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I am Going to Kill Myself with Poorly Written Code

2010-02-26

Recently I have been knee deep in learning ASP.NET for one of my classes. At the same time I have been attempting to pick up some Actionscript for a project at my internship. Saying it has been less than a year since I learned to code at all, and this is my first venture into object oriented and strictly typed code it has made for some long nights.

Last night I was up until about 1am working on some Actionscript for the Flash project at my internship.Figuring out how code works on Flash's timeline has been trial by fire as well. Last night I struggled with getting a Flash movie to play backwards and as the function ran back through the time line they would run over other functions that would execute, functions that wern't supposed to execute and had no approprate termination for the time in which they launched, causing them to run forever, in an infinite loop. Realizing what was going on I had an idea how to fix it, but decided to wait for the next day until I try to actually fix it.

At about 6 am I startle myself awake, woken by a nightmare. My dreaming mind had convinced me that if I accidently wrote an infinite loop, I wouldn't wake up. I'm not sure if my subconcious thought that I was programing my alarm clock and it would fail to wake me for work, or if I was actually programing my brain and if I accidently put in an infinite loop I would be stuck in sleep mode forever. Either way, I was too scared to fall back asleep.

Apparently my brain is not wired correctly to cope with coding.

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How Well is Sarcasm Conveyed through Blog?

2009-09-04

This is my second blog update, I think it is a big improvement over the 1st update.

I have decided that this blog will be dedicated to my Ayn Rand fan fiction, which a quick Google search disapointingly shows me actually exists.


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Because I needed one of these

2009-09-04

I don't know what I will ever post here. As this site is linked to my professional portfolio I can't rant about how much I secretly hate my friends and co-workers, or go on about my extreme right wing ideology. If I did it would all but make sure I could never land or keep a job anywhere...

So I think this will be my area to keep fresh on my CSS, Javascript and possibly practice XML, SQL or PHP. There is no comment system as of yet because I don't know how to create one. When and if I learn, I don't know if I will want a comment system anyways.

I have only tested this site on IE8 and Firefox 3.5 on Windows, I will test it on Linux shortly, and will probably never test it on Safari, Chrome or Opera.

For a further enthralling web experience, visit my portfolio @ nickramsey.net


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