I'm now six weeks into my internship and I've got to say, I love it. It's pretty much what I expected. Maybe even better than I expected. It's very laid back there and casual and everyone is really friendly. And it's because of this that I'm motivated to work. To show them what I can do and to better the and my own abilities.
They've seen that I know what I'm doing and can learn pretty fast so they've given me more responsibility than I think they thought they were going to this early on. And I like it. The projects I'm given have gotten increasingly more challenging and interesting. The next thing I think I'll be working on is a special page for the Apple iPhone. That will be really interesting. I can't wait.
I've already been told that after the 11 months that they will definitely hire me on if HR deems that there's a position available and it's likely that there will be. And I'm really hoping they will since I love it.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
FLV Player Finished & Games
I finally finished the Flash Video Player earlier this week. It can be customized to do pretty much anything we need it to do on any page. It'll probably mostly be used as a controlless player that plays a looping playlist. But it can do anything, including autoplay, looping, have controls--inner and outer--, display an image, link to other urls, full volume controls, scrub bar, and every image of the controls and background is able to have a custom image pulled in specified via the SWFObject in the HTML code.
This weekend I'm working on an analysis of several gaming vendors that AS is looking for to provide a multiplayer back and front end to their existing and future games. I'm seeing which companies are qualified and which aren't. In addition, I'm reviewing the presentation that will be provided to those companies and supplying a list of pros and cons of each feature of the multiplayer idea.
This weekend I'm working on an analysis of several gaming vendors that AS is looking for to provide a multiplayer back and front end to their existing and future games. I'm seeing which companies are qualified and which aren't. In addition, I'm reviewing the presentation that will be provided to those companies and supplying a list of pros and cons of each feature of the multiplayer idea.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
FLV Player
Currently, I am hard at work on a fully customizable (through swfObject in the html) FLV player that I'm making in Flash. I was given the task last Thursday and already I've done probably 80% of the work.
I've made all of the manual controls for it (play, pause, scrubber bar, volume) as well as most of the graphical elements for it (control area, time displays, video area and bgs) and now I'm working on the more complicated functions like getting it to read an xml playlist, loop through and have each flv be a clickable link to a certain place.
This has been a very fun and informative task for me as it's the first time I've played around with Flash videos. This is also the first time I've gotten to use AS3 and I'm loving it. It's so much more logical and precise than AS2. I expect to be fully done by the end of the week.
I've made all of the manual controls for it (play, pause, scrubber bar, volume) as well as most of the graphical elements for it (control area, time displays, video area and bgs) and now I'm working on the more complicated functions like getting it to read an xml playlist, loop through and have each flv be a clickable link to a certain place.
This has been a very fun and informative task for me as it's the first time I've played around with Flash videos. This is also the first time I've gotten to use AS3 and I'm loving it. It's so much more logical and precise than AS2. I expect to be fully done by the end of the week.
Friday, July 27, 2007
New Downloads Page
The latter half of this week was mainly spent working on the new Downloads page and the VMA. For the Downloads page, I was focused on checking through all of the files that should be up and making sure they were all working and linked correctly. I had to rename every single file to match the script that pulled them from the .json file and then push them all to staging and then live. The Downloads page should be launching on Monday. When it does, it will be at LINK.
For the VMA this week, I got a jump on it early so we could make sure all of the videos were in there and correct for the push to live on Friday without incident or delay. So far we are on track and as of 12:00 PM all but one thing is in order.
Currently, I'm waiting on my next assignment which should come very soon.
For the VMA this week, I got a jump on it early so we could make sure all of the videos were in there and correct for the push to live on Friday without incident or delay. So far we are on track and as of 12:00 PM all but one thing is in order.
Currently, I'm waiting on my next assignment which should come very soon.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Error Page
At the start of my third week (July 23rd) I was given another project to work on. It was updating the site's Error page to the new design that they wanted. I was given the images for it and was told to update it based on the new layout for the pages.
I started by copying over the navigation, ad, and legal links that are standard on all the pages and updating the css for the right colors that match the background they gave me. I then added the div tags for the main error image content. This job was relatively simple and only took a couple hours on the 23rd and about an hour today (the 24th).
I delivered the finished page today and it has to go through the approval process and will be uploading asap. I'll post the link when it's ready.
I started by copying over the navigation, ad, and legal links that are standard on all the pages and updating the css for the right colors that match the background they gave me. I then added the div tags for the main error image content. This job was relatively simple and only took a couple hours on the 23rd and about an hour today (the 24th).
I delivered the finished page today and it has to go through the approval process and will be uploading asap. I'll post the link when it's ready.
