Writing Comments in ActionScript for use with AsDoc

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

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

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

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.shtmlContinue reading “The 1984 Apple/Hillary video heralds an interesting shift in political messaging”

Is McDonald’s Ad Campaign Going Subliminal?

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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Find New Music For Free: Pandora.com

Pandora.com was created by the Music Genome Project, an interesting project that looks at the "DNA" of music and is able to create relationships between different songs and artists based on the character of the music.

You can use Pandora.com to find new music based on the artists that you already enjoy.  Very, very cool.

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