08 Oct 2004
Have been sick for last two days. Recovering from cold and fever. We have some work load as well as some training sessions everyday.
Its fun doing all these, sometimes tiring also :)
Well, nothing much to update as I have not seen much in San Francisco. I hope, I will take sometime to explore.
Yeah! I have been to Love Parade, this was the first time it happened in USA. It was nice to see such an event. Love Parade is kind of moving techno-musical parade where many-different DJs play music. It was crowdy, generally you don’t see so many people together in San Francisco. That day, Love parade started from a place very close to my apartment and moved to SBC park. SBC park is a place where most of the major baseball games in San Francisco are played.
I didn’t have a camera by that time so I couldn’t click some pictures in Love Parade but it would have been nice to click some pics. So I decided to buy one and bought a canon camera same evening albeit it costed a lot(almost $510 including camera, international warranty, charger and sales tax..its really high) because of my hasty decision of buying it. Later I found that a site offering something in quite less and deal could have been nice here. Anyways, now I have taken so should not regret :)...Its cool camera though.
Lately, I am trying to have more grip on FLEX. Its somewhat very new to me. BTW! I have not worked in Flash IDE for last two months, I feel bad :(.
I must say, you can really make RIAs very fast in FLEX because of Rich class/component library and data services. Moreover, developer can work in one scope i.e. a text editor, very friendly. BTW there is a non-commercial license available for FLEX. Lot more easier now for developers to deploy non-commercial apps.
28 Sep 2004
It was first day in our 606 Townsend office. I met, Vera outside of 600 Townsend office. She was passing by and I recognized her as soon as I saw :). We had little chat then and later also.
I also saw Mike while he was in a meeting. So I could not talk to him today. I hope to see him tommorow.
I also saw Manisha Masher of Central team. Its a great feeling to see these people in person.
Why I am writing all these ? Because, I have seen photographs of some of the good or the best Flash developers, Macromedia people, Macromedia offices and different Flash conferences over two three years. These pictures always worked as inspiration to me and motivated me.
Today I am among some of the best developers in Macromedia, I am learning something everyday. I want to be like them, want to be doing great stuff, want to have good fundas of programming, maths, datastructures etc etc and ofcourse want to contribute to products as much as I can. I know, wishes never end...
But I really have a long way to go, even after four years of experience, I am finding myself as fresher here. Lot of things to do, 24 hrs of day or 30 days of month or 365 days of a year is not enough. I really have a long way to go.
I hate to talk about myself and my dreams. But I really don’t have anything to post. I want to post something useful, but for now please bare with posts about myself :)
27 Sep 2004
A set of classes for creating different type of animations can be found here.
I thought to post as I personally find them very useful. Hope it helps someone...
26 Sep 2004
Yeah, I am in San Francisco now. I reached here yesterday after a long flight of some thiry hours.
I could see Bangalore, Bangkok airport, Osaka airport, Los Angles and SF airport. I mean, my flight came through all these airports.
We were around four hours in Bangkok airport, then around one hour in Osaka airport and around four hours in LA airport. All of these airports are cool.
The place where I am staying is very beautiful and infact entire SF is very very beautiful. I will try to post pics after sometime.
We, entire team, went out with some of our USA collegues to see some places like PIER 2, PIER 39 etc.
Well I(and Manish) am sitting in cafe called South Beach Cafe, which is not a cybercafe, its a normal cafe and they provide internet access. You need to have Wi-Fi enabled notebook. We(Manish and I) were very trying to get connected to internet and we got to know about this cafe after a research of entire day. Cybercafes, unlike India, are not very common here.
I am feeling very sleepy now because of Jet-Lag but I don’t want to sleep. I guess, its one of the ways to minimize or avoid it. Well I am also reading about it actually feeling but reading the causes and how can I avoid it next time.
Apart from all these, food is problem for me. I prefer veg stuff and most of things are here non-veg :(. But I have enough stock of maggie(noodles) and other things so that I can survive.
Just had a cup of Espresso coffee, its very hard, so ordering Mocha and I will go after this.
Manish’s blog must be having interesting stuff, as he gone through interesting incidents...
Note: Would check for spell or typo mistakes later...Not reviewing the post..feeling sleepy...
22 Sep 2004
I am going to Macromedia HQ for two months training. For this visit, I had to really work hard. Got my passport done under Tatkaal scheme, then VISA fight, then VISA waiting...
This evening, T.T. Service confirmed that I will get my passport with VISA tommorow morning and I have flight tommorow evening. What a timing :)
Thanks GOD, things have been going very smooth and in favour so far. I hope, it goes like this. I learn most out of the training camp and do things very well in MM.
I know, good luck comes by good wishes of parents and friends. I thank to all of my friends who have wished for me..
I will be able to blog from SF, if I am not too busy checking out things in SF ;)
18 Sep 2004
Manish Jethani, our *nix geek and friend of mine, got 91% score in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Certification exam. This is really good score after only one week preparation.
Congrats! Manish...keep it up dude :)
17 Sep 2004
I am going to my home town “Kanpur” and I am in trian right now. Using my reliance phone and T40 notebook to blog...
Its fun and good timepass...provided network connectivity and battery power are available throughout the journey...
11 Sep 2004
PowerSDK PRIM is a framework which provides runtime primitive types in Flash Player.
PRIM is a general framework for creating primitive types within the player and is extensible. Even better is the included event model, allowing you to receive events when a primitive value is modified without watching or polling the value for changes.
Ted Patrick made this. He is the one who keeps doing innovative work and kick ass project. These days, he is busy in FLOW and some python based server I guess.
He has made PRIM free and open . More details can be found here.
I have been part of PRIM Beta. I could not contribute much except reading comments and posting my ideas.
But it was nice project, a different kind of project.
07 Sep 2004
Today I cleared Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Developer Certification with 89%. Yes, 89%, the same percentage I got in Macromedia Flash MX Developer Certification.
Today was holiday, so slept entire day. I woke around 3:00 PM and made my mind to take this exam. I called up to local VUE authorized center (DEXLER, Bangalore) and took a time.
Literaly, no prepartion just practical experiences with Dreamweaver helped me to get a score of 89%. I am feeling good...
Flash MX 2004 Developer exam is next in queue.
If you are looking for some hints, as I said above, practical experience is important. Reading a book and passing the exam would be an exceptional case. I recommend, playing with Dreamweaver MX 2004, reading help docs and following sample tutorials in help. That’s it, you will have enough confidence to face any question. And don’t forget to look at the exam guidlines and sample questions on macromedia.com. It would really help you while preparation.
Hope it helps..
02 Sep 2004
I joined Macromedia India on August 30. Things are going fine, people are very friendly here and most of them are new. I am finding this place cool because so much to learn here.
I hope I will do well here...