Eamonn Faherty

I have recently discovered the wealth of information available at the Adobe devnet site.

I have been reading about the options surrounding video. I never took an interest in video when it first starting taking off so I was a little left behind. I decided to have a google for help and found some amazing resources on the devnet site. There are articles about the recording of material, the types and options for encoding and the different mechanisms of distribution.

Thank you Adobe.

This is when I wish I was a geekstar with a few thousand blog subscriptions.

What drives you?

Do you care about the short, medium or long term goals in your career?

Do you care about respect from your peers, money or responsibilities or something else?

Check Maslows hierarchy of needs for more wants…

I may sound a little cheesy here but I want to do the right thing and I want a company that believes in the same morals as me. I want a company who respects my views and one that can recognise my abilities and wants to reward me for them. I am not saying that my current employer is failing, but I do not feel that all my efforts are recognised and that is a little frustrating.

Do you recommend that I freelance, to build up an experience of multiple teams with bleeding edge technologies or stay where I am for the security? It is a tough choice!

I will post more soon, but for now I am a little tipsy (as you can probably guess) and very tired!

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Heather and I are stuck! We do not know where to live. Greater London is huge and we are so lost. We have looked around Islington, Enfield and Eastcote. Here is what we found:

Islington
-ve : Expensive
-ve : Very busy
+ve : Nice building
+ve : Close to work
+ve : Close to family

Eastcote
-ve : Too far away
-ve : Too expensive considering how far away it is
+ve : Nice building

Stoke Newington
-ve : Expensive
+ve : Close to work
+ve : Close to family
+ve : Really nice building

Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!

We are going to look some more next week so I will post stuff then!

I was trialing Eggplant today at work. It is a vnc client that can capture images and use them to find regions to click or to compare state.

I was using it to automate the smoke testing of our flash based games. The idea is great and the software has some really good points. You can highlight sections of the screen to create images and tell the software to scan the screen for the image later. Once found, you can tell the software to click on the image or assert its presence. This worked pretty well and even the capturing of the image was pretty good.

However, the product seems pretty immature. It felt like an alpha release. The first version of the software was programmed for Mac OSX and was later ported over to Linux. I think it was using OpenStep and so I think (and hope) the Mac version is far more stable. The Linux version had many issues, icons moving around screens loosing their relationships etc.

This is inspired by the view from my window.  I want to build up a full, interactive, 3d model of a council estate.  I am learning Papervision and so this stuff is slow and rough around the edges!

You can move the mouse left and right to rotate the building and you can use the arrow keys to move the camera around.

Yes, I am finally getting into some iPhone development! I have a master plan to release 8 apps (yes 8 apps!) in the next 18 months. I will apply for my license after I have produced 4 apps so watch this space for updates and tutorials!

We had our wedding photographers around for dinner. They are really nice people! I would definitely recommend them. They are Hugh Hill and Marta Demartini from http://www.hmdigiart.com/

Their work looks amazing and I cannot wait to see what the pictures are like!  I will be sure to post them here after the wedding!  You should check out the work of Hugh Hill on the url above.  He does some really interesting work with social injustice.  The pictures speak for themselves.

I read this post and it got me thinking.

Learning is probably the most important thing to a developer, it is to me at least. I get a horrible feeling when I am not learning anything. I get bored, frustrated and become a pain to live with. As a developer, if you do not continue learning you will become dusty and will be eventually stuck on a shelf somewhere.

In the last year I have tinkered with Python, Ruby on Rails and Ant. I feel like I have learnt a lot, but I still feel like I am at the edge of a huge iceberg slipping off. I think this is because I haven’t really got into any Actionscript 3D or video programming.

I have decided to freeze the development of Checkstyle AS3 (not that it was going anywhere at the moment) and to freeze the work in Rails in order to pick up on some 3D Actionscript programming. I will be posting updates on what I am doing and will even include some example code (don’t expect it to be bleeding edge!).

As for my life outside of the world of programming, WOW! Not World of Warcraft, WOW! Heather and I are looking for a place to buy for September and the wedding plans are steaming ahead! I will post more info in the next week!