The Daily Ken

Dusting off the blog

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:09:51 +0000

Just for fun I added a twitter-stream and played with the CSS. Seems like I’ve not done much HTML/CSS-wise so I’ll probably be doing some more minor adjustments here and there. Been really busy reinstalling windows, grading midterms, and stuff – haven’t done much coding at all lately.

I’m looking for a good hit detection library for AS3. Hopefully that will allow my students to make some awesome gamey-games!

I need to build something… NOW!

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:46:47 +0000

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!)

Holy freakin’ cow! 12 hour days Suck!

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:16:10 +0000

Okay,
so my life is crazy. Now I’m teaching from 11am to 11pm straight with no break. Why did I say yes? Am I that in need of cash? (Kidding – who isn’t in need of cash?)

I was thinking about all of the things I need to do I’m wondering when am I going to get it all done.
Met with a former student/partner and we decided to do some collaboration. We were thinking of doing some flash components together and possibly selling ‘em on a place like flashden – any suggestions?

Ruby – where are the brackets?

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:13:30 +0000

I’ve checked out a book on programming with Ruby and I’m pretty excited. It is sooooo object oriented that I’m starting to understand some of the OOP concepts from other projects a little bit better. Naturally, that has led me to Ruby on Rails, which seems to me as a very good way to learn more about the MVC (model view control) design pattern. I’ve also found a Ruby alternate to AMFPHP that uses Ruby, so I’ll be checking that out.

It seems that Rails and Flex may be pretty good partners as well.

The thing is – the syntax is very different from what I’m used to. No brackets, property definitions in objects are different, as well as the formatting of the conditional statements – not saying that I can’t look at it and understand it (mostly) but I am going to need more than a checked out library Ruby book to begin creating some useful code.

If you’re interested in learning about Ruby and Ruby on Rails with me, I’ve bookmarked a couple of good sites on my delicious account. http://delicious.com/spazzken/ruby

Objective-C can wait

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:20:54 +0000

With no Mac, no Xcode, and no hope of getting a Mac in the near future, Objective-C is going to have to wait. I downloaded OpenFrameworks, and so I’m going to get a little C/C++, but nothing like what I was planning. Perhaps sometime soon…

Objective-C, here I come!

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:04:57 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:18:03 +0000

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!

Flashbelt was fun!

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:43:17 +0000

Some cool stuff from Flashbelt:

Me getting to introduce Andre Michelle, audio/actionscript genius – (Yes, Andre – compared to me, you are a genius!)
Olives and Artichoke hearts for a rocking snack
Pleasantly surprised to meet up with Jed

How about a lovely photo of me looking silly? Ask no more:

To answer the question – yes, I’m following along in Flash CS4. The tips and tricks section rocked!