Using get set accessor to access instance variable is a good practice in object oriented programming. Many OOP languar supports accessor shortcuts. For example, Objective-C supports using @property tag instead of writing two individual get / set pair functions. However, There is no such shortcuts in ActionScript that we have to explicitly write the two get set functions even They are the template one. This can be a time consuming process.

Recently Flex Builder supports automatically generate those getter setter at the end of the class definition. I am doubting if there are such snippets for TextMate.

After searching on Internet. I do found one for AS2. It is a ruby script for TextMate that prompt a list of the instance variables and you can choose one and it generate the get set accessor of that variable.

That’s the half way of my goal. Therefore, I modify the code and make it AS3. I also make two version of the snippets. One version follows the original concept that prompt a list to let user choose one instance variable. The other will generate accessors for all instance variables immediately.

This is a sunset timelapse video that recorded outside my home. It is recorded by iTimelapse Pro for iPhone. I used the GorillaMobile as the tripod.

This recording is a failure actually. I would call it “Competition between Sunset and iPhone battery”

]]> http://makzan.me/blog/sunset-time-lapse/feed/ 3 http://makzan.me/blog/real-time-web-collaborating-possibility/ http://makzan.me/blog/real-time-web-collaborating-possibility/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:50:34 +0000 Makzan http://makzan.me/blog/?p=68 ]]>

The server configure of makzan.net is changed from administrator and the domain can’t transfer out from the original hosting. This make several problems such as no mod_rewrite and no SSH access. That’s the reason I moved my domain and hosting.

We are flush of new information and knowledge every day because of the web 2.0. When Internet was introduced, there is little information because only web designer make websites and share information. After the web 2.0 revolution began, every one suddenly becomes writer. Every one builds a blog and starting sharing their thoughts. A new tutorial or new methodology spreads quickly around the world because of the social networks. Moreover, the mobile technology makes reading and browsing Internet on the street possible. The whole big Internet is not only around us every day, it is around us every second now.

Wikipedia has already become a big knowledge source for students to grab academic information quickly. The contribution to many other wiki systems also encourages people to keep writing and sharing the knowledge. The writing and reading process is quite similar to the demand and supply relation. But now the trend seems to make everyone act both as demand and supply in the learning process.

It is about one month to 2010 now. Mobile learning and eBook are two of the focus in education. Some teachers is already asking students to write down their learning process and thoughts using blog and submit back as a homework. Some students will go out for a field trip and share their findings between students who may be discovering different things in the park.

With the latest technology of the paper-like eBook and augmented reality, several new methodology of learning may be able to applied and make the learning better.

May be in the future we will be reading an e-book on the train and at the same time reading the comments on the paragraphs in the margin area and discussing the book content with others.

May be years later when students go to a field trip, they have a thin eBook with them and was asking to take photos of different plant. Then the eBook will list all useful information of that kind of plant, just like you are collecting it as specimen.

The mobile technology is becoming more mature and I think there will be a lot of mobile learning or situated learning solutions come out in the next years.

Now I planned to post a blog weekly and the post topic will stick on my personal thoughts on how to get my life more productive and meaningful. On the other words, I am going to express what I’m thinking and may be years later I can revise my growth through here.

It shows several creative blogs that jump out the style boundary of normal blog. Each post from those blogs present an unique style as if you were reading a high quality magazine online.

After the inspiration from these creative blogs, I decided to do an experiment on this personal blog and see if I can make it becomes a blogazine style blog. I am going to change the styles a lot these days so some styles may become wired before it looks good. I will also try to re-style my old posts later when I get time.

If you want to know more about the blogazine style, read the great post from Smashing Magazine.

As a web designer, I read through different design blogs, such as Tuts+, Web Designer Wall, Smashing Magazine every day to get updated news on what others are doing in the world. These blogs often provide high quality design resources, tutorials and freebies.

It is a little bit time consuming for bookmarking different high quality blog posts everyday. And a bigger issue is that my bookmark list has grown into a big list. Too big for me to find my bookmarks with specific topic. For example, I bookmark collections of inspiring designs, great tutorials, freelance tips and articles related to efficiency. Sometimes when I want to reference a tutorial, say photoshop tutorial, it is hard for me to have a quick way to get all the photoshop tutorials bookmarks in a visual way. All I can get is a list of text titles. I want a tool that I can have all related bookmark visually appear in front of me when I click ‘photoshop’ or ‘inspiring’ tag.

I am going to make a web tool to manage all my collections in a better way. This tool will keep updating everyday and I will put new fresh great blog posts into this coming tool, a web design resources archives.