Yet Another Update. Why not? Well I have been working on some smaller paying gigs dealing with Flash recently. It has kept me from doing anything at all to the site, but hey, paying is better than hobby. Right?

Well I think so. Mainly because I don't have a full time gig at the moment. Hopefully that will change soon. In the mean time, I would like to point you to one of my most recent gigs over at LingKit.com lingkit.com is a "teach yourself any language you want" site. It just opened. However there is a ton of stuff there. You can help expand the wiki, upload sound files and even record yourself speaking in your native tongue for others to learn from, or listen to yourself speaking another language to figure out where you went wrong.

I had the happy part of creating the audio recorder. (For security and to save bandwidth - you need to log in to see the recorder. If you do create a free account, the recorder will be found under tools - personal audio recorder from your new front page after signing in.

This recorder was a special challenge for me. It was fun, and at time frustrating. The idea was to create an audio recorder in Flash. Live streaming audio. YAY. (if you don't know, that requires the use of a Flash Media Server and is very fun to code to). But that wasn't all. I had to write the code to check microphone permissions, adjust volume of the microphone, enable playback and storage of the audio on the FMS server and before you could even begin, I had to run a check on the randomly generated key. This is to prevent bots and such from utilizing the FMS server. You can't connect unless the key matches one in the database. After that check, it had to connect to the FMS server. Only 10 allowed at once. So you may have to wait. Once you are in, you had to give permission to your microphone, then you had to record your audio. Once recorded you had to listen to it and if all was well you could then save it to your profile page.

What you don't know is that while that is going on, another oh say, 3000 lines of code I wrote, are doing their thing. I had to run a check that you stayed connected the entire time, and once you elected to save, had to ensure that the php did it's job and moved the file from the FMS server to your profile page. Yeah. that was a beast. But I did it. and all under 1MB total. Within this one audio recorder, there are 6 security checks. And did I mention it was for a web site that uses any and every language in the world? So I had to do it with hieroglyphics as well. Limited amount of words on the recorder because the site has to translate those words into any possible language. I also allowed for this language change to be done on the context (right-click) menu for the "help" link. It's pretty awesome. I am pretty proud of it. It isn't exactly final yet, but final enough. Little tweaks here and there to be done, but it is a great BETA release. I suggest you all go over there and test it out. Be BETA testers and let me know what is wrong with it so I can get it perfect!

I will be working some on the site in the coming weeks. And when the Flash area is open I will have a dumb-down model of the recorder here for you to see.

Until next time...

The Flash tutorial section is now operational and has an actual tutorial ready for your learning enjoyment!

The first tutorial is actually the 3rd tutorial in the Flash section to be made, but the first to be published.

With the new tutorial in place you will learn how to use Flash to create an animated favicon!

To view the tutorial head over to the Tutorial Section and click on the "Let's Make a Favicon" link.

Enjoy the tutorial and prepare for more to come. Bare in mind that the tutorial section is operational but is far from complete. There may be additions and changes made in the coming weeks. So keep your eyes out for those changes!

Until next time...

Writing has been a double edged sword for many many years. I love to write, and when it comes to scripts and novels I appear to be half way decent at it. The problem is that neither pay me yet. So, I have to work a real job in the mean time.

I also like to share things I know about to those that may not know, and so I have promised to revamp and restart my tutorial sections. Focusing on Flash tutorials as well as Web coding tutorials. But alas, it has proven to be a cumbersome and time consuming process. One that I am happy to do, but no longer will I make time constraint promises. I am only one person after all (at least the last time I checked).

So, where am I at? Why don't I have tutorials posted? Just what the hell is going on?, well let me tell you all about it...

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I know it has been longer than a week, and I apologize. I have decided to scrap the tutorial I was working on and move it down the list. It is not to say I don't want to do it, I just feel there are other ones that need to be done first.

So, that being said, I am working hard today, and possibly tomorrow, to finish up 1 of the first 3 tutorials I have planned. If all works out well I will be posting one in the next couple days.

With fingers crossed, and typing fast I am trying everything I can to get these out to you. I thank you for being patient with me as I get this site back up and running.

Until next time...

I am working on getting everything together and situated and will be releasing a new tutorial in the next week. The tutorial will cover 'how to Make an Animated Favicon using Flash."

It should be fun and exciting and just easy enough to get us all back in the swing of having a tutorial section.

For those of you wondering about the Flash games, I am still working on those as well and I haven't forgot you faithful who eagerly check your inbox for a Flash Newsletter everyday. Soon, Padawan, soon.

Until next time...

This is just a quickie post to inform everyone that there is a new sidebar link. (Look to the right ~~> ) You will see, the new links to the separate blogs: a Heading of "Negative Words Blogs" and below that, "Words" (that's THIS blog) and "Ramblings" (that's the new blog). The Ramblings Blog is where I will post the day to day type posts. Just things here and there that I come up with or come across in my daily goings-on. That will reserve the Words blog for the site updates and notifications it was intended for. You can read both of them, one of them, the other one of them, or none of them. Either way, the option is yours, and I am hoping that this will allow for some sort of semblance of organization. Depending on what information you want (be it Site related updates, or just my own personal wisdom that cannot be flawed nor disputed) you can now access it at your leisure. Happy reading.

So, it has taken me a while to get used to the new work schedule (5 - 12 hour days) plus stay on top of my school and such. But I think I have managed to figure out a good daily planner for my schedule that will allow me to get back to work on this site and the Flash games. For the Flash Card Game I have hit a mile stone. I have reached the point in programming where the time to write code has exceeded the time to play the game. This happens with just about every game development at some point.

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It has been said that blogging at work (as long as it is NOT your job) is something to be frowned upon. I disagree. Depending on your job of course, blogging while at work can help many aspects of the very job you are being delinquent in. Take myself and today for example. My job (in a nut shell) is to photograph cars, post them to the web and make CraigsList posts. Now had I actually been doing my job instead of reading about Famous people's adultery (way to go Ashley Cole, that Ann Corbitt is umm hot? - Not)I would never have come across the fact that I can make templates just like web pages for CraigsList.

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Tiger Woods aired a public apology today about his affairs and other wrong-doings in his personal life. Most cannot argue that the man is the best golfer in the history of golf. He has earned every dollar he has made, he has earned to have his name professionally recognized with greatness. He has also earned the right to have panties thrown at him whilst he sips tea on a boardwalk bistro. Not that that should happen.

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With a 1 hour 41 minute red flag, the fastest sport on land comes to a screeching halt. Not a ton happened during the race that claimed to be "back to what racing is supposed to be". Well, the wrecks weren't great, and the larger restrictor plate only added about 2 MPH over all. There were some thing we didn't expect, some things we did expect and few surprises.

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