Waxing Lyrical

I was, as you can see below, intending to write a summary of each day at the course. However I had a business meeting tuesday evening till late, then every night after that I got too caught up in playing with flex to do any blogging :)

The course was great - we learned a great deal and I'm very much looking forward to doing some real work in the technology. Actionscript 3 is a brilliant language, and the combination of AS3 and MXML is fantastic. Flexbuilder itself has a whole raft of fantastic features and all in all it's just a brilliant, fun and powerful way to build applications.

Poor Robin Hilliard though - he caught some kind of bug and was feverish on thursday although he struggled bravely through the whole day, but he was very ill on friday and had to have Justin McLean take over for him. Hope you're feeling better Robin!

I had a great time, and am now working on a couple of flex apps. During the course Robin mentioned a playstation iToy game and it gave me an idea for my first flex app. I'm writing a game of pong where you can move your hands in front of the webcam to control the paddles. It's working nicely so far, I just have to tweak the motion tracking to be a bit more sensitive - once I have it running I'll post it on the blog along with source code.

I'll post a couple of the intermediate steps too - some stuff on general motion tracking etc. It's a lot of fun :)