Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Not enough hours in the day!

Most of my time at the moment is being taken up with projects for other subjects so my allocated project time has taken a bit of a hit. My java assignment (worth 20% of the year) is due next week and I'm having terrible trouble with it so have had to spend extra time on it. Not the nicest experience of my life so I'm looking forward to having it finished so i can forget about it. The frustration is overwhelming! Next week I plan to make up the extra hours as I'll have most of the big projects that I have hanging over me in by then. Also today I handed up my final project proposal as requested by Pat. One tick off the list at least!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

I can see the light...

I've given up on java for the moment as Liz has given me some good advice on how to go about starting the fuctionality using actionscript. I must say it was a pleasant suprise as I'm much more comfortable programming in Flash. There's loads of stuff available to read in the Flash help file so i'll be busy reading for the next few days!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Back with a bang...

It's college time again. Ive spent the holidays designing more flyers and trying to find out what needs to be done to get the technical side of the project off the ground. I'm sorry to say I've not had much luck with it. Liz advised me to fill the xml file externally using java. I've had a look on the internet and can't find any code to get me started. I've found a couple of forums where people have asked how to do it but none of the posts had any replies :( I'll keep you posted on my developments...