Monthly Archives: April 2009

FTOB: Installing Flash and Flex Bundles on Textmate

Originally posted on 10/9/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com This is important because it allows me to use textmate as my editor. I freaking love textmate. For instructions of how to do this go here: http://flashalisious.com/2007/07/30/installing-as3-and-flex-bundle-for-textmate/ Do what he says, copy and paste the code he gives into the terminal all at once and press enter. Terminal will [...]

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FTOB: Installing MTASC on Mac OS 10.5.5

Originally posted on 10/9/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This was easy enough: Download the Mac OSX package from http://www.mtasc.org/#download Unzip it and change the name of the folder to “mtasc” for ease of use Put the unzipped folder in your Applications directory Put a new entry in your .bash_login file that says: export PATH=”/Applications/mtasc:$PATH”

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FTOB: Installing the Flash SDK on Mac OS 10.5.5

Originally posted on 10/3/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com Vague instructions from the book led me to my first roadblock. Can’t blame ‘em, there’s just to many OSs out there to write for all of them. But we’re smart right? Right. This video includes step by step instructions for how to install the Flex SDK and the correct [...]

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FTOB: Open Source Flash on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

Originally posted on 10/3/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com I haven’t written for a while but there’s no time for apologizing. I decided (after years of swearing I never would) its time to learn flash. I’m doing this totally open source, so I’m going to post all the steps it takes to get up and running in sequence, [...]

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FTOB: New British Coin Designs

Originally posted on 4/5/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com My girlfriend and I are house sitting this week while our friends are in Hawaii. They have four cats and a dog, good wine, and a lot of food in the fridge. I’ve been going on lots of walks, entertaining friends, and cooking, but precious little javascript. I do [...]

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FTOB: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

Originally posted on 3/29/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ I always feel a mixture of excitement and dread when I start a new technical book. I’m about to dive into the intimidatingly thick JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan. Javascript guru Douglas Crockford mentioned in his wonderful series of lectures that it was the best (or did [...]

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FTOB: Blogging in the heat of the moment

Originally posted on 3/27/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This was originally a reply to liverbones’ comment of my last post, but it became long so I gave it a home of its own. Just about every day I run across some design or technical problem that I can only solve through blogs or message boards. Its an [...]

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FTOB: MillhollandCycles.com

Originally posted on 3/26/2008 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This is a progress report on MilhollandCycles.com, website I am building for my brother Greg, who builds bicycles in our house in Portland. His bikes are great. He built me the coolest fillet braised mountain bike that languishes in the basement while I try to save enough cash to [...]

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From The Old Blog: What this is all about

Originally posted on 3/26/2008 on http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This is my first attempt at a blog.  I plan on being faithful to it. The point of this blog is to write about my journey from aspiring web designer to the real thing.  By “real thing” I mean making my living designing and developing websites.  I’ve been working [...]

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Blogging is the first thing to go

You know when you get real busy and you just have to cut some corners?  Well, there you go. The next few posts will be reposts from my blog that I started at: http://likesalmon.wordpress.org/ They will be denoted with the leader: From The Old Blog or FTOB. Going forward, I plan to use this blog [...]

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