The Past Five Years

I'm not sure if you've noticed but there's a gap of five years between my recent post and the post before it. The only excuse I could give for this gap is: life happened.

I won't go into details what exactly happened. I'm simply thankful that I can blog again.

There are some changes though. I won't be giving ActionScript and Flash tutorials anymore. I know. I know. You might be saying to yourself: "But you never gave any tutorials of sort." Well.. Now I definitely won't :P I loved programming with AS3 and Flash but since most browsers have dropped support for it, there's no point learning it from here on forth. (I might still make games with it though.)

What are the other changes?

I have recently enrolled for postgraduate diploma in Information Technology. I am now currently learning new technologies that I would love to share in this blog:

• ASP.NET
• C#
• Node.js
• PHP
• MySQL
• Continuous Integration/Deployment

and more! I will still continue giving guides for the Project Euler puzzles. I will still share mathematical and computer science concepts. And I will still rant about my programming life.

I hope you will continue to learn with me in this journey!

Poroporoaki! (Oh. Did I mention that I have recently moved to New Zealand? Yes. I'm studying in NZ now.)

A Dilemma of a Programming Student: Midterms Week part 1

Choosing a programming course because you like programming doesn't always mean fun.. Because most of the subjects you'll encounter will not even involve programming..

And so here I am, facing my PC trying to understand stuff that doesn't interest me..

But I guess they'll come handy sometime.. I mean.. I'm sure by solving the series of unfortunate events of my life using Taylor's series, I can be enlightened and be able to appreciate life..

I'm not kidding.. Life, like numbers and other mathematical entities, has a pattern :P

Well, I guess that's it for today. I have to go and become a nerd who studies math stuff D:

P.S.
I'm gonna fail.. I think D:

Why, I Love My Work Even More

Okay. First I must warn you. This a post not related to any programming facts or help. I'm simply sharing my experiences here. So if you don't wanna waste your time stalking my life, it's okay :3 You can go read the important stuff in this blog. Just browse for some tutorials.

So, where was I? Oh, right! Work!

This week has been the busiest yet the most exciting one for this year. To be honest, I'm quite pleased when my boss told me to create Flash games for their site. I'm working for them for a month already and honestly, I love my work.

However, my previous tasks don't involve programming at all. It's fine since my work is something I always do: casual gaming, plus writing and checking grammars. It's fun yet very stressful since I have to play at least 60 games per week.

The other task helped widen my web developing knowledge though. When I was searching for jobs back then, a lot of company were looking for people who know WordPress. I was thinking it would involve a lot of blogging and writing. I mean, that was how I saw WordPress before. A blogging site.

But then I was completely wrong. My boss told me to create a blog specifically for puzzle games. The site is hosted under WordPress. I've used WordPress before but I like Blogger more. So when I started tinkering my site, I was completely overwhelmed with codes and plug-ins. I thought I'd only do drag and drop in making my website. I was oh so wrong.

I had to set-up my site for a week! But it was not a wasted week. I've learned about WordPress and how you edit your own site. My PHP class didn't fail me. I've asked help from my friend, accidentallyc. You see, I like surfing but I don't like creating sites people would like to surf for. I'm into games and database analysis.

So what happened was, I've asked my friend to design my website with stuff and add creative stuff while I tinker the PHP stuff. Fortunately, when this friend of mine started his On-the-Job-training, his involvement with my WordPress adventure helped him. It's a win-win!



So I guess I've finally bore you with the past. Let's discuss the present events now!

I've been casual gaming and commenting games for a month when suddenly a door opened for me. The door to finally use my Flash and ActionScript knowledge. Well, I'm still a noob in ActionScript.

So this door opened when my boss said we need to create games we can distribute. These games will link to our site since the AI in Google can search through Flash already. This would help them rank in the search engine and I don't know why I'm ranting about this. Just know that I'm developing games to help the site gain popularity. I'll leave out the how-does-it-work for later.

Anyway, this made everything better for me. Why? Three reasons:

• My On-the-Job training is finally related to my course.
• I get to improve my game developing knowledge.
• Making games is my ambition so technically, I'm halfway in achieving my dreams. *angel singing*

And that's why I love my work even better!

*deep breathe*

Well, this is a pretty long post.

I'm surprised you read through all that boring stuff. I assume you are simply bored right now.