Sk-etchbook

I'm keeping busy been a loyal hermit at the moment. Predominantly I've been focussing on Actionscript 2.0, I've been doing this since about November. I was getting the hang of most of the basic stuff ie. controlling objects on the stage, detecting collisions, spacial detection of mouse or MC's, basic maths, loading and user interaction to name but a few. Since then I've done my usual trick of backtracking and trying to learn how to do things "Properly". I've been learning how to create pure Actionscript files, including the drawing coloring and motion of objects and text. This crops up a load of new issues I'm struggling with and as for getting my head round classes, "WTF?" is alll I have to say. Still I intend to battle on and I'm sure I'll suss it out eventually. The other area I'm focusing on is dynamics and faux intelligence, the dynamics is giving me a headache, not only do you need to understand Actionscript but then there is the communication to consider, this involves another language, I've opted for PHP and am slowly picking up some snippets of this. Then of course there would be the need for XML or mySQL to store all the dynamic content, XML is simple enough, mySQL can wait a week or two till I start on this.
In general tho the whole possibilities of incorporating, dynamic user specific content is very exciting, generating content which really is user generated and unique.
As for the clever Flash this is mainly achieved through variables, conditional statements and random generation of number or objects.
I've also started on consuming web services, this involves even more funny languages however also offers numerous possibilities.

On top of this I'm also trying to do as many tutorials in Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and CSS. Most of these areas I now have the technical understanding of how they work but need to work on my understanding of how to effectively produce the desired result.