Perhaps not…
Won’t be doing much processing yet… got other fish to fry. I guess I made that commitment a bit prematurely.
A new language—I'm definitely nuts!
I have committed to do one processing sketch per week and post them here so you can see how cool/lame it is. Why? I haven’t the foggiest other than I am feeling a bit like a one trick pony with my focus on AS3. So we’ll see how it goes.
I wouldn't expect much at first, but perhaps I will even impress myself.
Android Fun!
I have committed to learn how to make apps for android. So I’m currently downloading the correct SDKs for 2.1 and 2.2. I’ll start off easy with a simple HelloWorld. After that I’m going to make a search widget for an anime database – just for fun. It should be fun to work with the API.
I’m starting with the Pulsar package of Eclipse, for those of you who care. I’ll learn how to do create and compile the Java-based apps before I spend much time with OpenPlug’s Ellipis (a code generator that allows to write Flex Apps and convert them to Android or iPhone code to be compiled).
I’ll update this after I’ve gotten something working.
Update: Okay, I’ve gotten a simple Hello World to work on an emulator created by the one of the SDK tools. It took more time to install everything and add the Android SDK to my Path than it did to make the app.
For those of you who wish to try it on your own, I used this links: Developing In Eclipse, with ADT, Hello, World – both from the Google Android Developer Page.
Update: It works! Woo hoo! The USB driver that comes from Google is older than my phone so I used USBDeview to remove anthing associated with T-Mo or HTC and the installed PDANet on phone and pc. It took care of the right USB drivers 100%! Now I have a little app called ‘Hello World’ on my phone.
It’s not much, but it is a beginning!
I need to build something… NOW!
I feel like I’m walking through sludge! I haven’t used anything from the creative side of my mind and I’m worried I’m losing it. Some thoughts on what might be next:
A sources sub-site that has all my source files from Flash demo, etc.
A new front page that would have links to the blog, classfiles, and new sources site.
Ugh! That’s it?! I think of some more, but what the heck! (Hey, I’m Mormon – don’t expect me to swear!)
Objective-C, here I come!
Okay – I know I have zero time for doing anything, but it seems like it’s about time to add insult to injury and learn a new language. I know everyone and their mother’s duck is learning Objective-C, but I want to too. Mrs. Ken even seems excited about it. Any suggestions for my first app? Mayby something with yōkai?
My Head hurts o_O
So I’ve got to make this script that will take a list of parented categories (list includes category name, category id, and the parent id of the category – made in MySQL) and create a tree with documents under each category (in Flex with AS3). I think I know how to make the tree, but perhaps I should request the documents as soon as the tree is expanded? Perhaps it could work.
Otherwise, I need to include the documents in the category tree – where they belong. It has been giving me a headache for a long time! When I get it done, I post it here.
Long story short – data visualization sucks!