theDeSilva.com

It’s been awhile

Andrew de Silva — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:33:14 +0000

Wow , I just realized how long since I’ve actually written a post here. I’ve been extremely busy with work lately and I have not got a chance to update with my blog. I’ve been working with more .NET stuff than ever at work and also attended a Flash ActionScript 3 class.

ActionScript 3 is a powerful, object-oriented programming language that signifies an important step in the evolution of the capabilities of the Flash Player runtime. ActionScript 3 is a complete re-write of ActionScript 2.ActionScript is executed by the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) built into the Flash Player.

Hopefully I’ll find some time to work on some update on my own site. It’s been a little challenging to work on updates on my own site while working on my regular job and maintaining my other websites.

Oh and embedded on this post you will find the Asteroid Game that was part of my Flash Action Script class objective. Asteroids is a video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Asteroids uses vector graphics and a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both screen axes. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers’ counter-fire.

Control the spaceship using your arrow keys , fire with shift button and warp using the spacebar. I couldn’t help it but to make a little change to the game by adding forcefield. Ctrl key to turn on force field and caps key to turn it off. If you want to restart the game , you will have to refresh the page. I know it’s LAME but I can’t be coding more into this Asteroid game when I have ton of work to finish up now. Maybe by the end of the week, I’ll put in some effort to make it ‘nicer’.

Long weekend

Andrew de Silva — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:33:25 +0000

Its looks like I’m going to be working some extra hours this week. There’s a whole bunch of updating that I would have to carry out on websites that I maintain and designed . Good thing there isn’t work that I’ll have to deal with on the weekend other than my own projects.

Here’s to a fun weekend. If I find sometime I should sit down and finish working on my newest look on the site. I’ve to admit I’ve been pushing this back a couple of times this month.

New Products Added to Store

Andrew de Silva — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:49:15 +0000

I’ve to admit, I’ve been really lazy lately and haven’t really been updating my store as much as I wanted to. Work has been much more busier lately and I haven’t had much time to spend on working on my own website. I’ve just divided my store into product categories for better search. Check out my dvd and book section . I’ve added more textbooks and dvd such as The Shield Season One Dvd.

Store Added

Andrew de Silva — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:44:54 +0000

I’ve decided to add a store to my webpage to start selling some of the stuff that I own. Check out my new store by clicking the store icon above or click here . I’ll mostly be selling some of my old textbook and stuff that I’m no longer using. So think of it as more of a used store.

New Look

Andrew de Silva — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:24:24 +0000

So I’ve finally decided that it’s time for me to really sit down and work on my own site for a change. I’m currently upgrading most of thedesilva.com layout and hopefully will be done at some point next week.

Transfer Successful

Andrew de Silva — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:38:54 +0000

It looks like I finally decided to dedicate my time to the site transfer and everything was successful. I was rather impress that it took half the effort and time to transfer a domain name and also web hosting account. Now if I would only get my lazy bottom to start checking on the broken links that I have on the website then it would be even better….

Yet Another Update

Andrew de Silva — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:59:44 +0000

I’m in the processing of finalizing some changes on the website and preparing for a domain hosting transfer pretty soon, as I’ve decided to completely abandon my currently hosting company as the getting slower in responding to support question. I will most probably ending up hosting with this company that I’ve used for many of the other website. Good bye IIS , Hellooooo APACHE….

If you haven’t realize yet , my current hosting plan has uses a Window Environment aka IIS and they have a pretty cool hack to run Apache on the side for me to host my other php and JSP stuff. I think I’m ready to abandon asp.net for time being as I mostly coded stuff on php nowadays.

Blog Added

Andrew de Silva — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:49:02 +0000

So I finally decided to cave in and install a blog here. It’s probably easier with all web updates this way rather than editing my html files all the time which is more pron to error. Added a new photo gallery and everything is running much more smoother than it use to be.

Site Uplift

Andrew de Silva — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:14:07 +0000

Site has been updated and given a new facelift. I finally managed to find some time to work on the site. I’ve just finished another ecommerce website, Express Medical Onlie. Check out both of the ecommerce websites that I’ve worked on at my portfolio page.