About Ayan
Ayan Ray is a creative technologist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in creating applications for Flash, PHP, Android, iPhone, and HTML5/CSS. He holds an undergraduate degree from Carleton University in Information Technology with distinction and numerous awards. This blog is all about his observations in technology, entrepreneurship, and his daily life. In his free time, he enjoys reading, staying fit by swimming, playing soccer and volleyball, and spending time with his friends and family.
One application of David Allen’s Getting Things Done principles is the personal wiki (google Monkey GTD). Although the book is on my reading list and I have yet to touch it, there’s no reason to start ‘working on it’ early, … Continue reading →
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Posted in General
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Tagged Productivity
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I’m not sure if this is a standard tool, but I created it for myself to start seeing where my time was going and thought it could be valuable to others. Your personal time is valuable. And like anything valuable, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Productivity
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As my first self-service application, the Subservient Video AS3 application allows users to build a fun, creative, and interesting interface for their website guests. This application is an upgrade to the popular AS2 subservient chicken open source application I released … Continue reading →
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Posted in Flash
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Tagged Flash, Self-Service
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They are a dime a dozen – a framework for Flash/Flex and AS3. It’s really quite simple making your own framework. You come up with what you want to accomplish and you develop general classes to accomplish that. It is … Continue reading →
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Recently, I noticed something funny in a code base that I view seldomly. I was scrimmaging through the code of a maintained code base and noticed something sour – duplicated code. Duplicated code is not bad, when it is in … Continue reading →
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As promised, I’ve updated the AssetLoader and pulled it into the 21st century. It is a lot more… flex-ible if you get what I mean (of course you do). Anyways, as a reminder, you can sync up with the following … Continue reading →
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Posted in Flash
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Tagged AssetLoader, Flash
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As promised, I am going to fix up AssetLoader so it delivers all that it originally promised. As I have been using flex lately, I realize that the AssetLoader class is more valuable than I originally intended. Flex itself has … Continue reading →
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Posted in Flash
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Tagged AssetLoader, Flash
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I have almost finished configuring my blog to my liking and let me tell you that I am really liking it. It is honestly such an easy process to get up and writing that you need to know next to … Continue reading →
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Hello everyone! As you might be able to tell, I have a new blog. I have finally resorted going back to WordPress. Around 2 years ago, I transfered from a WordPress blog to a CakePHP blog; deciding in favour of … Continue reading →
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This past semester (yes school is back), I had a chance to play around with Adobe AIR for my Human Computer Interaction term project. For the term project, I wanted to create a 3D Music Player, that allows you to … Continue reading →
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