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

Let's end this year at #1

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Posted on December 31, 2008
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2008 if nothing else was dramatic. Businesses that survived found themselves facing new challenges. Finding new venues to attract customers was not one of them. The internet had developed into a myriad of ways where adventuresome businesses could sift out gold. Of course, with every gold mine, you have a few lucky people walking out of the mine with gold, and hundreds of others making their gold by selling mining tools. Search Engine Marketing continues to grow into a massive business, attracting everything from hard-core data analysts to snake oil sales men. Unfortunately, many of the SEM companies I have had the pleasure of working with, fell well into the later category.

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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

Flash XML Socket Server Goes Open Source

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Posted on September 30, 2008
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During the off-time, we work on our casual gaming system (see http://www.virtuaguild.com). We haven't had a lot of time to invest yet, but have already come up with some extremely useful tools. My favorite of our tools is the Flash XML socket system used for real-time communications. A lot of design time was put into making the system pluggable and extensible, using tools such as desktop scripting, jndi, and XML to make a product that would work for any of our games.

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by Chris Gamble