Flash Coders

So today I attended my first flashcodersny meeting. It was pretty informative, though it wasn't too indepth about the package we were discussing tonight.  It's called APE or Actionscript Physics Engine. From the brief look I've had of it, it seems to be pretty cleanly coded and documented. I'll be looking more into it in the next week to see what I could do with it. Maybe I'll mess with it and throw something up here.  Looking at the demo I see an awesome excercise to test this engine. They created a demo with an item based on the wind driven moving sculptures of Theo Jansen.  I think I'll look and see what other things he's made and maybe reproduce that in flash. That would be sweet.

Jury Duty?!!?!?

So today I received my summons to serve in Jury Duty. The other month I was talking about how I think it's important to serve as a juror and now here it is. Ugh, me and my big mouth. Well, maybe I'll be able to bring my laptop while I wait to be on a jury so I can work on stuff and post on my experiences. We shall see.

At last

So after attending the recent Flex Camp Wall Street, I noticed I seem to be a little out of the loop in terms of Flex Development. I've been developing RIA's for Starwood, but it's only been through straight Actionscript 3 in the Eclipse Flex 3 plug-in.  So in order to see what I'm missing, I've decided to re-vamp my website developed completely in the Flex Builder environment. I'll be using my site as a testing grounds for everything I'll be working on. Whether it be map applications or fun Flickr API integration. So we'll see how well I stick with it tho.

Interesting Note...

I just saw the current speaker embed a swf into a pdf. Interesting concept. I'll need to look that up later.

Flex Camp Wall Heat....

Omg it is incredibly hot in here. The conference started about an hour ago and I'm sweating balls. Oy. hopefully the things I learn todya will be worth it.

Breaking News!!!!

Apparently NBC news has just informed the public... If you are thirsty, drink. If you aren't thirsty, you needn't drink. This may or may not include water, but it definitely does not include 8 glasses of water daily. /breaking news...

R.I.P. Surface

Well Microsoft surface had it's run. It wowed a couple people but now there's even better and greater potential with the technology Apple gained by purchasing the company that created the screen tech for the iPhone.  Microsoft, you guys had your short lived run but it's just too difficult to fit your big table box in my pocket, or on my wall, or anywhere I need a table that I can put my legs under...