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I recently did a presentation for at DePaul University here in Chicago, for Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines. The talk focuses more on my view of Creativity as applied to Rich Internet Applications, and how I apply an Agile methodology in order to iterate quickly, and get a working product out of the door.

These are my “slides”… Well I Love Flash, and Hate PowerPoint. Google Docs is okay, but if I’m going to present I’m going to use the tools I use everyday, which in turn makes for a pretty cool presentation. I used OpenZoom for the presentation, its kind of a nice format if you have ALOT of ideas… but don’t feel like shrinking them into puny little slides.

OpenZoom Presentation

So let’s talk about spaceships… I mean Stratalogica.

Stratalogica has been my life for about the past year. It is a teaching tool for geography and history wrapped around Google Earth (for short). Roundarch the company I work for teamed up with Nystrom a division of Herff-Jones, to try and create a new platform to interact with their content. Long story short we came up with Stratalogica.

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I haven’t posted in a while, but in the past 6-9 months I’ve been working on some pretty cool stuff. Stratalogica Check it out. Through it I’ve been learning some really nice perks, especially FP10. That along with Python, which is a pretty sweet language… but this is about AS3… maybe some JAVA.

First off Event Priority, that little number we get use to always setting 0 (if you actually set it, otherwise it’s always 0….

this.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, someFunction,false,0,true);
//or just
this.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,somefunction) //always  0

Anyways sometimes you want certain components to respond before others do, so bump this number up some, the higher the number the higher the priority.

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