Day 10: Project Flexas

Wa how time flies. I'm into the tenth day of Project Flexas, and I still have not introduced it at all!


Project: Flexas
Duration: 30 Days
Objective: To learn Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0 within 30 days, after which, able to confidently develop and deploy projects using the skills learnt.

How does this name come about you ask? Well.. simple! ActionScript is called AS in short, so by simply concatenating "Flex" with "AS", you get Flexas! :)

Part of my technology ride that I've recently began, I've been very very busy and absorbed daily by Flexas! Well, what more can I say, I'm a geek! The original motivation started when Adobe announced the launch of the alpha version of Apollo. I want to be able to deploy something on Apollo!!

Guess you probably know why my blog is not getting updated as often as it used to be. I actually had so many things that I want to write about~! They're still sitting in my drafts folder and hopefully by the time I write them, they will not be outdated. haha...

Looking back at the last 10 days, they had been very fruitful. I'm now able to navigate confidently around in the Flex IDE, and able to do simple events and states setup, loading of external XML and doing some basic ActionScript 3.0.

Unfortunately though, I think I'm not pushing myself hard enough. Mmm... I seem to be lagging behind my milestones. Gotta keep pushing!!

Wish me luck! :)

LOST - John Locke - Speed Painting

I'm neither a fan of LOST, nor am I a fan of John Locke. But..

WOW!!!

You gotta see this! I enjoyed every single second of it!!

Box.net

Welcome welcome to Flashmech's Technology Talk. *waves*

*people claps & waves back*

Today we'll be talking about Box.net.

*cheers*

Haha... I've been writing so many stuff on technology recently that I feel that I'm more like creating a technology blog. Nonetheless, credits to Shunjie for giving me a sneak peak into this website, Box.net.

Sign up here, and they give you 1GB storage space for free. Simple. That's it. haha... the end.

*booo~~!!!*

OK OK!! That's not it~! haha...

Several perks. They allow you to share your files, if you want, with friends and families, view photos, blah blah blah all the regular stuff. What's nice too, is that for music files, they have their own player to play it too~ end~ lalala...

*BOOOOOOOOOOO~~!!!!!!!!!!!!*

I know stilllll not very convincing... Well at least, it makes me think about why I bought my thumb drive in the first place can? Haha.. I mean, both of them are 1GB, this is online, so it basically syncs to everywhere(PRO) as long as I have internet connection(CON). Yet, I can never lose data from Box.net(PRO), cos the data is always online and not in storage media. In addition, your files online will not deteriorate over time(PRO), unlike storage media, where you run into risk of dropping them, life span, etc... Transfer rate is a major problem though, cos it entirely depends on your bandwidth. Either way, it's never ever gonna be the same with the rate that thumb drives transfer(CON). But hey!! It's FREE!!! I know human are mostly cheapos *pointing to myself*, haha.. so that's definitely a PRO!!!

"Yeah!!!" *laughs and claps*

The real great factor will be that they allow me to have a name space in their address, and people can come to it and see what files I had explicitly shared. Feel free to download any file, any time((PRO), when I make them available lah!~(Another PRO)). haha...

Another plus, they provide widgets for bloggers like me, to add direct stuff on my blog to allow people to come and download! How cool is that~~! I can put my resume here when I'm finding for jobs, and other things necessary when they become necessary(PRO PRO!!). :P

Final note, they provide API for developers like me to create some really nifty stuff! Shunjie has already began some very very very very very interesting works regarding this. When he's done with it, I shall get it from him(if he does not consent, I'll probably steal it! :D), and share with you guys using Box. hahaha...

So what you waiting for? Sign up now and start uploading. Share with me too!!! :)

Twitter Me, Twitter You

Arul, credits to you dude. Haha.. I'm stealing one more technology found from your blog after Snap, which I have not give credits to you too. blehh...

Anyway, initially found it to be pretty useless, I guess it does have something fun packed into this small little thing.

TWITTER...

Even the name sounds cute right? haha... It's basically a quick update on whatever thing that you're working on at the moment. Consider it as a very short form to blogging. :) You can find my twitter to the right of my blog. "Do You Twitter Me?"

If you use gTalk, there's a more convenient way to update your twitter! Simply do an invite to twitter@twitter.com, and after that, "chat" with "him" and "he" will do the update for you!!

Oh man, this is technology. haha... When Arul first said Google might buy Twitter over, I was still being skeptical. Now after using it, yeah well... maybe?

Twitter on Google Talkabout

Ghost Rider

Ok, my lame attempt.

Stupid lah, cannot change the background once it's done.. It's all black and you can't see the drawing process.

