#6 Why?!

Aloha people,

It is sunday night/monday morning and I am posting something at 2:36 AM....
I had a decent weekend that was a mix of productivity, learning, beer, soccer and party.

It all started out nicely..
At friday I came home sat down behind my computer and digitalized the improved storydraft.
Afterwards I wanted to get going with Ximpel, since I had to make a <video> for the next monday. That <video> needed to contain some Ximpel as proof that you can use it. (That's what I thought the assignment was.) Anyway I went on changing things in the workshop example. Things worked out great everything did what I wanted. After I had done that I went to get groceries to make sure I get something to eat that day.

After dinner I let Ximpel be, since I managed to change the workshop the way I wanted. So I relaxed a bit drank some and went to bed at around 23:00.

Next day was saturday, going to tell this a bit different.
6:30 Wake up, hygiene stuff, pack soccer bag, breakfast, brush teeth.
7:15 Go to work till 10:30.
10:30 Chat with colleagues.
11:10 Go get money from the ATM.
11:20 Go to ENC'09
12:30 Beat the rival team with 5 - 2.
14:30 Watch the other team while enjoying a drink.
16:15 Get some beer!
19:30 Join some fellow ENC"09 that are going to KlaasVaak (a bar).
19:40 Get something from the snackbar before continuing drinking beer at KlaasVaak.
22:45 Decide that you go to lucky as well, with a cab.
23:45 Go home dress up and get in the cab.
00:30 Arrive at lucky and party!
04:30 Take a cab home.
05:00 Sleep!

Then the next day began.. it was a messy sunday.

At around 12:30 I woke up and had breakfast. I already had a plan from some other time of what I wanted to do with Ximpel... Yes, I had already decided that the sunday was going to be Ximpel and watching Eredivisie.

So.. Ximpel:

I went on making the code for what I wanted based on the code from the workshop. It took me about 4 hours to write it all out the first time.. Yes.. I did it multiple times... I tested it, but it didn't work anymore!
So I looked at the code and checked if there were any problems that I could find. I changed some things that were not needed and cleaned it up a bit also. Also transitioned into the basic package thing. Using the ximpelConfig.

                                         But still: Could not load playlist/fast.xml WHY?!

I went to the ximpel homepage and read many things, checked many tutorials. Nothing.... nothing...noppes.. I think I spend over 10 hours working on that thing. This was a real letdown..

# 5 Vroom!

Good day readers,

Last week I was a bit concerned. I did not like the story we had for our interactive video and went to ask some people in the group how they felt about the story we had at the time, I also did a proposal for another perspective, but I think they felt that it would be a too radical change. I also agreed that it was a radical step, but we were not progressing very well in the group in my opinion.

Ximpel works nicely. The coding is not very hard, but I do still need to find out some things about it I think. Creating choices in the video is part of what I can do at the moment and to be honest I don't think you need a lot more than that.

We then decided we needed to discuss things and make a good solid plan for the interactive video, we all looked up some videos on youtube we could use and made youtube accounts to be able to share what we found. ('http://www.youtube.com/jellecreate' <-- my account)

Today I am feeling good. During lunch we had a good discussion with our 'We Create Identity' group about the Alien Invasion scenario. We finally changed our story-draft a bit to something that can become something instead of a story that hardly makes any sense. Don't get me wrong, the story was fun.. but in my opinion not a good story to work with for the interactive video.

So after creating a new concept we made sure everyone knows what he/she has to do.

For this weekend I will make a Ximpel video, I think I will do it about aliens... but I am not sure yet.