NYC RESET.
That is no normal grass under my feet, that is the grass of central park. Friday morning I woke up and decided I needed to reset my mind, and a good way to do that was to travel. So after talking to Nicholas and Ryan… we decided that saturday we would get up and journey to New York City in the morning. The city is amazing, and has left me pretty inspired to come back to chicago and really get a lot of things that I have been wanting to get done.
I was able to meet tons of awesome people in NYC, the city is filled with young people doing amazing things with their lives. It should be noted that I don’t normally do things randomly like this, I think hanging out with my friends Jimmy and Janie has really in recent years started to plant the idea of travel, random adventures, and going with the flow more and more. So thanks friends. Also to note me and Nicholas always talked about packing up and doing something random… It finally happened.
Once I gather all the photos from this trip, I will work on chronicling the adventure in more detail. Thanks to Julian for putting us up at his place and showing us the city. Thanks to Eli for coming to hang out and showing me some of the best ice cream I have ever had. Hopefully I can make it back out to NYC again very soon.
* watch out for the brooklyn giraffe, its out there.
We finally put up our new site today after about a month of development, writting, and extensive testing. Kyle DeTella handled the programming lead on this one, building the site around a framework called “amino” that was built in-house and been used in our production work for about a year and half.
One of the biggest struggles for this site was the choice to use a non UI scroll bar. We set out to make something work as close to the UI scrollbar as possible which involved employing some rather unorthodox techniques like javascript injection, to be able to track the mouse outside of the flash movie more accurate.
Our Amino framework will eventually be released as an open-source project as soon as we can package it all up and document it clearly for others to understand. More on Amino to come in the following couple months.
Using Code Snippets in Flex Builder
Kyle turned me on to this idea today for using code snippets in flex builder, it took me a while to figure out the exact procedure so I will outline it here.
1. start up flex builder and navigate yourself to Help>Software Updates>Find and Install
2. search for new updates to install
3. now your gonna wanna add a new remote site, with the url http://www.cfeclipse.org/update and click finish.
4. after you install cfeclipse your flex builder will restart
5. go to Flex Builder>Preferences>General>Keys
6. in the filter text search for snippets and click on “Insert Snippet” and you will change the “When” variable to “Editing Text”
Snippets are now setup.
To add a snippet you can now go into your windows and “snippet tree view” and setup a code snippet. When adding a snippet keep in mind that the trigger text is like a shortcut so you can type in something like “psf” hit command + J on a mac and have it be replaced with Private Static Function. This really help out if you have code blocks you often type out and need to reuse.
Time to get Nerdy
Love it!
this is strictly for the dudes at wcst
RAPPER BREAKS DOWN GOOD WEBSITE DESIGN AND CODING
I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Aziz Factoid: I did all the coding and design for azizisbored.com myself and though I like the way it looks, its technically terrible. I break all these dudes’ rules.
