Neglected Code Blog

So I tend to use prefixed comments on my own code to remind myself when I’m putting something off, or I’ve identified a problem but don’t have time to fix it. Stuff like //FIXME and //TODO are all over my code with instructions and sometimes even psuedo-code.The big problem for me is that I always forget where I left these comments. Today I finally took a second to skulk around for a cool eclipse plugin, and with help from a brilliant colleague and friend of mine, Michael Avila

http://www.richinternet.de/blog/index.cfm?entry=911D4B57-0F0D-5A73-AF6F4D4D04099757

So far I’m LOVING this little plugin. A++!:)

I’d like to announce something that I’ve been working on during the past month that I’ve been too busy with to announce. You might guess by the title of this post that I’m co-authoring the Adobe AIR Bible for Wiley Publishing. I’m excited to be working with Ben Gorton and Ryan Taylor, both colleagues that I met and have the pleasure of working with at Schematic. The Bible has been a lot of work so far, but so far it has been worth it. I really can’t express how excited I am to hold it in my hands and see it in bookstores, but I have several months of hard work ahead of me that I’ll be trying to survive.

I really am enjoying working with Ben and Ryan, and all the research and learning that goes into writing. Most of all I’m really enjoying the aspect of giving back to the Flash/Flex community and contributing to the learning experience of fellow developers. The book is shaping up pretty well and I hope for and look forward to it being as helpful as so many textbooks have been for myself.

We should be on the book shelves sometime in the spring of ‘08, so keep an eye out!

I spent my first four months at my new company, Schematic working with Roger Braunstein and Michael Avila on the all new Schematic.com. Here are some of the pages on the site that I’d like to highlight: MotionReel, Image/Video Media player, Our Clients.

Plenty of people have already blogged about this site, so I’ll list some of the interesting details, and then a list of blogs of people talking about it.

• Fully CMS driven
• Flash & Html support
• Serverside AIR Thumbnailer that generates Live thumbs of the CMS up-datable pages.
• SEO
• Badass UI and design!

People talking/talked about it:

• Roger
• Daniel W
• Warpspire