October 2008 Archives

Sidetracked by Linux

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It happens. Especially to someone like me. I was focused on learning Flex in my (said laughingly) spare time, but I received a new laptop a while back...with Vista on it. It constantly crashes, requires workarounds and patches to run my printer, scanner, software, KVM switch, and generally to just exist. A past Linux user (I was sucked back in to the Microsoft vortex in order to mesh more easily with the rest of those who reside in it), I've been keeping an eye on Ubuntu as a quick and dirty way to return to the fold. So my spare time right now is spent setting that up. 

But! Do not worry! I have made progress with Flex in a Week. I have downloaded Flex Builder 3. It is successfully installed and I even opened it up and looked at it. I also took the Flex in a Week advice and set up the tutorials on Adobe Media Player (it lets me view the tutorials offline, which is helpful, I guess, I'll let you know if I like that or not, cause it's not like I really needed another media player on my desktop). 

So, I've reviewed Video 1 (learned nothing--it covered the differences and interactions of Flex/Flash/AIR blah blah blah. Boring and I confess I barely paid any attention whatever. Moved on to Video 2 which started to cover the interface of Flex Builder 3 (which is what prompted the opening up of Flex Builder 3)--never finished because was pulled away by assorted emergencies until today. Tonight and the rest of this week I hereby vow to re-visit Video 2 and move forward. I will try really really hard. Really. I will. 

Why Me? Well Why Not?

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Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all. If you have marketing in your title it's like you need to hide under a rock when it comes to blogging and any sort of webbing activity. It's like marketers are so single-minded that they can't have an original thought or outside interest that doesn't hold some hidden subliminal message (that is ultimately a lie). As the teenagers in my life say: whatevs. I have outside interests. And one of the biggest is that I love to learn new things. 15 years ago I taught myself HTML. 10 years ago: Visual Basic. Today? Well. Adobe has this neat idea called "Flex in a Week". I can't help myself. I have to try it. So this blog is going to track my Flex in a week experience. And I must be honest: due to my hectic life and work (that pesky marketing) I'm going to let you know up front that there ain't a glimmer of hope that it's going to happen in a week. But I'm going to do my best. My goal? Create an AIR app. It may be a bad AIR app. (Just a hint: It will probably have something to do with knitting) So that's my plan: that I will, at some point, I really truly hope, make an AIR app. Wish me luck! 

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