Jeff Winkworth's IMM Blog

I’ve spent a majority of the evening trying to install tikiwiki to the server for our client project to have somewhere to communicate. After about 2 hours of playing with it, I’ve decided that this is not the CMS I think we want. Not knowing much about the world of CMS, my jaw dropped when a quick search on (none other than) wikipedia revealed so many wiki software models. I’m going to have to explore these in more detail I think.

While in class today we discussed Functions and Methods in AS3. I was taken aback when i saw this:


public class myClass {
    public function Programming() {
        function myFunction():void {
        }
        myFunction();
    }
}

That blew my mind! How is this object-oriented? I thought AS3 was supposed to be a step forward in OOP-based standards. Instead, Adobe is enabling spaghetti code. If you need to reuse a block of code, why not make it private? That way you can re-use that piece of code anywhere whenever you need it.

Yesterday during AD, we wrote “our first ActionScript” program. While to me the code-behind was nothing new, one thing that bothered me was the Flash layout, in particular the “compile code” feature. As in most IDEs (such as VS.Net) this feature will compile and run your current iteration of code straight from the development environment. However, being used to VS, I found numerous times throuhgout the day I was running my application without changes; in VS hitting F5 will save all documents and compile, while in flash hitting ctrl+enter will just recompile without saving. I imagine that this will take some getting used to.

It is little differences like this that make people wary of learning computer programming.