Sandman

Hello Lee,

We’ve never met. I know you because you’ve been an active member of the Flash community for years. I’ve seen you a few times at Adobe events, heard your talks, watched your Flash tutorials for years. I wasn’t sure how I felt when you took up the role of Adobe Platform Evangelist 3 years ago, but was happy to discover you never changed into a propaganda machine, keeping an objective point-of-view for as much as possible. If anything, your career move has given you more time to educate and inspire developers, sharing knowledge and information.

I feel compelled to write you, sensing that your tone-of-voice has changed as of late. An occasional bitterness has crawled up on your blog and Twitter stream. I think I understand why. You’re communicating about a large company and a product that’s changed continuously since it was conceived. With change comes friction. Software occasionally becomes unstable, the path to get from A to B within an application changes. My feelings towards this process haven’t changed since I upgraded from Flash 4 to Flash 5 ten years ago.

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