{"id":1874,"date":"2010-05-17T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2010-05-17T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T04:01:16","slug":"coding-and-learning-and-a-picture-for-may-17-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Coding and Learning … and a Picture for May 17, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The current project I’m working on requires an Adobe Flash process. Over my career I’ve actively avoided anything to do with Flash. For the non-geeks of the world, Flash is a language for doing lots of pizzazzy stuff on a website, including moving things, playing movies, and such. There’s a lot of technical reasons why I don’t particularly like Flash. However, today I’ve spent much of the day learning the programming language for generating Flash content to be put on a website. The language is called ActionScript. I bought a couple of books<\/a> on ActionScript at the Barnes and Noble store in Idaho Falls last Friday. One book<\/a> is 900 pages long, the other<\/a> is 560 pages long.<\/p>\n

Adobe has a number of tutorial videos<\/a> available (also Flash content) and I spent quite a bit of time working through a couple of them. I’m getting close to where I can actually do the work I’ve been contracted to do. It is fun learning something new, although I don’t think I’ll use this very much.<\/p>\n

It was warm enough today (the warmest day of the year so far) that I actually considered turning on the air conditioning. I didn’t. It’d sure be nice to have about a month between turning off the furnace and turning on the air conditioning. I’m not murmuring, mind you, just observing….<\/p>\n

TTFN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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