I wrote an Flex app yesterday as a demo of component lifecycle and metadata tag usage.

It’s a remake of the classic Gorillas game.

You can play it here.

The source code is here.

So I’ve had the joy of working with Windows Vista at work (not directly with, but more IT type stuff) so when people talk it down saying that it’s a resource hog (enter Aero) or that it only supports one and a half programs (explorer and half of MS Word) or its wonderful DRM (RAM upgrades are overrated anyway), I punch them in the face and tell them it’s a terrific OS. Anyway, word on the street is that the next version, the once dubbed Windows Vienna (now call Windows 7), is set to release in 2010.

And of course, we have a wikipedia entry already.

And here’s the compulsory screenshot:
(looks a lot like vista don’t it…that’s the way I like it :D)

This is actually kind of old news. Anyway, taaz is a website where you can do virtual makeovers for free.

I made a video yesterday

So the company I’m working for is currently hiring. We’re looking for a programmer to do work in Adobe Flex (basically building flash applications in actionscript). There’s no requirement that you know flex, only that you’ve programmed before in some normal language and have some basic fundamentals down (OOP and stuff..). If you’re at all interested, it doesn’t hurt to apply. (seriously, even I got the job…) It’s a lot of fun and you will get the opportunity to meet the author of this blog. :O

The details are here. I think the job is also posted on PortTriton (UCSD’s job search thing - where I found it) and Monster. The company website is here. Let me know if you have questions and such.

Good luck!

(until I figure out how to tag, this one’s for google: job opportunity, work, programming, photometria, money)

So I was going through some old stuff and I found a DVD in bad condition. I didn’t know what was on it since it was just labeled “Frank’s Stuff”.

This is how I cleaned it:

Metacafe link hereIt worked beautifully.

Turned out to be a bunch of my old stuff. Made my day.

There are five people living with me at the moment and we have a Netgear router that only has 4 ports (and wireless of course). I wanted to set up my D-Link router as a hub so that we could stay on the same network. This is how I did it. (It should work with most routers)

My hardware:

• D-Link-524
• Netgear WGR614
• (Shitty) AT&T DSL

Steps to do it:

1. Configure one router normally, setting wireless or whatnot to whatever you’d like. (This was the Netgear router)
2. Turn on the second router and plug in a computer (in a LAN port) so that you can log in.
3. Configure whatever wireless settings you’d like on the second router (or turn it off if you’d like).
4. Disable DHCP on the second router so that the first router handles assigning IP addresses.
5. Connect the first router (from a LAN port) to the second router (to a LAN port - if you connect to the WAN port, it won’t work).

That should be it.