Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • AtlMMUG Meeting Thursday

    WHAT: The Atlanta Macromedia User Group October Meeting
    WHEN: 6:30 PM, Thursday, October 21, 2004 (presentation at 7:00 PM)
    WHERE: The Georgia Tech Student Center
    DIRECTIONS:
    http://www.visits.gatech.edu/directions.shtml
    WHO: Tunji Afonja, Multidmedia (http://multidmedia.com/)
    TOPIC: Flash Studio PRO v2
    RSVP: leifwellsNOSP@M@mac.com

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    Join your fellow Macromedia developers as we learn more about Flash Studio PRO v2.

    Make sure you know where the meeting is by using the interactive map.

    The student center is marked on the map as 114. Parking can be found at the parking deck marked 54.

    Please RSVP at leifwellsNOSP@M@mac.com to let me know you are coming. If you have any questions, my answers will have to wait until I return from my much needed vacation.

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    From our presenter Tunji Afonja:

    Our product, Flash Studio PRO v2, is regarded as the top 3rd party Flash tool for generating stand alone desktop application with .swf files. This tool is helping to spring a new and emerging market for Flash Designers and Developers. With Flash Studio PRO v2, these Designers and Developers are now boldly taking on exciting and different types of projects that include full fledged cross platform desktop applications, advanced kiosks, enhanced CD-ROM and special applications. This new market is allowing these Designers and Developers to double or triple their earnings, using the same Flash skills they have without needing any new training.

    We believe it will be of great benefit for your users to be informed about this. Some of the information we plan to share with your users include:
    – Creating Stand Alone Flash applications that:
    – Connect to any Database( Access, ADO, SQL, etc )
    – Play any Media Type( A.V.I., MPEG, DVD, etc)
    – Perform special tasks( activeX, PDF embedding, FTP )
    – Give you total Control over the Operating System
    – Do Cool Stuff( Custom Skins,Transparency, Organic Shape Applications )
    – Seamlessly deploying flash applications to PC, Mac, and Pocket PC, using the same code and assets.
    – Boldly stepping into new markets(DVD, Enhanced CD, Specialized Desktop Applications )
    – Quadrupling your earning potential using Flash Studio Pro with Macromedia Flash MX 2004

  • Homeland Security Designer… er, not

    Via Conman.

    Some designer goes off about how he designs for the Homeland Security, and how he made the logo, and how he helped come up with the coloring system.

    I was more interested in his cow earrings.

    wtf…

  • MT Blacklist Works with MoveableType 3.1x

    …for the most part. This necessary piece of anti-blogspam software is now updated to work with MoveableType 3.1x. I keep getting an error at the bottom of my screen, but the most important thing is happening:
    – I can blacklist spam which auto-deletes new spammed entries
    – new spam is no longer getting posted to my blog

    I believe the error above is related to why the emergency release didn’t work; my db path in my mt.cfg was relative. The last version screamed something about a badobject, while this one had some nice “suggestion” information on what to do. Since I had the error with a suggested fix, it was easy to solve the problem myself after some tinkering. Blocks are not showing up in the Activity Log like they used to, but whatever; out of site, out of mind. I had to manually delete older entries which is extremely slower than Blacklist’s method for some weird reason.

    Another weird thing is if the comment is already blacklisted, it doesn’t get deleted, thus I have to delete it manually. That seems dumb as the last version of Blacklist automatically did this. Secondly, there is no way to search older entries to delete comments that have blacklisted sites in it. I’m thinking those 2 missing functionalities are related. Regardless, there are some additional neat features. Jay’s definitely on a great dev path with this plugin; it’s definitely maturing into a full-fledged necessity piece of software.

    Regardless, if your an upgrade addict like me and shot yourself in the foot because Blacklist didn’t work with the new MT, here’s your chance to gain control of your blog’s comments again without punishing yourself and your users with weird extra form fields, delayed/approving comments, or required TypeKey registrations.

    MT Blacklist v2.01b

  • Pier 1 Dice Box

    I don’t like shopping… unless it’s for something I want, and even then, I’d much rather utilize a website. The only reason I don’t is for the excuse to mingle with the populace, even if I don’t make eye contact, and 2nd to offset shipping costs. I ecspecially dislike furniture shopping since I have a bed, desk for my computer, and a chair. What else do you need?

    Her majesty reminds me of all of those things and more… like having guests over, etc. that I just never really thought about, and keep forgetting on purpose.

    I was pleasantly surprised when I actually broke from the usual “husband waiting for his wife” routine men will sometimes do in stores when they are tired of following their wife in circles around the maze of wicker and glass that is your typical furniture store. One usually does this by finding a sample chair with too many pillows on it, and plopping oneself upon it. Your consolation prize is that the pillows in Pier 1 tend to have this neat texture, but even that only amuses me for 1.6 seconds.

    I found this box huddled in the middle of the wall. It had stone faces on its tiny drawers. For what this box’ function was, I still cannot say, but I immediately thought of Bush Garden’s Williamsburg up in Virgina, where they have this ride. It’s like… VR or something, and you sit in this moving room with other people, and go on this “ride” of a flying ship through the center of the earth. It’s very 80’s style CG, full of puppetry, and your typical Labrinth/The Dark Crystal look and feel. Atlantis at Paradise Island in the Bahammas, where I went on my honeymoon, before it was destroyed by this years hurricane seasons, had a similiar look and feel in their underground “The Dig”.

    I added it to the quickly sky-rocketing furnature bill. Why are we buying all of this again? :: she reitrerates for the 50th time :: Oh yeah. For $30 bucks, I now have my new official dice box. I’m so excited… and abashed that I actually care about furniture other than the necessities I mentioned above.