Logging Robby Abaya

A friend of mine asked me how to preload an image in Flash with AS3. Rather than try to explain it to him over aim, I whipped up this quick example.

LoaderExample.fla.zip

This couldn’t have come at a better time for me.

http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3564

Along those same lines, here’s an excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s new book about success.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/malcolm-gladwell-outliers-extract

Why cacheAsBitmap is bad [ by Thibault Imbert ]

Good to know.

Today, Sherwin tells me the story about how the hard drive in his laptop failed. Luckily, he was pretty good about backing stuff up so he didn’t lose a whole lot. It still scared me though, and got me thinking. For one thing, he doesn’t really bring his laptop everywhere, it’s his personal computer and mostly stays home. My laptop is now my _only_ computer. It’s almost always with me. It gets bumped around in my bag during my morning commute on Muni, worked on all day long at work, bounces around on my back for my 1.5 mile speed walk to the gym, crammed into a locker at the gym, bounces around for the trek up the hill back home, and finally, worked on for the rest of the night. Even after all that, I leave it on all night because I use it as my alarm clock. Basically, it’s either in use or in transit. My hard drive is at far greater risk than Sherwin’s was, and his failed. At work, we have SVN set up, and I love it. It makes me feel safe. Not only are my files safely backed up somewhere in the cloud, but I also have a version control system that I can count on. For my personal files however, I was pretty much doing things old school. I’m probably better at backing stuff up and version controlling than most people, but nowhere near where I need to be given some of the mission critical things I have going on. So, I bit the bullet and tried to figure out how I can set up an SVN system for myself. Luckily, my MediaTemple GridServer allows me to set up an SVN repository on my site. In fact, their knowledge base articles on setting up SVN are pretty straightforward for the initial part of it. After following the directions though, it still didn’t work with svnX. Some googling turned up an article, “Subversion on Mediatemple” by Mitchell Hashimoto, which explains the need for an ssh key. I know a little about those keys, and I’ve used them before, but I would never have thought that to be the solution to why it wasn’t working for me. I followed his steps (and re-learned how to set up those keys), and now I’m svn-ing like a champ. Thanks Sherwin for reminding me of the need to keep things safe, and Mitch for sharing your experience and helping me in my hour of need!

Tap Tap Tap – The Design Session

Nice post about their virtual collaborative process.

Tweening and Object Pools

Nice insight into a technique I look forward to using!