2.7 Uploaded

Tarandon — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:16:04 +0000

Well, the 2.7 Install went off without a hitch, except the zip extracted to the wrong directory. easily fixed however, and we’re back on track. To my amazement the plugins all seemed to work. and right now I’m trying out the QuickPress Widget in the corner of the dashboard. I’m immediately frustrated by the lacking option to choose my categories. Save as a draft.
Okay, now in the new editor, which is finally fluid enough to give me a decent typing area. I also like the collapseable sidemenu on the left for added space. I really appreciate all the AJAX effects they seem to incoporated into this release.

For free software this is really slick.

I’ll do some more playing around when time permits.

Cheers,

Fun with Flash

Tarandon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:59:49 +0000

I just found out a really fun way to expand your flash vocabulary when coding in ActionScript 3.0. If you feel the need, try deleting some of the folders in the en\configuration\ActionScript 3.0\Classes\fl\ folder. This the situation I encountered on the computer I happened to be using in the computer lab. I realized that the only folders available for import were motion and transitions. This was a very interesting exercise. All the operators I’ve been used to using had been removed and I was limited to a much smaller sandbox. To my surprise I was still able to hack together a functional submission for my first assignment. It didn’t come out anywhere close to what I had originally planned but it worked nonetheless. While this normally would have been extremely frustrating I found the added challenge to be welcomed entertainment considering the subject matter of the lecture included how to distinguish between = and == when making statements. OMFG!!!

If you actually decide to do this; make sure of course to back everything up, you could probably just move the folders up a level and then return them when you’re done playing.

Cheers!

Tarandon

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