Life Student, Polymath, Creator

So considering my last entry was well over 3 years ago*, I’m not even going to try to update you on what has happened in my life. Just know it has been awesome.

I’ve had the chance to move across the country to Seattle, WA where I worked and lived for a bit(20 months) and now I’m in the Bay Area working for Endorse.com.

So while setting this “new” blog up I got to clean up all my old posts and realized I’m used to suck at finishing stuff. Well hopefully that has changed.

Expect posts of coding, crafts, DIY, and reviews. Hope at least someone out there enjoys my thoughts.

Cheers!

*Well there were updates to a blog since then but I lost all that when I switched hosting providers. So here’s to constant backups in the future.

Hey kiddies, looks like Pittsburgh is getting it’s very own Flash conference, FlashPitt…

I’m super excited about this as it has been in the mix for some time. For more info check out www.flashpitt.com and the official press release is as follows.

Flashpitt 2008 Announced

Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Media conference announced for Pittsburgh

Another push for Pittsburgh’s new media and web technologies market: aconference that will bring some of the big names in the national Flash community to the “Steel City” in October.

PITTSBURGH, PA [April 15, 2008] On the Fridge LLC and the Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group (PittMFUG) announce the first Flash-centric New Media conference for the Pittsburgh area. Flashpitt 2008 will take place on October 10th 2008 at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh. National industry leaders will be present to educate, inspire, and engage the region’s New Media community.

Flashpitt 2008 is for the Pittsburgh region’s designers, artists, students, and developers working with Flash, Flex and AIR. Two tracks of sessions will run from 9am until 6pm. The day will be finished off with an after party full of fun and networking opportunities.

Visit www.flashpitt.com to sign up for the event notifications mailing list and to be notified when tickets for the event go on sale.

FlashPitt 2008 – Dates, Times and Location:

Friday, October 10, 2008. 9:00am – 6:00pm
Sheraton Station Square Hotel 300W Station Square Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15219

About On the Fridge, LLC

On the Fridge, LLC was created in Pittsburgh for Pittsburgh’s New Media community. Our goal is to enrich the region’s New Media community by providing inspiring and educational events.

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Media Contacts

For any inquiries, please contact:
Val Head
On The Fridge LLC
Phone: 716.560.2731
Email: val@flashpitt.com

Joe Kromer
On The Fridge LLC
Phone: 724.316.5175
Email: joe@flashpitt.com

Flashpitt is a production of on the fridge, llc and the PittMFUG

I was doing my usual freelance work at my favorite coffee shop and was graced by the ever ridiculous presence of my buddy iJustine. The usual techy, twitter, new media chit-chat ensued as well as some friendly competition of dinglepops and blockles and finally though some strange turn of events this was conceived. Enjoy!

This is a response post to my post from November about how Verizon hates Twitter.

This past Monday I returned from a 2 week backpacking trip around Europe, covering Spain, Germany and Austria. On my return I received one of the greatest gifts ever, Twitterand Verizon now play nice and I get all my updates even the ones with “@” symbols.

Thanks bunches people at Twitter for taking care of this issue in a somewhat timely manner.

I’ve been away from the internets for a bit, just returned from a 16 day back packing trip around Spain, Germany and Austria. I get back to check out some Google Maps Street Viewand what do I find a little Leprecon instead of the usual yellow guy we all are used to. I think he is quite fun, thanks for brighting my day a lil, Google.

Me being a proud Adobe user and getting a slew of stickers recently(see this post) was surprised to see that Lee Brimelow has the same taste in stickers. Check out Lee’s video about MacWorld over at his blog. At around 2:15 is where he shows off his MacBook Pro.

I saw this post from a lady over at Adobe. So I followed the directions, and sent a self adressed stamped envelope to her and a week later I had my stickers. So Thanks Heidi from Adobe.

I recently had the situation where I had to create an array of 25 random numbers from 0-24, but no number could be repeated in the array. So after a little bit of racking my brain I came up with this.

//create an array to hold the numbers
var numArray:Array = new Array(25);

// create an array to hold the used numbers
var usedNumArray:Array = new Array(25);

for (i = 0; i < = 24; i++){
	pickNum(i);
}

// run functions to get a random number and put in it the array
function pickNum(i:Number){
	var num:Number;
	do{
		//set num to a random number between 0-24
		num = getRandNum();
		//set the numArray[i] to the random number
		numArray[i] = num;
		//make sure the number is a new number
	}while(usedNumArray[num]);
	//if its a new number set the usedNumArray[num] to true
	usedNumArray[num]=true;

	//trace it back to make sure it works
	if(i == 24){
		trace(numArray)
	}
}

// get random number
function getRandNum():Number{
	return Math.floor(Math.random()*25);
}

I don’t know if its the best way to handle it but it works. If there is a better way please let me know.

I attended in Chicago and had a really freakin’ good time, learning a bunch about AS 3.0. On a good note it was very class heavy which is something I have been wanting to learn. Now a few days later I’ve been working with the Public Beta of Flex 3, teaching myself how to use classes. Hopefully I will have some examples to post, soon.

I don’t know what the deal is but for some unknown reason when I get Twitter updates to my cell phone(Verizon Motorola RAZR V3m) if they include an “@” symbol anything after the “@” symbol doesn’t show up. The biggest problem with this is that most of the time when an “@” symbol is included in a tweet it is the first thing, therefore I get lots and lots of blank twitter updates. Which angers me to no extent, what does a person have to do around here to get some Twitter updates.

Just to make stuff clear I love me some Twitter and hate me some Verizon.

The real Twitter update:

What I get: