Mar

30

One of the creative directors at the agency I work at, Barefoot, is running for president in 2008. Today is the launch of his site. Read all about Steve as a candidate, listen to podcasts, subscribe to his blog etc… Oh yeah, and he wrote a really whacked out book, you’ll want to pick that up too before giving him your vote. I’m sure there is nothing to worry about, he’s just as good as the other candidates, at least he admits to his criminal past. Not sure how he would handle Iran or North Korea, but at this point, can it get much worse. Check out kissing4prez.org and learn more. I smell another Howard Dean in the making.

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Mar

26

My agency is looking for a front-end/client-side developer:

“Barefoot has an immediate opening for an experienced User Interface developer. Strong skills in XHTML and CSS is a must. Significant experience in Javascript is a big plus. To be considered as a candidate, please submit at least 5 URLs for which you were either the only UI developer or at least the principal developer. No phone calls please.”

Submit your resume here: http://www.thinkbarefoot.com/jobs/development/2007/03/ui-developer/

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Mar

12

Mobile at SXSW

March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Looks like there were quite a few presentations focused on mobile at SXSW. I just ran across Brian Fling’s presentation in PDF format. Wish I could have been there, the PDF has some great info in it. Thanks Brian.

Mar

2

Documenting logic when building an application takes some determination. No one wants to go back and write a novel on logic after the project is completed, and Flash developers are no different.

I adopted using JavaDoc style commenting in ActionScript as soon as it supported Class files. Yesterday, I went looking for a new documentation generator that would include source code in the output. I settled on using as2api. It is a set of Ruby scripts that parse package files and output XHTML. It can include formatted HTML versions of the class sources as well. That fit my needs pretty well, that and I am on a Mac so other more popular generators didn’t work for me because they are Windows only.

I did notice one thing. I have a function snippet in Textmate. Snippets allow you to set tabbing order, so you can quickly fill out snippets. By default mine includes a @param. When auto inserting a function snippet, I would simply fill in null for the param if there was not one so I could easily continue on with my tab order. So a sample function would look like:


/**
* myMethod - just an example
*
* @param null
* @return Void
*/
public function myMethod(null):Void {
// do something
}

This is perfectly legal in Actionscript, but as2api didn’t like the null values. It throws an error and doesn’t parse the Class if this is encountered anywhere in the Class. In the end, it was easy to remove and I have all of my project Packages documented. I would recommend as2api if you are wanting to document your ActionScript.

Mar

1

I have been a T-Mobile subscriber for probably 5 years now. The main reason I started with T-Mobile and have stayed with them is the unlimited data plan, and the fact that I can use unlocked phones. Because of my mobile development (Flash Lite, J2ME, etc…) I need some flexibility and a decent unlimited plan. According to today’s news however, T-Mobile may start banning data of third party apps. This means the apps that I create and test. This means Opera’s browser. This means Skype. This means any news reader. Google Maps and Gmail Mobile. HUH? No idea why they would do this other than to free up the network for their in-house offerings like Blackberry mail, etc… If this is the case, it makes my decision of jumping over to Cingular for the iPhone all that much easier. I hope this is not the case. Their relatively “open” network was the reason I have been a customer for this long and was making my decision to jump to “the other GSM carrier” all that much more difficult. Might have to add this to the list of stupid things done by carriers to drive customers away.

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