Feb 03 2010
I feel like I’m walking through sludge! I haven’t used anything from the creative side of my mind and I’m worried I’m losing it. Some thoughts on what might be next:
A sources sub-site that has all my source files from Flash demo, etc.
A new front page that would have links to the blog, classfiles, and new sources site.
Ugh! That’s it?! I think of some more, but what the heck! (Hey, I’m Mormon – don’t expect me to swear!)
Oct 29 2009
Okay,
so my life is crazy. Now I’m teaching from 11am to 11pm straight with no break. Why did I say yes? Am I that in need of cash? (Kidding – who isn’t in need of cash?)
I was thinking about all of the things I need to do I’m wondering when am I going to get it all done.
Met with a former student/partner and we decided to do some collaboration. We were thinking of doing some flash components together and possibly selling ‘em on a place like flashden – any suggestions?
Oct 14 2009
I’ve checked out a book on programming with Ruby and I’m pretty excited. It is sooooo object oriented that I’m starting to understand some of the OOP concepts from other projects a little bit better. Naturally, that has led me to Ruby on Rails, which seems to me as a very good way to learn more about the MVC (model view control) design pattern. I’ve also found a Ruby alternate to AMFPHP that uses Ruby, so I’ll be checking that out.
It seems that Rails and Flex may be pretty good partners as well.
The thing is – the syntax is very different from what I’m used to. No brackets, property definitions in objects are different, as well as the formatting of the conditional statements – not saying that I can’t look at it and understand it (mostly) but I am going to need more than a checked out library Ruby book to begin creating some useful code.
If you’re interested in learning about Ruby and Ruby on Rails with me, I’ve bookmarked a couple of good sites on my delicious account. http://delicious.com/spazzken/ruby
Jun 14 2009
With no Mac, no Xcode, and no hope of getting a Mac in the near future, Objective-C is going to have to wait. I downloaded OpenFrameworks, and so I’m going to get a little C/C++, but nothing like what I was planning. Perhaps sometime soon…
Jun 12 2009
Okay – I know I have zero time for doing anything, but it seems like it’s about time to add insult to injury and learn a new language. I know everyone and their mother’s duck is learning Objective-C, but I want to too. Mrs. Ken even seems excited about it. Any suggestions for my first app? Mayby something with yōkai?
Jun 11 2009
So I’ve got to make this script that will take a list of parented categories (list includes category name, category id, and the parent id of the category – made in MySQL) and create a tree with documents under each category (in Flex with AS3). I think I know how to make the tree, but perhaps I should request the documents as soon as the tree is expanded? Perhaps it could work.
Otherwise, I need to include the documents in the category tree – where they belong. It has been giving me a headache for a long time! When I get it done, I post it here.
Long story short – data visualization sucks!
Jun 11 2009
Some cool stuff from Flashbelt:
How about a lovely photo of me looking silly? Ask no more:
To answer the question – yes, I’m following along in Flash CS4. The tips and tricks section rocked!
