It’s been 10 years since I last sat in a classroom, but I’ll be doing just that for the next three days. My day job is sending me to a class on Adobe Flash.

I’ve only used Flash peripherally, mostly to customize a file that would allow me to display titles on a web site in a specific font.

When we relaunched our website a couple of months ago, we included a large promo box on the front page that uses Flash to rotate through four different features. I’ve designed a few different animations but could not implement them; my colleague, a programmer with Flash experience, has been doing it for us.

Flash is something I’ve been meaning to learn for a while, but I never really needed it until now.