Furthermore, I forgot all about the flames. boooo~~!!!!

I'll probably do another new one. soon... haha...

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a525404

300: True Measure Of A Man

Official Trailer

A good 300 seconds from the movie.

Have you watched 300 yet?

Admiration for them Spartans. Simple fact. If Singaporeans are like Spartans, no one would ever dare to invade us. hahaha...

Madness???

THIS

IS

SINGAPORE!!!!!!
(followed by a powerful kick to foreign powers into Singapore River)

hahaha... pengz~

All of us who served the army will probably know that Singaporeans are mostly 软脚兵. For the benefit of my non-chinese friends, that's wobbly-legged-soldiers. haha... Ok not trying to defame SAF here.

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Disclaimer: I did not say those myself! Don't sue me! Don't beat me if you're a 软脚兵! cos I'm also a 软脚兵!!! If you're not a 软脚兵, don't beat me either! I'm versatile I can change! I can also NOT be a 软脚兵!!! haha...
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Anyway, this movie really rocks. They really showed what a true measure of a man is. Fearless, dare to stand up for own rights, not retreating, no surrender, glory till death. Not to mention those admirable, drooling 6 packs! WOW!!

I'm gonna set myself a goal now. haha.. The actors trained their bodies up in 6 weeks, so I give myself 3 months. haha.. If I DO get 6 packs, I will post a photo up! wahahahaha...

Arul do with me! Get 5 packs and 3D will give you a kiss!!! :P
I'll give you a treat myself! haha..

Flickr API

NCRs! BUGS! FIX THEM!!!!!

Oh man... getting quite sick of this routine. This had been what I had been doing for the last month or so, fixes and more fixes to make VP more stable and bugless. I'm starting to complain about how monotonous things can get.

I want to do something more exciting, more fun! Learning keeps me going, and if I'm not learning, my passion will slowly burn burn and the wick will shorten shorten and then I will sian siannnn....

Then Arul came along and said, "Hey, why don't you go look into Flickr API, and get them into VP?"

NICE IDEA!!!

And thus I embark on my tour to learn the API essential for Flash. Once I get some demo working, guess I will post them up.

Maybe even to my long long neglected tutorial site??? hahaha....

VelvetPuffin! 1 week old already!!

Come on everyone.. Let's all agree that time flies too fast for people to grab hold. I wanted to write on VelvetPuffin (VP) when it's launched and now, it's a week old already????? Gosh...

Anyway, here's the fruit of my labour ever since I joined my company. Singapore's first social networking tool!!! Out from our own mother land! * claps * cheers *

Ok ok.. I'm not exactly proud cos it came from Singapore. I'm just proud because I took part in this project. :) Nights after nights after seemingly endless nights of slogging, this baby is finally born! SHOULDN'T I BE HAPPY!!?? Oh heaven I sure am. :P

Hence, I'm officially spreading the news!!!

Friends, romans, lend me your ears!!! Join VelvetPuffin today to get your exclusive nicknames before others come and grab what's rightfully yours away! Sign up free now at our exclusive website, www.velvetpuffin.com.

Add me as your buddy today! My nick is of course, velvetpuffin! I'm not joking guys. hahaha... I told you signing up early gets you exclusive nicks. Don't believe me lah. Next time too late all taken up already.. :P

Roxik | Pictaps

This is a pretty nifty website that I came across while looking at some of the mailers from PV3D.

Here's the original site.

In case you just want to see my creation, follow this link. hahaha... :D
http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a519034

I have got this feeling that this will be the perfect place for me to practice my rusty art skills. :P Expect many many more coksters-look-alike in the near future!

Too Many Things, Too Little Time

Mmm... Running into a bad crisis after nearly a quarter of the year just flew pass without me knowing. Time to sit down and rethink about some of the things I set out to do before the year began.

Long horrible list...

• Flash 8 Certification - Seems to be getting further away as the months go by. haha...
• Design Patterns - Still stuck at Chapter 2, Observer Pattern.
• Fuse - Well at least this is pretty ok, after spending 5!~ days to read the documentation. :(
• PV3D - Nooooooooooo~~~~~ Not started at ALL!!!
• Company's Website - Over estimate my capability to handle time man..
• Learning Japanese - Still at lesson 13?! Since last December!!
• Daily Bread - Though I do QT often, I'm not doing it everday!
• Roller Blading - Where did this come from?? (Recently guys, very recently. :P)
• Free up space in my computer - What??!?!! 200MB left out of 340GB???
• Clear my room - A murder scene just took place..

Oh man.... where should I begin... boooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Notice the new panel to the left?? It shall serve as a personal reminder. Let's begin there!

* Plays inspirational music *