Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • 9-11: Coderz Pay Their Respect

    <code>
    // Jason Merrill – ICF Consulting
    // e-Marketing / e-Learning Solutions
    // www.icfconsulting.com
    for(i=1; i<=3016; i++){
    trace(” ? “+”(person “+i+”)”);
    }

    // Sean Voisen | http://voisen.org
    var secondsElapsed = 0;

    function silenceAndRemembrance() {
    trace( ” … ” );
    secondsElapsed++;
    if( secondsElapsed >= 60 ) {
    clearInterval( silenceInterval );
    }
    }

    var silenceInterval = setInterval( silenceAndRemembrance, 1000 );

    // Lee Probert
    i = 60*1000;
    while(i–){
    // SILENCE
    }</code>

  • onClipEvent(load) Lives! or Another Best Practice?

    In the creation of behaviors for yourself and others (many developers use them to prevent writing the same shiot over and over again) as well as empowering designers to not have to code, I’ve noticed something interesting.

    Because your creating code that is placed ON an object, you revert to the on(press) and onClipEvent(load) mentality of Flash 5.

    I think with onClipEvent(load) and a little Flash 6 mojo, you could still get away with some pretty clean coding for behavior creation. Since behavior creation is, in itself, not technically coding but the actual creation of code underneath, you can get away with a lot of bad things because the complexity of the app will not get too high (assuming your not doing crazy shiot with your behaviors).

    Therefore, what are people using for best practices in the code they use for them? (I know it’s early in the game, but at least we can look back on this).

  • 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>