Flash Project Timer

Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, Flash, GeneralNov 29th, 2005 | 29 Comments A project timer is something I have been needing. I have trouble keeping track of hours for projects I have. I usually don’t worry about time traking for my personal projects, which is good because if I thought about all the time I’ve spent (wasted), I might take up a new hobby. But for contract work and for projects at mediaRAIN, I need to keep track of time I spend on each project. I always forget to write something down at the end of the day, and usually can’t remember how long I’ve spent anyway. So, I made a project timer. It actually is built in Macromedia Flash,...

Tutorial? How About a Project!

Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, General, Object Oriented Programming, PHPSep 30th, 2005 | 3 Comments In writing the articles on object oriented programming I have stuck with theory. After all, it is not language specific and takes less space to say what there is to say. However, I have been asked by serveral to provide a tutorial or include examples on object oriented code. Well, I’ve decided to do something more. My good friend Andrew Branch has pointed out many times before that we learn better when we do things ourselves. And so, in that spirit, we will start a new full-fledged project together. I will write along as we develope it about how we should try to do things, so we can...

Mint, Stat’s and Design

Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, General, Javascript, PHPSep 14th, 2005 | 1 Comment Mint is a new product recently released to track the statistics on your website. It has gotten much attention from several areas, and I thought it would be worth it to check it out. I am currently using StatCounter.com to track the traffic to my site. It is really useful when you use their paid service which keeps track of more than the last 100 visits to your site (the free version cap). It lets you view all the regular stats as well as “drill down” to see the actual path a single visitor took through your site. But, it is a monthly subscription service, which means potenially...

Dreamweaver and CSS Still Don’t Play Nice

Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, CSS, GeneralSep 13th, 2005 | 2 Comments After hearing about the new CSS based workflow of Dreamweaver 8, which came out yesterday evening, I had high hopes that the rendering engine for CSS and HTML would have been improved. Disappointingly, this wasn’t the case. Why don’t they try using the rendering engines for Firefox, Safari, and even IE. The first two are now completely open for use and the latter would be smart to include even if there is a liscencing fee. mediaRAIN, my employer, uses Macromedia Studio because we specialize in Flash products. However, we do many HTML/PHP projects as well. Dreamweaver has always...

Another Product from Google

Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, GeneralAug 24th, 2005 | No Comments Google has just released Google Talk, an instant messaging and voice over IP client. It can be downloaded for free. The download was incredibley small, especially when compared with MSN Messenger and similar services. Google Talk doesn’t have any adds or stupid features you never use. It’s small, light-weight, and fast. One thing I would have liked is a feature where you could communicate with contacts that are using other services such as AIM, Yahoo IM, and MSN Messenger. But hopefully all my friends and family will use it soon so that I can get in touch with them through Google...