The current project I’m working on requires an Adobe Flash process. Over my career I’ve actively avoided anything to do with Flash. For the non-geeks of the world, Flash is a language for doing lots of pizzazzy stuff on a website, including moving things, playing movies, and such. There’s a lot of technical reasons why I don’t particularly like Flash. However, today I’ve spent much of the day learning the programming language for generating Flash content to be put on a website. The language is called ActionScript. I bought a couple of books on ActionScript at the Barnes and Noble store in Idaho Falls last Friday. One book is 900 pages long, the other is 560 pages long.

Adobe has a number of tutorial videos available (also Flash content) and I spent quite a bit of time working through a couple of them. I’m getting close to where I can actually do the work I’ve been contracted to do. It is fun learning something new, although I don’t think I’ll use this very much.

It was warm enough today (the warmest day of the year so far) that I actually considered turning on the air conditioning. I didn’t. It’d sure be nice to have about a month between turning off the furnace and turning on the air conditioning. I’m not murmuring, mind you, just observing….

TTFN!