Vacation & Vash

24 05 2008

Been about a month now since I last posted, so Im posting a few updates. As of 1pm today, I am on vacation for the next 10 days, which is very exciting. Its the first vacation I have actually taken in the 1 1/2 years I have been working now. Next Wednesday I will be taking a trip up to New Jersey and New York to see friends from school. This will be my first trip to both states, so I look forward this week long trip.

Another update, two weeks ago today I got a kitten and named him Vash. This is my first cat to ever own. I have always been a dog owner and actually grew up kinda hating cats, thinking that they are all evil. That view is based off the cat my grandparents had when I was just 4 or 5 years old and that cat was the devil lol. I actually rescued Vash from a rather bad environment. Him and the other 4 kittens all are covered in fleas. I was happily surprised to find out that Vash is in perfect health after I took him to the vet to get checked up and get his starting shots as a new born.

Thats about it for now. Signing out.



Been a while

28 04 2008

Well its been a long time since I have posted so I thought I would do some updates. Two months ago, I bought the new Macbook Pro and I love it. It has been nearly two years since I last had a laptop. I dont know how I managed without one when going to work or elsewhere without it. For the past four months or so now, I have been working on a new game in using Flash 9 and ActionScript 3. The main objective of the development of this game was to make it as dynamic as possible.



ActionScript 3.0 & Flash 9

11 09 2007

After it being out for many, many months for Flash, I finally decided to start learning some ActionScript 3.0 and convert. The reason I haven’t done so before now I didn’t think it would catch on because of the complexity of it in comparison to AS2.0, but I was wrong on many levels. I also thought it would be difficult to change over with the number of changes involved, but it has actually been a whole lot easier then I thought it would be. I am enjoying working in it so far with a little bump in the road here and there while having to unlearn a few AS2.0 methods.



Adobe Flash Player getting H.264

21 08 2007

Big announcement today for Adobe. Starting today you can download a beta update to the Flash 9 player that provides support for H.264 video and High Efficiency AAC audio codecs. This is great news as the H.264 codec is a great choice for video encoding and will provide a more crisp and clean video viewing experience through the Flash player.



Back to work

29 07 2007

After being gone for four weeks from work, I got cleared by the doctors to go back to work this past week. It was such a joy being back. I am kind of a work-o-holic, so being gone from work for so long was driving me crazy. I love my job and it’s such a great feeling to be back again. To make it even better, I was given an opportunity to change departments at the college I work at, so I will be getting students again that I had 8 months ago. Teaching is a real joy especially when you know that you are making a difference in ones life for the better and helping them learn all the tools they need to get a job in the field they desire.