Not blogging here as much

There are too many different places these days to blog at. What software to use? Where will the people who need this information find it? Will they care when they do? Twitter seems to be totally useless, but I find myself looking at what others are doing once or twice a week. But then again I am a geek. I only know 1 person well that is what I'd deem non-geek. How sad is that?

So, I have a blog on the UG's website (www.kcwebcore.org and we use Ray Camden's CF blog) that I normally use. Today I was directed here from Ted Patrick's blog after entering a comment. Hmmm. Why have I abandoned Blogger? So... I think I'll look into other examples of blog software/online solutions and see what others are using. I am going to bet right now, it's WordPress that gets the vote. Who knows.

So, my big dilemma these days is to break out of the designer mold and become a better at AS. Not that I wouldn't like to learn other languages, cause I would. I'd like to learn MySQL too, but I am l already certified in 5 Adobe programs, so why don't I just get better at the ones I do know. I teach Flash, but the designer classes, not the hard hitting AS classes. I've taken many AS classes before, but the designer brain in me can't seem to grasp the concepts. For instance, Methods have always eluded me as to when to use what in AS. Now it's true OOP, which I like, so it's time to woman-up and learn the stuff.

What gets me from the books out there, is that for designers, they try and use stupid analogies of People as the human class. Blah, blah blah. Give me an example I'd use? Teach me how I'd write my own darn code. I can follow along just fine. It's writing my own code that hurts my designer brain. I'll try and watch the Lynda.com videos. I'll try and read the books. I am so far behind it seems. I am glad I could only get so far in 2.0 now. I like OOP, so I am glad to use it instead. I like Flex and AIR. I've had training in both, and it makes total sense while I am sitting in the chair listening. It does. I am a XHTML hand coder. I love writing CSS by hand. What is the stupid mental block I have about AS? Who knows.