The First Two Weeks
This first post will catalogue the first two weeks of my internship here at Adultswim.com
I started on July 9th with my new hire orientation. It lasted only half of the day and they pretty much let us dive right in after that. At the orientation they went over all of the company policies, the benefits, the security, the company structure, and an overview of companies computer systems. Everything except the benefits discussion was very brief and they let the employees figure most out on their own.
After the orientation, I was picked up by my supervisor, Win Gowland, and brought to the Williams Street building where I will be working. It's across the street from Turner's main Techwood campus in a relatively small 2 story building. Williams Street houses all of Adult Swim's areas including the On Air and Website departments.
The Web team here consists of 15 people. Those 15 are broken up into 3 developers (including me), 5 writers/producers, 3 designers, 2 editors, and 2 managers. I am sharing an office with another intern in the T3 program who works with the On Air side of AS.
My first week here was spent getting used to the various servers, pages, and programs that the .com team uses. Most of that week was spent in what is called the VMA. It is a web app that controls the database of movie files featured constantly at LINK. My job is to, every week, go in and change out all the episodes being played in the video section of the site. A new spreadsheet comes in every Tuesday or Wednesday and I find the ratings and descriptions of each new episode and then go in the VMA and switch out the old episodes with the new ones. After I'm done, we leave it to be published to live on Fridays.
During the first week I was setback a little by my computer. It is old machine with little memory and space left on it. It wasn't re-imaged until the next week, so any small thing I did on it took a long time.
At the beginning of the second week, I was given my own first project. I was to create a professionally styled Myspace page for Williams Street. I was given the design of the page in the form of a PSD. It required a lot of research and testing since I was completely overhauling Myspace's layout and design. There is no official documentation for it so I was left to search the Internet for blogs and random posts that everyday users had written about Myspace. After I figured out the layout and naming conventions for all the elements on the default page, I set out creating the .css file that would control everything. It took me around 2 full days (over a span of 5) to get the page working like I wanted it to. (During the week I was given various minor projects like updating the VMA, migrating files for the new downloads page--LINK--, and updating other small sections of the site.) The test page that I have set up is at LINK. It is now in the approval and content writing stages by other members of the team and I'm waiting to fully deploy it.
That ended my first two weeks at AS.com. I thoroughly enjoying it and can't wait to work on more projects.
I started on July 9th with my new hire orientation. It lasted only half of the day and they pretty much let us dive right in after that. At the orientation they went over all of the company policies, the benefits, the security, the company structure, and an overview of companies computer systems. Everything except the benefits discussion was very brief and they let the employees figure most out on their own.
After the orientation, I was picked up by my supervisor, Win Gowland, and brought to the Williams Street building where I will be working. It's across the street from Turner's main Techwood campus in a relatively small 2 story building. Williams Street houses all of Adult Swim's areas including the On Air and Website departments.
The Web team here consists of 15 people. Those 15 are broken up into 3 developers (including me), 5 writers/producers, 3 designers, 2 editors, and 2 managers. I am sharing an office with another intern in the T3 program who works with the On Air side of AS.
My first week here was spent getting used to the various servers, pages, and programs that the .com team uses. Most of that week was spent in what is called the VMA. It is a web app that controls the database of movie files featured constantly at LINK. My job is to, every week, go in and change out all the episodes being played in the video section of the site. A new spreadsheet comes in every Tuesday or Wednesday and I find the ratings and descriptions of each new episode and then go in the VMA and switch out the old episodes with the new ones. After I'm done, we leave it to be published to live on Fridays.
During the first week I was setback a little by my computer. It is old machine with little memory and space left on it. It wasn't re-imaged until the next week, so any small thing I did on it took a long time.
At the beginning of the second week, I was given my own first project. I was to create a professionally styled Myspace page for Williams Street. I was given the design of the page in the form of a PSD. It required a lot of research and testing since I was completely overhauling Myspace's layout and design. There is no official documentation for it so I was left to search the Internet for blogs and random posts that everyday users had written about Myspace. After I figured out the layout and naming conventions for all the elements on the default page, I set out creating the .css file that would control everything. It took me around 2 full days (over a span of 5) to get the page working like I wanted it to. (During the week I was given various minor projects like updating the VMA, migrating files for the new downloads page--LINK--, and updating other small sections of the site.) The test page that I have set up is at LINK. It is now in the approval and content writing stages by other members of the team and I'm waiting to fully deploy it.
That ended my first two weeks at AS.com. I thoroughly enjoying it and can't wait to work on more projects.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Introduction
This is the blog of Justin Gardner for his internship in the Adult Swim T3 program. It is for fulfilling the requirement of SCAD's internship credits. SuAnne Fu is the supervising teacher. More to come next post.
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