Flash frozen on time

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Posted on February 12, 2009
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A recent bug tripped me up for a few hours, and so I thought it would be kind to share my embarrassing story. In my daily business, I use flash based rotators, a lot. If you ever took the time to stop by my official web site, you could see that I put a lot of value in flash as a content distribution system. So, it is a great concern, when one day I found an issue in one of my flash rotators. In the middle of rotating through a series of carefully selected images, one of them froze, in its place, dead on the screen. The tween itself never stopped, leaving me with a jumbled mess of images on top of each other peering out over the sides. PANIC!

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by Chris Gamble

Flash printing the slow way

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Posted on December 18, 2008
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Printing a form in these modern times is no miracle, unless you want an exact printout with detailed control from a webpage. In such cases, you must sacrifice a goat and two chickens -- unless you use Flash. CS4's printing engine is both robust and simple, making it the most useful internet tool of our time. Praise aside, after spending almost an entire day working on what routinely is a simple operation, I decided it was probably a good idea to share my experience.

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by Chris Gamble