Flexibility and Cost-Savings in Hosting Different Parts of Your Site on Different Networks

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An effective website contains a number of complicated and diverse systems:

  • Content Management System
  • E-mail Newsletter System
  • E-commerce
  • Forums
  • Blogs
  • Spam Hardened Contact Forms
  • And more . . .

In many cases there are affordable, hosted services that you can quickly deploy for a fraction of the cost of having them custom built for your existing website.

Being open to the possibility of hosting different parts of your website on different networks provides you the opportunity to test out new → Continue reading “Flexibility and Cost-Savings in Hosting Different Parts of Your Site on Different Networks”

Writing Comments in ActionScript for use with AsDoc

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Here are some good resources about writing comments for AsDoc and using AsDoc to generate documentation for your code:

How to write comments

Adobe’s Doc page on writing comments and using AsDoc

Another link about Using AsDoc

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Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3

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A great article by Senocular.  Certainly required if you are looking to make the jump from AS 2.0 to AS 3.0.

It does look like any code that you have in 2.0 is going to be completely obsolete and require a complete rewrite.→ Continue reading “Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3”

Chocolate does it again, and this time without sugar

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Chocolate does it again, and this time without sugar
iTWire – 1 hour ago
By
William Atkins. Chocoholic researchers find that unsweetened cocoa
improves blood vessels, which is a good indicator of a healthy heart.
Dark Chocolate May Lighten the Load on Arteries Forbes
Eat chocolate for good arteries! Zee News
Los Angeles Times – PRESS TV – Reuters – Arizona Daily Star
all 28 news articles ?→ Continue reading “Chocolate does it again, and this time without sugar”

The 1984 Apple/Hillary video heralds an interesting shift in political messaging

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A video posted on YouTube spoofing a apple ad from 1984 featuring Hillary Clinton as Big Brother seems to herald the end on an age when politicians had control over their message. http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/03/19.5.shtml→ Continue reading “The 1984 Apple/Hillary video heralds an interesting shift in political messaging”

Is McDonald’s Ad Campaign Going Subliminal?

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Someone recently noticed a single frame McDonalds ad inserted into an Iron Chef America episode on the Food Network. The Food Network execs claim that it was a glitch. Interestingly enough Clear Channel Entertainment has started running 1 second radio ads called blinks and the client used to demo the product was McDonalds. It seems plausible that McDonalds might be rolling out a series of subliminal ads. Are you lovin that?

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