A little flash and some action too

Wow, it has been quite some time since I've been on here. It's not even that I haven't been in front of a computer lately, because I'm pretty sure I've spent every waking hour of the past two weeks in front of a computer. It's just that I've had hours upon hours of school work to complete and haven't had a chance to post anything. There hasn't been much interesting going on either... though over the past few weeks I have come up with a few things that I'll get to over the next couple of days.

The first thing is about that computer ethics class I posted about before. The class is no longer about ethics though. It's now about usability. But, it's still pretty interesting, and I guess fairly important since it's pretty pointless to design a program that isn't usable by its targeted users. Anyway, I had to design a program to test the usability of an aspect of a chronological forum. I decided to test the task of posting a thread. Therefore, my design is basically just a mock-up of what it could be like to go through the process of determining a date to post to, and then clicking post. It really doesn't actually do anything. It was quite fun to make though since it was pretty much the first time I've ever used Flash... particularly Actionscript. It turned out to be pretty neat to use too. I still suck at it, but after a few web tutorials I was able to put something together. Check out what I managed to do here if you want. It's really not much, and is very pointless, but it's not bad for a first go at it. Oh, and I do realize that every month has 31 days, but it was a pain in the ass to change it and I was tired. There's also no back button, which is annoying, but I couldn't get it to work properly, so I left it out. When I have some free time, I'm definitely going to have another try at making something cool.