague, I was able to include a spray paint application using filters, blends and drawing to a bitmap by tracking the user’s mouse events.

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