What you need to be a Flasher

I know a number of people who want to be Flashers. Also there are many people who would like to know how is to be working on this line. Here is my perspective:

What you need:

1. Know what Flash is about. You can only achieve excellence if you know what Flash can do and eventually try to push its limits. It's basically visual programming, an unique mixture between let's say C# and Paintbrush.

2. Love Flash. In my opinion, you are a Flasher if you are a good programmer with some aesthetic sense or a good animator. For programmers check this.

3. Know how to interface Flash with third party technologies (if a programmer). Flash by itself can do only so much: video/audio, games, animations, simulators, presentations and such. If you really want to get to the heavy stuff, you have to connect it to servers and make disseminated data reach people. Of course you can treat server-side as a black box, still I consider preferably to know some server side insides if you are to push those limits. No one else will do it as server guys don't really understand Flash that well. Flash has yet to make known its capacities, and here you come into place.