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Entries from May 2006

My favorite picture

May 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Okay this picture of me an lil man is my favorite. Now if I can get him to keep reading like this for the rest of his life maybe we can get that Harvard scholarship!

MJ and daddy reading about design patterns

P.S. I know that his mother cringes every time I bring up him [...]

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Tags: life

What kind of doctor do you want to be?…Shutup! You have no idea.

May 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments

This is one of those “hindsight is 20/20″. Way back in high school before I had taken my first pre-med class and obviously way-way-way before my first clinical experience I had already made up my mind that Iwas going to be a neurosurgeon. Why? I like the way it sounds. [...]

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Tags: Medicine

My Flex Insecurities

May 20th, 2006 · 4 Comments

Okay- so I’m a pretty good ActionScript coder but… you throw some 15-year-experienced, went-thru-a-six-year-program, know-it-in-my-sleep developers in the mix and I’m a bumbling Idiot. That trooubles me.
Before Flex - and honestly-in my current job- which continues in the pre-Flex mindset my AS skills walk on water. I went through and read the right [...]

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Tags: Flash · Flex 2.0

Actionscript as a Gateway Language

May 17th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve read about various “gateway languages” but my personal gateway language was ActionScript. I jumped into several “Java in 30 minutes books” and honestly years later my Java is not tha potent but my AS is bananas. I started off with the ActionScript Bible (the MX version) but it was too much for [...]

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Tags: Flash

Still plowing through Flex AMFPHP now with Cairngorm

May 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

My current project at work has a portion that I sat quite comfortably on ARP. The good thing about this is that it gave me a few months nustled up in the ARP framework. Today after I received a comment on my previous post on my AMFPHP adventures and a recent post on using Cairngorm [...]

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Tags: AMFPHP · ActionScript 2.0 · Design Patterns · Dev Tools · Flash

Flex and AMFPHP finally working for me:Some notes to self

May 13th, 2006 · 5 Comments

I’m out of town and based on a blog post that I came across last night with the Remoting Connection class I finally got a functional result from AMFPHP and Flex 2 beta 3.
The following are more notes to self than actual articulate pieces of writing. As I’m digging through this and finally [...]

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Tags: AMFPHP · PHP for Flex

The Ghosts of SmartSketch

May 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I have been noticing this poltergeist in my machine at work.  I first noticed it when I had my computer heavily bogged down.  Whe Flash is loading if you alt-Tab to the panel with the loading software- you get a glimpse of SmartSketch
It took me several tries to get a screencap of it but there [...]

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Tags: Flash