Changes:
- The rat race starts again.
- I am working only part time (25%). Feels great.
- Working on the second alpha release of my online blog editor (updated here)
- Got a projector for some experiments.
- Visited Linz (Ars Electronica) and Berlin and met Luke (after 9 Months).
ActionScript 3 with Flash RC 10:
I gave (after 4 years) ActionScript and Flash a second try. Version 10 of the player which is currently available as a release candidate (i think) offers some very nice features. Namely real 3d support. Stuff we hand coded and faked by the time I was involved can now be done in a very natural way. With the introduction of Flex and the SDK, you can get rid of the Flash IDE which is, from my point of view, fairly unusable and expensive for a developer. Started with a eclipse plug-in and now moved over to textmate - coding ActionScript 3 is much more fun than some years ago. gotoandlearn.com has some great videos. Yesterday I tried to mock up an actionscript client for the badmojo editor, as some things would be much easier to code in the flash environment. maybe I will put the prototype online this or next week.
GWT 1.5 Released
The Google team finally released Google Web Toolkit 1.5. I’ve used and tested it since 1.5 Milestone Release 1 (i am using GWT since release 1.2). Java 1.5 language features, Generics and all those nice improvements saved my life the last few months. Thanks to all team members and contributors!
I am thinking about integrating Google Gears into the blog service. While it would not really offers functionality for me, it could help me persisting the current active blog entry. At least it would be integrated right from the start. On the other hand I can not afford to over-engineer this project. While still in alpha the code base went from some hundred to some thousand lines of source code. In a normal software project this is not a problem, but with a GWT and thus script-based web app, size matters. 200k of scrambled, compressed (not gzipped) javascript is impressive. and there is other stuff that is much more important at the moment.
peace p.
