I'm sure that most of you could care less about this, but I finally got Ming 0.3 to compile on my LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) server. You can't see me at this moment, but I'm doing a little happy dance right now.

Ming is what I use to make Flash apps such as my webcam viewer ---->
Plus I just made this little flowery woot thingy here, woot woot. =)

I love Ming because I often hate Flash. See, I like some of the things that Flash can do as a nice media compliment to websites, but I hate that whole design-trendiness and the obfuscuated unintuitive interface of Macromedia's Flash creation software. I like to code Flash/SWF files in a more direct, coder-friendly fashion and that's what Ming allows me to do.

I've been using Ming for eons and I've mostly been happy with v0.2 but that has limited me to creating Flash 5 files. That leaves out a bunch of dynamic content potential that Flash 6/7/MX adds.

Ming 0.3 has frustrated me until this point though, it's been in rapid development and every few months I've tried a broken compile with numerous and various errors due to missing resources and just plain bugs. Finally I've grabbed a CVS snapshot that has compiled cleanly (albiet as an external module, not my first choice but usable) and that makes me happy. I should finally be able to complete a few pet projects (including Gameslate's chat app) and maybe fix that annoying flicker effect on my webcam app.

Now if I can just clear my head long enough to do some coding.