I sort of want to start a technical-blog of the type that I frequently find when I Google some stuff about some problem I'm trying to solve while developing some thing.

I've thought of several good reasons to do this, which I imagined I might enumerate in the blog itself but I'm sort of in a rush right now.

I think this is going to wind up in my Livejournal since I don't use it for anything else anymore. I think there's like two friends of mine left there and they're kind of technical anyway.

The problem I'm dealing with right now is wanting to quickly assign arbitrary properties to symbols (MovieClips) in Flash (CS4). I'm amazed there doesn't seem to be an elegant way to do this. Or there is and I haven't found it. As in I have a whole flock of symbols that are controlled by the same class, but each have a few variables that are different that the class wants to use. The solutions I can see are 1) developing Components, which seems pretty heavy-weight for all I need to do. 2) encoding variables in the instance names, which just seems awful. and 3), which is what I'm doing for now, was to write a php script to auto-generate classes based on entries in a database. This is a little less awful but I can't believe it's the best solution.

There's really as I implied a good long list of why I think keeping a technical blog is a keen idea. Near the top of the list are things that work for me even if nobody ever reads any of it. My brother told me about the Mnemosyne Project a few days ago, ( Read more )