On Friday I wrote and passed [86%] the Adobe Flash 8 Certified Professional exam. This exam contains questions relating to both Designer and Developers with majority [+/- 75/25] seeming to be Developer related. Saying so, the first 5 or 6 questions where all Design based [Questions like what import settings to use with FreeHand/Illustrator files with gradients] and had me nervous.

The types of questions asked were about Audio/Video import types, LoadVars, fonts, OOP, cacheAsBitmap…. I reckon if you have the pleasure of working with Flash everyday you should do fine, but if like me you feel the need to do some studying then look at the exam prep guide for the exam at the Adobe site, as well as the guide for the MX 2004 Designer/Developer. Also search out the Flash Coders forum and lastly Google the exam to see what the others have studied, unfortunately there isn’t a lot of information from Adobe about the exam.

Interestingly there was a question about how to create a MovieClip with an ‘instance name’ of ‘myMC’, these were the options:

myMC = new MovieClip(‘myMC’,100);
myMC.duplicateMovieClip(‘my_mc’,100);
myMC.attachMovie(‘myMC’,’my_mc’,100);
myMC.createEmptyMovieClip(‘my_mc’,100);

Is it just me or am I missing something?

Brought a book called UML DeMYSTiFied [ISBN 0-07-226182-x] which i’m hoping will formalize the way i plan an application. Its says: ‘…show you how to visually plan, develop, and analyze software projects’.

In the past i would simply put ideas [brainstorm] on to paper, put a structure of the classes together with Visio and there it is. Not to bad i reckon, but i think getting in depth with use cases, activity diagrams, interaction diagrams and many other will take my coding to the next level, which is nice.

Im still using Visio for planning, but at least i know what im saying now. I am looking for another option as some of these editors pump out AS files from your planning, including your method,comments etc.

My time at Ogilvy Interactive has come to an end after just under two years.

Im pretty happy to be moving on and i’m thankful for all Ogilvy has learned me! I came to OI wanting to be part of a team [design/develop/...] and be involved with the process [client>suit>traffic>design && develop]. I got what i wanted and im better for it.

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