Icon design

Have a look at the icon I made earlier for my IOS application. While it may not look exactly like him. This is Frank McCourt with a feint image of the museum in the background.

Ok I agree it's a tiny image but it is the correct resolution for the device I am using.

IT WORKS!!!!! :-)

Ok not the most professional title for a post but I'm delighted to say that my iPad application works. It's so good to see some hard work paying off. Thank God for Adobes free 30 day trial. What I've seen in Adobe Creative Cloud looks fantastic and would be a fine investment for any designer or developer. Staying on track, here is a screenshot of my finished product.

Now to finish off the documentation for the project. I remember doing a research final year project for my undergraduate degree. I must say it is much easier to write about work that you have done yourself so this should be a piece of cake.

Audio recording

While the deadline for this project quickly approaches I feel that I need to enhance my project with some audio. Unfortunately the driver for my soundcard is not available for IOS Mavericks so I recorded with a dictaphone instead. Here is what I am working on in Logic Express. I have recorded some basic acoustic tracks as backing tracks for the 'Then and Now' section and the 'Follow Frank' section. I enhanced these audio tracks with some effects in Logic.

FileZilla to iPage

I haven't used ftp in a while but it does come in quite handy. It saves a lot of time that could be spent creating directories. I was lucky to find FileZilla, it helped me upload my php files to iPage very quickly.

Apple Developer program

Apple make devices that are easy to use but they don't make devices that are easy to develop for. I have recently been added to the University Apple Developers Program. Here I must acknowledge the very quick work pace from the L.I.T. administration who were very helpful in helping me to receive all of the files I needed to deploy my application.

Quick post on play and pause button functionality in Flash

At the moment I'm following this tutorial about creating play / pause functionality for my today's news section. It's time to get stuff rolling with this project. I can't afford to waste any more days watching videos on things that can't be implemented.

Flash Databas problems

My flash project needed more programming in it. I was advised that I should try and create a database and functionality that allows the user to upload an image, save it to database and display on the timeline. After spending three full days of researching different methods of how to do this. I have taken on board the fact that I now have serious time restrictions and that in the space of time that I have left it is not plausible to learn how to do this. As well as the face that every resource that I have found on the matter is writing the code in ActionScript 2, while the code is mine is all ActionScript 3. This would mean that I would have to revise my entire project to suit this one function.
After going through one tutorial in particular on YouTube, and trying to implement the code into my project, it did not work. The disappointing part of all of this is that the research that I had done is not worth anything, as I had to delete the code that I had in order for the other aspects of my project to work. All I can do is mention what I have found from YouTube, Stack Overflow and a few more sites around the net, which is

Often images are uploaded using binary arrays.
When uploading an image the name of that file will be shown in a dynamic text field
AJAX came up in a post I read about the matter recently, I did not read into the functionality behind it.
All other information I have at this time is masked by utter confusion with regards to the matter.

I have decided to give up the whole database idea as it is wasting time and as you can probably tell by the tone of this post, it has annoyed me beyond belief.
It's time to think of more programming opportunities that can be taken. Although I'm a bit lost with it all. PHP, the server side language is out as I just stated, JavaScript functionality can be implemented with ActionSctipt and ActionScript will not suffice for the programming work. The question is what can be done. I can see myself going in on Monday with relatively no work to show for my time wasted on database research. While this post is more of a rant, it has stated what I needed to say.