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Why, Programming, and Infosuicide

Annie Lowrey has a wonderful piece about her attempt to learn how to program in the Ruby language, intertwined with the retelling of the legend of Why the Lucky Stiff, a fabled eccentric and beloved Ruby enthusiast who deleting all signs of his online presence in 2009. I’d previously come across Why at SXSW 2006, [...]

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Compact Calendar Gadget for Windows 7 by Bob Webb

POSTED Tue Oct.18.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Productivity TAGGED

I received an unexpected delight in my email this afternoon from reader Bob Webb, who’s created a Windows 7 Widget that implements the Compact Calendar design on your desktop. Bob writes (emphasis mine): Hi David. I am little more than a tinkerer in app development. A long time ago I wrote a calendar app in [...]

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Productivity WebApp Notes

The past two weeks I’ve been teaching myself the rudiments of Web Application Programming with HTML/CSS/Javascript, documenting the experience in my Code Process Journal on the Productivity WebApp Project Page. There is nothing to try yet; I’m still at the pure “how does A plug into B?” stage of development. Process junkies may enjoy reading [...]

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Flash Tools: MTASC Notes

POSTED Mon Apr.24.2006 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED ,

Ben Jackson has been telling me to switch to alternative Flash Actionscript tools like MTASC, but I’ve been resistant. Today, however, I’ve gotten a little fed up with the sluggishness of the built-in Flash 8 compiler. The tradeoff: I like the Flash IDE, because it’s comfortable and I like editing graphics within the environment. Plus, [...]

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Language Fluency

POSTED Sat Apr.08.2006 by Dave Seah UNDER Visual Arts TAGGED

I’ve spent the past several days working on several programming projects, switching between Actionscript 2.0, PHP, SQL, and HTML/CSS. In hindsight, I’ve been deeper into the programming flow than I have in some time, to the point of being reclusive. The question on my mind: why haven’t I gone nuts from switching between languages? My [...]

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Getting OOP to Speed with AS2

POSTED Wed Nov.23.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED ,

“How to explain things to those new to Flash who are still putting code on buttons” is one of the framing statements in Ben Jackson’s article on Teaching OOP that really nails where new coders are coming from. Putting actions on buttons is kind of like learning how to draw a frog: a new ActionScripter [...]

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Explaining Actionscript 2.0 Classes without OOP

POSTED Tue Nov.22.2005 by Dave Seah UNDER Computers TAGGED ,

A friend of mine, just getting into more advanced programming topics in Macromedia Flash, asked me what classes were. “That’s an excellent question!” I beamed, pleased at the opportunity to share some hard-won knowledge. “They’re useful for constructing object hierarchies–” “What are objects? And why are there hierarchies of them?” “Well, you can model a [...]

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