Well I thought it was about time that I use this blog for what I originally created for. I created it to talk about my experiences as a developer so I’m going to share my latest jump I’ve made into the land of actionscript 3. Just as a warning this post doesn’t really have any helpful tips, it’s more just me venting some thoughts about my personal experience with the new actionscript.

First off you must understand that got started in this business as a designer. I’ve always had a passion for design and I only really got into programing as a way to enhance my designs and make them come alive. So I started learning programing in actionscript 1. Now if you ask “real” programmers they will tell you how it was barely a real programing language. It was extremely simple and let you get away with a lot. So “real” programmers didn’t like it but as a designer I loved it. It made me feel smart and say “Hey look at me, I’m a programmer now too!”.

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In case anyone is worried that Test 1 Studios is going away or that it isn’t doing well, that’s not the case at all. In fact it is doing so well that I’m actually able to do what I originally set out to do when I first started the company. The goal of my production company, Test 1 Studios, has always been to create great web applications. It’s what I love doing. I always have had several ideas for some great applications but they take time and money to develop, and since I had neither of those, I needed a way to get both without signing my life away.

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Recently I entered a contest Adobe was having for a new Sync SWF SDK they’ve developed for their Breeze application. Breeze is a web conferencing application so the contest was asking for flash based add-ons that would help improve the overall collaboration experience. It sounded like a neat idea and it didn’t hurt that they were giving away cash prizes to the winners, the only problem was I didn’t find out about the contest until September 27 and the due date was September 30. Luckily I had recently been thinking about creating a flash based mind mapping application and so I thought it would be the perfect fit for the contest.

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Here is another one of my side projects I’ve been working on in my spare time, if there is such a thing. Lately I’ve been thinking about mixing to of my favorite things, web development and video games. That is probably the nerdiest sentence that I have ever written, but that’s ok. Nerd is the new cool right? The only problem with marketing to video game companies was I didn’t really have any samples of work that I’ve done that would translate into the video game market. So I decided to take my favorite game (Halo 2) and create a small application that would take the RSS feeds from the game developers site (bungie.net) and use those to show the stats from some of the previous games that I have played.

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So what is SnapPages? For those of you that haven’t seen this project I’ve been working on for quite some time, let me give you an overview. The idea is pretty simple. It’s basically a collection of online applications that I’ve developed in flash that allow you to organize and share different aspects of your life. Imagine if MySpace and Apple’s iLife were combined and you basically get the idea behind SnapPages.

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