Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • New Job: Round Box Media

    Today was my last day at BellSouth working for the Client Team. I must say, they certainly have a bunch of talented developers, designers, and other disciplines on the team that I was lucky enough to work for, with a good vision for the future of BellSouth. As a whole, I really like BellSouth’s corporate environment, benefits, working environment, and side benefits such as hearing presentations from leading managers and leaders from around the country.

    I made some great new friends, had some great mentors, and as always learned a lot. I know those experiences will stay with me and I have defainately changed for the better in working there.

    I look forward the opportunities Round Box is offering me, mainly the opportunity to work with other Flash Developers for the first time as well as developing software that actually garners the prefix “legacy” to its name. I’ve never worked on projects that I didn’t rewrite in some way over in 3 month timeframes, and I’m always the lone “Flash Dude” in any environment, so this is a great new experience I’ll get to be a part of, ecspecially creating software in Flash that has positive longevity to customers.

    Most importantly, I’ll have the free time to finish school, and won’t brave the retardation of American life that is “driving to work in traffic”… what a frikin’ waste of my life that was. I’ll save significant amounts of money, less wear and tear on my car, and the main point: a heck of a lot of less stress as I can telecommute most of the week.

    …did I mention I’m estatic? Leaving a job is always insanely stressful for me as I tend to take things personally that I shouldn’t. I tend to invest a lot emotionally into any endeavor, team, task, etc. that I’m hired on as, so naturally leaving such environments is filled with many a sleepless night. I know, however, that future is bright, I’ll be working with great people, and learn many new things so as the cliche goes, “It’s all good…”. I really look forward to the future.

  • Christina Applegate Urged Me to Vote

    Weird people have been calling my cellphone. Last Friday I get a call from my hosting service out in Cali, Mediatemple, saying that I was getting attacked by blog-spamming Perl Scripts from Morodor in the thousands, thus eating mad bandwidth.

    Then, last night as I searched in vain for my wallet in her majesty’s vehicle amidst ninja attire and weaponry, I got a voice mail on my phone. It was Christina Applegate urging me to vote, although, she didn’t say for what candidate, nor why it was so important, merely using the word important.

    Sorry, I’m married, your a little old for me, although people do say love knows no age limit, flattery will get you nowhere. I did vote this morning, though, just felt kind of weird having a hot blonde (is she still hot and blonde, don’t follow her career…?) used as marketting fodder to get the X and Y gen’s motivated to vote.

    On a positive note, I do thank Miss Applegate for the encouragement and her efforts.

    Speaking of celebrities illegally obtaining my phone number/voice mail box, if whoever is responsible could please drop my digits to Murdock from the A-Team, that’d be swell. I’ve always wanted to thank him for being such a great male role-model for me growing up.

  • Halo 2 Lock-In @ New Media Arena

    HALO players,

    HALO 2 LOCK-IN! 4 X-Boxes on large screen TVs networked together for 16 player action all night long. Additional TVs available for bring your own equipment.

    Monday, November 8th 8:00pm – 9:00am Tuesday
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    HALO 2 2 v 2 Tournament with Cash Prize to winning Teams
    Saturday, November 20th 11:00am

    For more details, please visit our web site @

    www.nmarena.com

    or call us at 770-579-3175.

    Also, for the next month, we are giving everyone that comes in an
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    Hope to see you soon!

    New Media ArenA
    736 Johnson Ferry Rd. NE
    Suite A10
    Marietta, GA 30068
    770-579-3175
    www.nmarena.com

  • File Sharing with Central

    Although Mike blogged this already, I wanted to pose a question. After Kenny showed me his creation this morning of sending a JPEG file to another Central user via Flashcom, it was interesting to note that even running local host, there was a 3 second lag in sending a 22k file.

    Now, the player didn’t lock up, and the speed at which Central was displaying the image after writing it and reading back was blazingly fast. What was slow was the actual sending and the time it took from the netconnection.send to the response from the server to call the method to render the file. Now, 22k is a sizable chunk to be sending over the wire, but neither I nor he could figure the exact bottle neck.

    I know this is a question for the Flashcom list, but was curious if anyone knew.

    I think in the future, most would be able to lessen the damage by establishing a link, and then sending over smaller chunks of the byte array, therefore giving you the ability to show a preloader at the cost of transfer speed. Still, just curious what part of it chokes since it isn’t necessarely the player and if that part is identified, what one can do to lessen it’s latency.

    Overall, the ideas here of file sharing applications via Flash and Central are definately cool prospects.