Radley Marx

Muggle Free

It won’t be obvious here on my personal blog, but I’ve been somewhat slacking in cyberspace. I’ve only posted a few entries on vj.tv in the last couple of months, I barely twitted, and this personal blog has been little more than a rant board.

I was a muggle for the last 2 months – I worked from 9:30am to 6:30pm weekdays. My commute was short, but it still involved a complex on-off-on freeway drive (to avoid the Maze) along with the blahs of “commuter traffic.”

This period was partly about making up for lost personal time along with managing transaction from start-up #1 to start-up #2. Mixwit took up most of my time and resources this year, leaving me in an uncomfortable position by the end of summer. By the end of the year, it was clear that we had to shut down the project if we were to ever get to phase 2.

From October to last week, I worked full time as a consultant for a well known music start-up. The pay way very good and a took advantage of the new income to make significant personal upgrades which I will talk about more over the next few weeks.

But anyways, I’m back. Muggle free. I’m my own self again!

Migration…

I’ve completed the majority of the migration from Wordpress.com to my own server and domain. I’ve spent the last four months managing vj.tv on my own server and feel confident that I can manage my own personal blog as well.

I feel like I’ve been holding my breath for the past few months, partly because of the restrictions of a hosted service, but also due to the possible pitfalls and conflicts of running a project like Mixwit. I’ll explain more shortly, but I have a few more tasks to finish with this migration…

More Preface

Last fall I Started working on my first blog with the determination to help Flash designers overcome the banality of programming and learn to understand and embrace OOP AS2 (Actionscript 2) programming. Without going too far into detail, many things changed that caused me to re-evaluate that plan.

I’ve been working like mad in AS3 and Flex and expect to tap into AIR very soon as well. There’s a part of me that wants to also talk about mid-to-high level tricks and solutions, which doesn’t go along with the previous focus. Finally, since my previous blog, I co-founded Mixwit – an online social media platform that has raised many eyebrows.

So if you ever wonder why my posts seem completely random, it’s because I’m trying to fill in holes in many different places and trying to relate my experience of designer/developer/media-professional…

Tags: Flash

I want.

My Blog v3

Hi All,

This is my third attempt at writing a blog to share useful ideas and tools with the Flash community.

The first two attempts went very well but were obliterated due to my lack of understanding (and patience) for hosting, maintaining, and updating my own Wordpress blog. Between Aug ‘07 and now were five software updates to Wordpress and I quickly lost control of my files.

After the simplicity of hosting the Mixwit Blog on wordpress.com, I’ve learned that stability is far more impressive that cool third-party features. I’ve always hosted my own sites and email, so this is a really big concession to turn it over to wordpress.com.

I’ve also been really busy with Mixwit and made a point of not working on any other projects during my Y-Combinator incubation period. VJTV (vj.tv) will also be re-emerging and public this week.

Tags: Mixwit, VJTV, Y Combinator