I started messing around with skinning and themes today in Flex. I'm not a graphics designer, but apparently I play one on TV. It was incredibly easy, as easy as CSS in an html page. It's pretty cool how you can take your bland, yet functional, flex application from zero to hero in just a few minutes. If you download a pre-built theme (scalenine is my favorite site for Flex themes), it's literally like 30 seconds to make your app da numba one stunna.
After a long day of reading and playing with graphics and styles, I went to my in-law's for dinner. The race is this weekend and my wife and I helped clean up a little and get things ready for all the guests. They live right by the track, so my father in-law always has a fantastic spread of food - they're probably the best host's I've ever met. People spend the night, go to the race, we pig out, go swimming, and then pig out some more (people usually start getting inebriated about this time). Then Erinn and I (and the rest of the fam) are left to clean up the mess (not that we mind - after all we helped make it).
So on the way home I was thinking over the day and it hit me - wouldn't it be nice if I could put apply a skin, style, filter, theme, etc... to my life whenever it suited me. I could put on a nice shiny skin when I need to impress someone, or downgrade to a more disheveled skin when I don't want to act too arrogant, or put on my goin out theme (the one with the cool filters) for, well...., goin out.
I sure am glad people like me for who I am. I mean, I think I'm a cool guy. Right Cool Guys?...
Guys?....
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I'm not a guy but I think you're pretty cool.
Thanks, nicolekidd. I can't lie... I was getting a little worried.
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