The Symbolizer is an extension for Adobe Flash CS3 that helps speed up the organization of symbol creation by sorting during creation of the symbols rather then after they are created.

Features include:

1. Easy Panel Access. Having a panel allows you to have quick access to your symbol creation needs.


2. Naming Memory. If your sick of having to retype symbol names over and over you will definately enjoy this feature.


3. With a click of the mouse have symbols placed inside folders and subfolders on creation.


4. Autonaming- Add your own prefix and suffixes as well as an auto incrementing ability creating names like prefix_name_suffix_1.


5. Create Folders and SubFolders with ease

Purchase:
Simply pay through paypal and I’ll send you a copy of the symbolizer via email. This is NOT an automated system so it may take some time before your email with the information arrives (1-3 business days).

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Business Philosophy

Goals:

Experience:

Other Skills:

Programming:

Artistic.

Office.

Databases

OS

How I got started:

Clients:

From there I met several very talented artists such as Chris Georgenes of mudbubble.com and have done programming work for him on a few of his clients sites (more specifically GlobalprotectionCorp and mksdesign.com ).

My very own Symbolizer 1.0 has been a success selling copies to some of the most influential flash animators in the business.

Freelance history:

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Final Note:

Contact Me:

Baby steps.

Hopefully, I’m going to be bringing some interesting things back to the web again.

Take it easy everyone.
Jim

Well, I’ve been busy. I’ve moved into my own place in Murfreesboro, TN. It’s pretty cool up here. I’ve got some great neighbors and I’m located within 5 feet of a pool. Overall, everything is going well.

As for working on my own stuff, I haven’t had much time. Actually, I’m still settling in to my new place, and driving back and forth to my old house every other weekend, so its taking some time to get used to stuff. I plan on working on some projects as soon as I feel comfortable.

At work I’ve been learning some pretty cool stuff. Recently, I’ve been working with VMWare which turns out to be pretty cool. You can run multiple OS’s on a single box, which I can see as being a major money-saver.

I’ve also been working with Oracle – Oracle is not fun. It is way too complicated for what I would consider an “enterprise level” database. My idea of “enterprise level” is easy to use, easy to maintain, and as flexible as possible. Two of those things are missing. Now, that’s my humble opinion, but if I was paying thousands of dollars, I would require those three things out of a database, especially since there are free databases out there that have 75% of the above three attributes.

I’ve seen those Oracle Guru’s out there with their huge ego’s learning complicated software for the sake of learning it. Why make it any easier and put those $100,000 a year oracle admins out of work? I always see this elitism on the forums when I’m looking through old posts of people asking for help. I guess I’m not a member of the in-crowd quite yet, and I’m not entirely sure I want to be.

Well I’m getting of this machine for awhile,

Take it easy everyone,
Jim Fisher

Well I finally Graduated with Honors from the University of North Alabama. I’m glad to see it finally end, but also a little sad about saying good bye to some of the friends I made there this past year. I’ve suddenly been left with a lot of time on my hands, so I’ve been practicing RUBY.

RUBY is an awesome programming language that, in my opinion, is a real joy to use. I’ve been playing around with it for the past month or so. It took me all but a weekend to get the hang of the syntax, and now I’ve been learning to do more complex things with it. I like it better then even PYTHON, which was my previously held language champion. There is just something about RUBY that makes it fun to use.

Now that I’ve said that I love it, let me bring it back down to earth a bit about somethings I don’t much care for. For one thing, it’s not widely supported (yet). Secondly, there are still some bugs on the Windows-side of things. Finally, this one is somewhat related to the first, it’s hard to get it working on an APACHE webserver.

Once all these things are figured out – I think it will really take off. Obviously Windows is the most popular OS, so getting all the developer bugs out of it is a must. Apache is the most popular webserver, so the same goes for it.

Sometimes, I wish that a language like RUBY could be the good old compiled kind. So I’d never have to use C++ again, but alas – it is not. I’d also like to see a GUI toolkit that is simple to use or at least works just like the language that uses it. The closest thing I’ve seen is wxRUBY for RUBY, but I still don’t like somethings about it.

I’m quickly beginning to realize that it’s not the programming language that makes the language fun, its more the tools you use to develop with, that make it fun.

For example, I hate hand typing every little tag in an HTML page, so I use dreamweaver to speed up my workflow – sure you have to still know HTML to make corrections or minor modifications to generated code, but it still works really well.

The same hold true with Visual C++,C#,J#,BASIC, ETC. It just makes the language more useable instantly. Keeps me from having to type everything in.

So, now I await a Visual RUBY application. I might be smart enough to do it myself – one day. You never know.

You guys take it easy,

Jim

Been a while, just want to let everyone know that I’ll be competely relaunching the site with a new design pretty soon. I’m going to try to use the same backend as I have been using-so as to avoid URL changes.

On another note, I’ve hit a little snag. My laptop, in which I do all of my work on, has broken. So, I’ll be completely without my machine for two weeks, which will definetly put a snag in my work. I’m hoping to raise enough money to get an Apple computer- cause I’m sick of the whole Wintel thing.

As for the future, I plan on writing some more flash extensions-during a slow build up to SYmBolizer 2.0. I’ve got some utilities that once written will help bring together several extensions into a workflow powerhouse. Unfortunately, I’ve been incredibaly busy these last few months- having to program/ design/ go to school /etc. So, the sooner I get to it the better.

Also check out mudbubble.com he’s got a new layout, with a flash layout coming soon.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have a few brave souls buy and review my symbolizer 1.0 and so far they’ve all been great.

check out the one over at flashfilmmaker.com

feel free to add your own reviews there if you have had the pleasant experience of purchasing a copy.

I would like to personally thank each and every one of you who have purchased a copy. I worked very hard on it, and it’s great to see that everyone is so happy with it. I know there is still much more to do, so if you have purchased a copy please feel free to email me with suggestions of what you would like to see in the next version, and I’ll put it on the list.

Also another big Thanks to Chris who supports my efforts by plugging the Symbolizer in his last Devnet Presentation . The things Chris does without asking anything in return amazes me. So, Thank you Chris!!!

To everyone, I appreciate the support.

Thanks,

Jim

As for other news the Symbolizer has gotten some pretty good reviews! I’d like to thank Chris over at mudbubble.com for actually putting the Symbolizer on his site, as well as mentioning it in his Macromedia Breeze Presentation.

I’m considering a promotion for my Symbolizer 1.0 and Email me if you guys/gals like the idea. I’m thinking since loyal buyers tend to also bring me the most business via “word of mouth” I thought the best idea would be to give those buyers a 10% referal fee. So, for example, you just bought the Symbolizer 1.0 and you have 5 friends that also want to purchase a copy. You tell them to put you down as a referer when they buy a copy. If all 5 bought the standard single user licence copies you would get back $6.47 sent to you in your paypal. Of couse that’s assuming a basic purchase. Lets say that you got all 5 friends to buy the site wide license you would get $29.97 in your paypal. That’s at least some free beer for something you may have done anyway. What can I say I like to reward people. If you guys think this is a good Idea, or a bad one, just shoot me off an email.

Enjoy,
Jim