ManMeng's Lifepad

Daylight Robbery (Again)

Update 21st July 2008 :
Added the video in youtube for your viewing pleasure. Do not be conned by all these con artist anymore!

This time around it’s the time around the year again, I’m conned! By those irresponsible bus conductor illegally selling tickets to poor humble Malaysians that is seeking transport back to their hometown. I can’t express how much disappointed or even depressed looking at the state we’re in, to cheat in earning money. God damn it.

Nothing beats from realizing your hard-earned money getting conned by those fake ticket seller, that supposingly makes you pay RM50 for a trip back to Kuala Lumpur. The price of the ticket might have hiked result from the petrol hike, but the actual fact it is suppose to be sold at around RM30. What adds to the pain is that the local stores insists on not selling tickets to me! Saying that it’s sold out and only operational up to 10PM. This is madness.

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Time Drifters

It is the fourth month and to come, and almost half a year I’m here. Time passes so fast I barely remembered what had happened during the last 2 month. Both exciting, exhausting and thrilling at least. One of the event was to celebrate my boss’s birthday at Cafe Del Mar in Sentosa. Which it’s a place that I’ve never been before. Excitingly, me and my other 3 colleague never been there before as well, which led us to…

Somewhere uphill, and walking down the drips of the rain. This is due to the taxi driver that drove just right into Sentosa and left us uphill near the golf turf.

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Busting AS3’s Myths

Mythbusters Video Voting Minisite
Another good practice for me to debunk all my questions on AS3 right away. Took quite a while for the power to kick in, but I really felt using best practice in AS3 really does fastens up productivity by a lot.
That is not only applying for myself, but imagining there will be another colleague of yours that might need to change your code in case you are not there, temporarily. Full fledge Tweener class in AS3 is used inside as you can see.

Minimal animation at this point because I’m not sure if it is appropriate to go all crazy with my limited knowledge on AS3. On the other, I noticed error handling are certainly way better and detailed than AS2/AS1 counterparts, though it might be a serious pain in the ass when the compiler keeps bitching on missing or unknown objects.

What other benefits I have learnt from there? Loading objects and controlling them are becoming more structural, if it’s a correct word to use, which means sending and receiving data will be more “organized”. Even controlling of video object (flv) is easy, and I can easily retrieve the playheadTime on the fly. But of course one of the biggest myth debunked that, learning AS2 in advance does help you to-know which object to use for an interaction, although the calling method might be entirely different now.

offtopic – have I mentioned I totally enjoyed http://www.thesixtyone.com ?

WESATELLITES.COM

Phew, finally after days of sleepless night. Literally. This thing is born. Full blown AS3-ism. *Pats on my back*

http://www.wesatellites.com

Site mechanics? Was fortunate to play around with the AS3’s computeSpectrum inside. You can see real time visualisation of the song itself. Compiling time was a pain in the ass seriously when you have a lot of bad habit from AS2. You’ll get ton of undefined or unknown error. But for godness sake, I learnt the hard way and noticed there’s a lot of bad habit that I need to shave off. But the real challenge would lie on the full scale video itself. Didn’t really work initially as planned and a lot of stuff needs to be considered for performance when we scale everything up.