Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Studio MX, Flash MX & Flash Player 7: Hot Date

    Just doing my part to spread the good news and hopefully give some insight.

    First off, Macromedia has released for purchase <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/software/mx2004/”>Studio MX 2004 & Studio MX Professional 2004</a>.

    Secondly, for those only buying Studio to get at the new Flash versions (<a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flash”>try Flash</a>, <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flash_mx2004_pro”>try Pro</a>), they too, are available for purchase and download.

    Third, Macromedia has released the <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”>Flash 7 player</a> (7.0.14.0) to the general public. It has the auto-update feature built in, so that should help with the many updates we’ll get to the player itself. In my opinion, however, we’ll be getting more updates to the IDE than the player as most programmers we’ll be trying to break their new shoes in.

    Finally, although there are a bunch of other phat progs in Studio, you may want to check out <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/”>Dreamweaver MX 2004</a>. I’ve used this to code in Flash MX, and now I’m hoping with it’s built in CSS, it will rival <a href=”http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp”>TopStyle</a> enough to become many people’s new editor.

    Why should you care about the new Dreamweaver? Well, it should definately make designing your blog a lot easier if you use <a href=”http://www.moveabletype.org”>MoveableType</a>.

    Also, if your looking to see what people are experiencing throughout their experiments with the new Flash in hopes you too can learn, make sure to check out some of their blogs, including Macromedia’s:
    – <a href=”http://www.fullasagoog.com/”>Full As A Goog</a>
    – <a href=”http://www.thedevilneversleeps.com/flog/”>Flog</a>
    – <a href=”http://www.markme.com/mxna/index.cfm?category=Flash”>Macromedia’s XML News</a>

    By the way, did anyone catch the Flash animation on Macromedia’s website touting Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Pro 2004? It said, “It’s like dating two hot twins, except you only have to chose one.”

    …that was definately written by a woman, cause I don’t know of any hetero guy who would only chose one!

    Anyway, good luck! Great times ahead.

  • Bloglines

    Via <a href=”http://www.mediadiva.net/mt/”>her majesty</a>.

    Thought I saw this posted before, but just in case…

    Allows you to subscribe to RSS (blog) feeds via their site. No software needed.
    <a href=”http://www.bloglines.com/”>Bloglines</a>

  • The College of William & Mary

    Dude, this place is quiet. When I had my 5 minute rejection (well, not technically, more like cold shoulder) at Georgia Tech, I can certainly tell the distinct differences in culture. After draining Wayne on what this place is about, I can definately see it in the faces in the people here.

    All the girls remind me of those queit girls in school who were smart, but didn’t blossom into a popular hottie because they loathed the superficialness of it, but more likely just had their head on straight. Not saying there is anything wrong with a superficial Betty, mind you, but it’s interesting to see where those girls went; to a place where they all are at. Can’t really get a guy vibe, I’ll just assume military considering my locale. Wayne says this school has a good rep in education, rated high, and has a rep for being hard. Everything I see who isn’t walking to class, quietly and alone or in couples of some sort, is reading. This probably accounts for the lack of noise here. Georgia Tech was loud, expansive, and parts were a concrete jungle. Here, it’s all nature, old time & cultural, and all the girls & guys are for the most part clean cut, and very “normal” looking. Nice to see this many normal people getting a good education. I used to worry about my future with so many X & Y gen’s being so… off kilter.

    Anyway, few hours left to get my presentation in order. Hope these people don’t think I’m an idiot, both in stature and in my attempt to educate them in an area that may or may not benefit them. I mean, shoot, there are physic peeps here; wtf do I say, “For an easy way aside from atomXML SVG schema to visualize your molecular models, consider using Flash as your front-end and Remoting to access your database.”

    Whatever. As long as I’m educating and affect just one person positively without negatively affecting others, I’m doing good driving all the way up here. Besides, my hosts were nice!

    appendum: You know, I was the ONLY ONE that wore shades on campus. Wayne had his on, but I’m thinking only to make me not look like an outsider. Don’t these smart peeps realize shades protect your eyes?

  • 4 Dollar Warning

    Second time I forgot my lock in 10 months at the gym; this time, though, I got robbed. I usually leave my wallet and cell phone in the car, but this time it just so happened I walked in with everything and no padlock. The thief attempted to replace the articles as they were, but horribly so.

    At any rate, $4 bucks is enough to remind me to NEVER forget my lock again; I got off really easy that time. Fate’s must of owed me a favor for all of last year’s bs. Regardless, I still take their warning in stride.

    …I wonder how much that thief makes in a week?