Archive for January, 2010

Some Flash

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Ok, a lot of Flash. That’s what I’ve been doing lately. I miss my beloved XHTML, CSS and jQuery quite a lot but I’m starting to do some more fun things with Flash at least. One of my recent projects involves creating a dynamically generated scrolling image gallery. When working on this I realized I needed some kind of a formula to calculate the horizontal spacing of each image so that they would appropriately spread no matter how many images were there. It took me hours to finally work out because, well, I ams not so goods with the maths anymore.

If anybody is looking to do something similar, I’ll save you the time by sharing with you the formula I finally worked out.

(TotalWidth - 2 * padding - LastPictureWidth) /(NumberOfPictures - 1)

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January Again

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

It’s January again. Outside it’s cold and gray, I don’t have a dime left after the holidays, I’m 20 pounds heavier than I was last summer, and there’s not much to look forward to until spring. What does this mean for me? It means it’s time for the annual “Do nothing but exercise and learn from free tutorials” time of the year!!! Last year around this time I taught myself jQuery, experimented with CMS and blog platforms, began object oriented Java and PHP, and improved my knowledge of databases. Considering that I’m now working primarily as a designer rather than a developer, I think I’ll be concentrating on Flash and Photoshop. I recently starting learning how to actually use the Pen tool and other things like custom textures and I now realize I never knew more than a fourth of what one can do with Photoshop. Hopefully I can truly call myself a Photoshop expert by the time spring rolls around!

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One Year

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Well, the blog has been live on this site for just over a year now. It’s crazy to think that at this time last year I had never touched any blog software, had not yet programmed any database interactions, didn’t even know what jQuery was, and could barely remember how to make a simple tween in Flash.

In this next year I hope to keep learning, get more involved in the local development scene, and maybe make some better use of this blog. Hopefully I’ll find the time to post some code tutorials and more snippets of wisdom.

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