Dear Diary,
After this week I would have completed a month at SilverstreamTV. New exciting projects are coming a foot and Pre-development and exploration is the key.
Almost at the point of completing the upload system for Flashpoint2, a few niks here and there have been causing issues mainly due to the way i coded the system. Last two issues i had left to fix were the saving of an "id" number for the event the video was being uploaded for, the form kept returning a value of "0", after looking through my code it was a simple miss reference on my part calling an element that didnt exist, but unline flash php doesnt seem to give back "null object references" which would have saved me a lot of hassle. Will be the first place i look next time.
My second issue is the image/video flash uploader interacting with php. The uploader was set up to send the filename with full extension to php, I modified the php to section off and check the extension and send the files to seperate folders depending on type. The issue i have been having has been with the overwrite function which does not send the extension so the video is saved straight into the image folder, should be a quick fix though i will have another look into it today.
Now for the exciting developments, I have been asked to explore the world of Unity3D a 3D gaming engine built with the capability to export to multiple platforms from Wii to pc and now even to iPhone.
Unity3D can be coded using Javascript, C# or Boo(Python-inspired syntax) since i have some base knowledge of Javascript thats the route i plan on going.
For ease of use Unity3D is brilliant, there are so many facilities available online for learning how to use it. Unity itself has free tutorials and files for your learning purposes and getting started is quick and easy. Also a very good thing about Unity is the fact that for the base package it is free and you get a 30-day pro trial when you download, so there is no excuse.
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