Beauty from out of the clutter
I’ve just got a lovely new Imac and rather than use the ingenious system transfer software to put my old system onto my new iMac, I made the decision to start afresh. What a wonderfully uncluttered place a new mac can be, I’m even finding relatively easy updating passwords I had locked into my old browser and thought I’d forgotten, not to mention those few bookmarks I kept on my bookmark bar rather in the horrible mess that is my delicious account.
I am in an overall state of transition at the moment, back as the master of my own destiny and working alone as a freelancer with a new computer, new clients, new office and new ideas. I’m even trying to get my file system back into some kind of reasonable shape, taking ideas from blitz agency, although being a single handed company means that there is less ‘need’ for some of the protocols. I’ve tried about 3 or 4 methods over the years. Everyone makes a mess of the last and although you always mean to go back to those old projects and reshape them into your new project structure for sanity’s sake, you never quite find the time. My latest foray took me into Version Cue which on paper solved a lot of my problems, but like most software that’s designed to help you out, it just does a little too much in one corner, and not enough in another. So now there’s another mess series of projects out of sync with everything else.
I think ideally I should (though never will) find the time to write an AIR application that takes the best bits from Version Cue, bundle a SVN layer underneath and use the naming conventions described in the Blitz developer article. Add a little Apple Script here and there for file management, and I think I’d be happy. Hey ho, onto newProject_034_GE.fla.