Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Learn Flash via aSH’ Def List

    Homey G cross da sea has created the Definitive List which, “is a listing of tutorials, tips and articles on Flash MX 2004 and ActionScript 2.0.
    Kind of “aggregator” of good stuff on Flash MX 2004 and ActionScript 2.0. This aggregation or listing is manual, that means that what you find in The Definitive List has been selected by the site admin or the moderators.”

    Comes with a forum as well as community submitted links to other tutorials and links. What seperates it from <a href=”http://www.flashkit.com/”>Flashkit</a> or <a href=”http://www.were-here.com/”>were-here</a> is that aSH’ primary goal, at least from what I got from talking to him and reading his FAQ is that it’s an aggregator for tutorials and tips. It will, however, I’m sure have the community aspect being very much related. By empowering other developers with the common vision of consolidating their tutorials and help into one place, hopefully it’ll draw in the people who actually read the manuals and tutorials rather than just go to a forum to get a quick fix. If not, the place crawls with easy links RTFM smack downs, so hopefully it’ll be a self-correcting process. Great potential.

    At any rate, if you want to learn Flash, check it out. If you know Flash, submit some stuff you know already so that others may benefit by simply submitting or starting your own forum. More info on how to do that there.

    Flash MX 2004 and ActionScript 2.0 Tutorials: The Definitive List – <a href=”http://www.actionscripthero.com/adventures/”>Forum</a> | <a href=”http://www.actionscripthero.com/blog/archives/000167.php”>Intro</a> | <a href=”http://www.actionscripthero.com/adventures/viewtopic.php?t=2″>FAQ</a>

  • Director Kickin’ it AS Style

    For those of us in the “we thought we were cool but because we were not at the MAX conference, we learn stuff late but still try to be cool” (woulda put dashes using Flame in Central, but then you couldn’t read the title…), you now probably heard about AS style coding in Director.

    Even if you have, read on…

  • Job: Game Tester

    One of the ways to break into the gaming industry is to be a game tester. A large majority of people who broke in, came in as game testers. You play countless hours of the game, basically doing QA since the programmers’ time is more expensive and not as effective at QA’ing their own work.

    What I find interesting about this job is that they are now doing this for mobile phones. Now that phones are more powerful than my first computer, which had some great games on it to my father’s dismay, the future is so bright for gaming in this arena.

    <a href=”http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=20207847″>Probably dead now as these fade in about 2 hours, but check it out!</a>

  • Screens Work

    School’s out till January 10th, so all Saturday’s till then will be spent in bed till 3pm… which is when I usually would be getting out of class!

    My last project was to write an executive persuasion paper, and present a speech to the class, convincing the board of directors to relocate (I chose expanding the business) to one of 3 chosen cities. I did some research on all 3 cities and states, sorted through the plethora of links, reading what was relavant, wrote my outline, wrote my paper, re-read it… and then passed out. There was no way to do the phat presentation I wanted to do. Not to mention the fact that my professor did not like PowerPoint… personally. By that, he didn’t mind if other people used it, but he felt that a lot of speakers will use it as a sheild and hide behind it; the PowerPoint being the star and not the speaker.

    Not saying I’m handsome, but I’d never be upstaged by Flash. Therefore, I gave myself an hour and a half in the wee hours of the morning before school to work on it and finish it utilizing some of the images the night before. I’ve used Flash in the past as pretty much my outline of my speech on whatever I was speaking about. Really, it’s to help keep me on track as I love tangent trees.

    I hadn’t used Screens albeit once to determine what the difference was between them and forms… and I wanted to see the new layout + had some JSAPI ideas. At any rate, within an hour and a half, I had my presentation saved to a CD and raced off to school. It took 6 hours for the coffee to kick in, but I gave my presentation last, and it rocked.

    Screw PowerPoint… I got Flash.

    Granted, there are pro’s and con’s to each, but for my personal comfort level, they (<a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/”>Macromedia</a>) just made it so easy for me to knock out a presentation even faster utilizing Flash. I just wish I could of used this a year and a half-ago applying for that PowerPoint job.

    “I don’t see any PowerPoint on your website…” was one of the replies to a PowerPoint job inquiry I had applied for.

    Oh well, rocks having it now!