My Thoughts and Impressions on My Internship

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.

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.

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.