The Flex Show has Video / How do I feel about Certification / What do I put in my Portfolio?

This question comes in from a fan of The Flex Show.

You are most welcome. Part of the reason I haven't been posting around here so much is because I've been super busy. One of those items is that Adobe has come on board as a sponsor for the The Flex Show Video. We've named the series Fifteen Minutes with Flex and it will consist of a bunch of screencasts demonstrating some Flex Development task. We have two episodes released with more to come.

Many people have a lot of things to say about certification, but I won't re-hash that here. If you are looking for a job, I feel that having certification will often help you get past the gatekeeper ( AKA HR Rep ) and in front of an hiring manager / coder. I do not feel that certification proves coding skill, but I don't think it'll hurt you either. However, there are plenty of other ways to "prove skill", which brings us to your next question.

Have you decided what type of field you want to work in? Creating a game in Flex will probably not be relevant to a financial services company. Creating a data mining application will probably not impress an entertainment consulting company.

If anyone is dying to build an application, we'd love to replace embedded mp3 player for The Flex Show. The current player doesn't have any problems from a functional standpoint, but it is embedded from an alternate site and we'd love something that would give us more flexibility regarding look and feel.