Lack of updates mostly due to getting ready and making move down to beautiful Mission Viejo in Orange County, CA. I have started part-time work at Pixabit/Final Motive doing Flash work, leaving me time for my own business things and ample free time.
I should be more active here, now that things are starting to stabilize, so expect new stuff soon!
First off, I wish everyone (anyone) who reads my blog, has had a great holiday season last year.
Since going on blog hiatus back in October (actually beforehand), I was working on a Rails project for a family friend. It was going well, and was working on it well into November. Unfortunately, to make a ridiculously long and complicated, even more ridiculously short, things went sour and it caused a lot of stress. After threats of being sued due to greed and pretty allegations, things we’re crazy for me, and the upcoming holidays were no help either.
So I took a bit of a break. About a month’s time, much needed after all the hard work I was pulling day after day. I would show off the work I did, but the client pretty much had somebody ruin the design so bad, I don’t even want to mention it, let alone show it off.
Well it’s now the new year, and it’s time to get focused and back into action. I’m good to go. So let’s go.
I just setup my portfolio homage (visualcondition.com) to just redirect here. That page is so old and outdated it’s not even funny. So until I do something else, it’ll just redirect to my blog for now.
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Yeah, I did just write an entry on this one line of Ruby. We’re engaged, Ruby and I, and I didn’t even have to buy a diamond.
Wow, a crap load of new beta software at the Adobe Labs site:
That’s a lot of stuff! Check it out here on Adobe Labs.
So the next version of the Flash Player 10, code named “Astro”, is supposed to be announced today at MAX. Really looking for hardware support here, and speculating some 3D awesomeness. But I just got word from Carlos on the PV3D mailing list that the announcement was rather disappointing. He mentions the top 3 features demonstrated at the keynote, which are:
Apparently the filters are as fast as the predefined ones, and show some promise. I don’t have any idea what “Hydra” is, and a quick Google search came up empty. Carlos also mentions the simple 3D feature was quite disappointing, and that’s coming from the hardcore PV3D developer himself.
So I’m guessing there’s no hardware support, but that’s quite contradictory to what a little birdie told me. So I’m not quite sure what’s the deal with this announcement, but I know they’re working on it somewhere.
I’ll be updating this as the day/week goes on, as I get more details from abouts’ the web, because I’m way too busy to actually attend MAX myself. If anyone knows anything that I don’t, be sure to leave a comment.
[UPDATE]
Some information on Hydra here, thanks Ralph and Zeh Okay, at least we kinda know what it is.
Also I hear that they’re coming out with Flash Lite 3 with video. Exciting!
[UPDATE]
Aral just posted a video of the keynote here. It’s actually pretty neat. The basic 3D properties are nice, and a great step forward. The filters actually look pretty sick as well. And the type, pretty nice as well. I think these are quite nice additions myself.
So you’re getting into Ruby on Rails and decide to stay hip by using it with Subversion, but you’re not quite sure how to go about it. What do you do? Read on of course!
I was asking the same question a few days ago setting up my (mt) Media Temple DV 3 server, and besides that process being worse than giving yourself a paper-cut in your eye while trying to keeping them open staring into the sun, I figured it out and thought I’d share. This is very general, so it should apply to most deployment platforms.
I just got the new 3rd gen iPod nano, and it’s brilliant. It looks like the short fat kid when you look at pictures, but the new nano is truly great. The scroll wheel is a bit skinny though, like that fat kid wearing a shirt about a size too small for ‘em, but it’s fine. The display is great, and the new ui is, as stated before, brilliant.
So, I also got a new little toy called a Macbook Pro. This 15 incher is a real beauty. You all know how amazing it is already, so case closed. I just can’t wait for Leopard.
I’m, also upgrading to the new wordpress today, so let’s see how that goes.
This is the first (and only so far) XML image gallery I’ve ever made. It’s nice and tidy, and in 3 classes, unlike messy flas that you have to hack through. I made this almost exactly a year ago, and never really shared it for some reason, until now. It’s no use to me at all, and is not up to my OOP standards these days, but I’m sure many will find it useful in learning.
Given the fact it was my first and that it was such a long time ago, I really don’t remember the ins and outs of it. I just figured I’d put it out there since I wasn’t too happy with the quality of beginner XML gallery examples scattered across the ‘net.
So here’s a few features:
Pixgal and Example Included is the latest Fuse Kit which is needed. Also, this is made with Flash 8 and AS2, so I don’t know if it’ll work in MX2004.
My good friend Moses (of Fuse Kit fame), is working on a nice little framework he calls Go. I’ve had a sneak peak in the private pre alpha beta gamma theta, and while very much in its infant stages, it looks promising and very OOP.
Technically right now it’s not very useful, but that’s kind of the point. It’s made as a framework to be built off of for tweening etc yourself (or others), not a full blown kit a la Fuse. With an almost cult-like following of Fuse, I don’t think Moses will have a single problem getting this little framework heavily adopted, but, we’ll have to see.