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So it turns out that Knowtes was not even judged in the Adobe AIR Developer Derby. Apparently in all my heads down coding of the application itself, I left my signup page a little confusing. The judge (yes, singluar - only one visit to my signup page was unaccounted for during the judging period) did not realize they needed to fill out the CAPTCHA on the page in order to have an invitation sent.

In their defense, my code mistakenly showed a message indicating that the invitation was sent on one part of the page while another part said that they needed to fill out the CAPTCHA. It’s kind of tough to swallow that kind of mistake after so much work, especially when it had nothing to do with the application itself.

Still, the competition did motivate me to get quite a lot done on the program, and now it’s time to try and do something with it. To that end, I’ll be trying to get it showcased on Adobe’s website and a few other places. We’ll see what happens.

And yes, I still plan on blogging some of the code I did for the site… just have to find the time.

Shaun

Whew!

So my real job turned out to be a lot less work than programming on Knowtes for the Derby. I need to work on my self-motivation (less would be better I think).

In any case, the bug-ridden AIR version of Knowtes is off, and I can only hope that there are too many features in there for the judges to get too in-depth and find all of the errors

I waited pretty much until the last second to submit it, just in case Adobe had some automated process to download your AIR file as soon as you sent in your submission, though it appears they did not. Now it’s time to sit around and wait for the judges to start doing their thing.

Well, not exactly just sit around. I’ve got plenty of projects to be working on and I’d like to start blogging about different parts of the AIR development experience as well as code I used. So to that end, here’s a list of things I might blog about:

• The Knowtes GradientSelector control
• The BitmapFade effect (gets around non-embedded font issues and is faster than typical fade)
• Secure login via HTML
• Kuler integration
• Tile-able, center-able, stretch-able, zoom-able background image

Just post a comment and let me know what you’d like to hear about and I’ll make a blog post about it.

Till then,
~Shaun (more…)