Entries from May 2006
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
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
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
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
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
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
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