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Max cries unequal internet presence; wants his own post too!

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:35:52 +0000

I need to update this blog to let everyone know that Max was the first Skylander player in the house and the current mania that is possessing the Korth household is his fault doing.

Public Announcement: Chelsea got Bash!

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:27:47 +0000

Skylander collection growing as Chelsea just aquired Bash and Max got Drill Sergeant. Skylanders is quite addicting!

Cobwebs and current events…

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:16:04 +0000

No real content today, just some thoughts:

Pizza Ranch is really yummy in a bad way–my stomach is so stretched out I am not going to be normal for days… [whatever that means]
Things aren’t always as they appear. Sometimes the ones who suggest things be done by the letter are also hinting that you do you own thing too. Innuendo killed the cat. Curiosity just got the blame.
Flash isn’t dead. Seriously. Until using canvas is as easy as using as3, creative thinkers without time for the learning curve are going to use Flash.
I really wanted an iPhone, but I don’t want any of its carriers. Until they have an iPhone for T-Mobile, I am content with android.
Updating a blog isn’t hard, but then again the same can be said for thinking things through. I think I need to practice both a bit more.
I love my new schedule. I really do. No complaints. Good classes, awesome students, nice times.
I really am just fine with me being me right now. Not all that eager to be something else for the time being.
This will most likely never be read…

Happy Turkey day everyone!

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:07:59 +0000

Hi everyone!

I’ve got a few moments of free time so I am contemplating my upcoming year. I think I would really like to learn a couple of new languages/frameworks. Anyone doing iphone dev right now?

Perhaps not…

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:01:16 +0000

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!

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:02:33 +0000

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.

jQuery Mobile and first impressions

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:42:20 +0000

I’ve had a chance to demonstrate jQuery Mobile to my students, which required I looked a bit closer at the library myself. I really like what is going on with it. It seems very easy to understand the basic formatting of the library with its data-role attributes defining the different parts of the page. There is some depth to what you can do with events, which I find interesting as well.

I wish that it didn’t take so long to load. Using my cell phone and T-Mobile’s 3G network, it seems that the pages load quite slowly. I would like to see a bit snappier loading times. One would think if it is targeting mobile, the mobile speeds would also be profiled into its requirements, but perhaps my phone is just slow… (I would happily accept another android/iphone as a donation for my personal testing)

Today we start our project, so I will continue to write on how things are received.

still alive!

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:22:46 +0000

This blog has taken a low priority lately. That probably won’t change much, but I do want announce I’m still alive.

Android Fun!

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:39:09 +0000

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!

Ennui

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:59:40 +0000

Gray day – student web hosting acting up – no windows down here in the basement – stayed up too late. Ennui…

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I wish I were outside doing something… anything really.