New Job
So yesterday I was officially hired at Forthgear in Kaysville. So starting next Monday I will be working as an entry level Interactive Designer in a professional design firm. The pay is REALLY low compared to what others are making, but the guy there said that because they were in Davis county they paid a lot less than Salt Lake or Ogden. I figure that it is a job (and I really need a job) where I can grow my skills and gain some experience. And in the future I can move up there, or find a better opportunity somewhere else. Plus it is the first Interactive Design job that I have interviewed for and I like that side of design a lot better than print media. They do offer really good benefits as well so that is a good bonus and the people there seem very laid back and cool.
I guess all that I can really say is I am insanely happy to have found a Design job, even if it isn't exactly what I want.
v.2 Almost 100%
So I finally got the sound issues figured out for my MP3 Player. It will now auto-play when you select a song and it will continue to the next song when a song finishes. The song order is also changeable by dragging the songs up or down the list. Now all I have to get figured out is the scrollable song list.
MP3 v.2
So I got the bugs in playing figured out at home last night. But now that I have loaded it up online it isn't working right anymore. Now it won't load the songs in right so I'm not sure what is going on. It also takesforever to load now which I can't figure out either. I'll have to keep working at it and see if I can figure it out. I still haven't figured out the scrolling song list yet though. So I put the new skin with the old ActionScript so that it would work until I get the other stuff figured out.
I did get my new skin figured out though. I'm not sure how well it is working, but I like it for now.
MP3 Player
I recently found a Flash Tutorial for a MP3 Player. So I took the .fla file that came along with the tutorial and started messing around with it to see if I could figure out how it worked without the help of the tutorial. For the looks I just changed the colors around from the original one. I will eventually make my own skin for the player that I have customized to look the way that I want it to, but for now I wanted to get all of the ActionScript figured out and working the way that I want it to. The player is now loaded on the right side of my blog underneath all of the links so if you are reading this then you should scroll down and check it out. All of the music is stuff that I put together so if you want to comment on it feel free to.
Most of the ActionScript that was used in the original player is still there, but I've modify it so that it ran a little better. There are still a lot of bugs that I need to work out though. One is the number of songs that I can display. The song list and MP3s are loaded in using XML. This is all pretty easy. My problem is that I can't figure out how to have the song list load into a scrolling box so that I can have a long list without having the list take up a lot of space. The other major problem that I am having is that the counter and progress bar won't fully reset when a new song is loaded. I changed the original ActionScript so that the song would play automatically when it is selected. For some reason this caused the counters to reset when the new song loaded, but then the counter and progress bar imediately go back to where they were set on the previous song. I can't figure out why it's doing this because if it's set-up to not auto-play then it doesn't have this problem. The only other problem that I am having right now is that when one song ends it won't automatically load in the next song on the list. I haven't tried to fix this one yet because I thought that the other two were more important, but I plan on getting it fixed as soon as I can.
If anyone reads this and thinks that they might have a solution to the problem I would appreciate any help that could be offered. Or any comments at all would be welcome.
The Job Hunt Continues
So I am getting really frustrated with employers and I need to have a little rant.
I have made it down to the final two candidates for a couple of jobs recently. But after the last interview I never hear back from them. And when I contact them they tell me that they are "still deciding". Which I think is code for "we offered the job to the other person and we're waiting to see if they accept it, but if they don't then we are planning on offering it to you, so we don't want to tell you that you didn't get the job." I keep applying every time that I hear about another design job opening up. I guess I just don't have enough good Kharma built up right now. Hopefully things turn better soon or I might go insane.
