In actuality, I have not been very well with my health for the past few days and things have been worst yesterday and today. I am unable to sit in front of the computer for long, feeling sorta dizzy/uneasy and weak, so taking rest more often than working. At this very juncture my only connection with the other world besides the internet got into some trouble again, my nokia 8310 somehow started mis-behaving and I am totally out of touch. While watching an old movie, “Hot Shot” and relaxing, I just browse some sites which I always had a great respect for and admire the same. And yes, I updated my site yesterday as I was unable to sleep and was feeling uneasy, I just cook up this front page, I am not sure when will I be able to complete the other parts, the opensource, flash interface and all the other features that I am planning to have on my site, which got successfully moved to (mt) media temple with Flash Remoting enabled, hoping to play with Flash Remoting and the blog is now fully powered by Movable Type. Thanks to Benjamin Trott for installing Movable Type for me, I am afraid of all those cgi and perl stuffs, so I went in for a installation request from them. The comments are gone for the moment but I will put them slowly and steadily by myself manually.
I had always loved the stuffs at Levitated, it is one of those resourceful site which can keep going again and again and still say wow. You will also like to see one of my good friend, Chris Georgenes popularly known as Phatkow on the Macromedia Flash Forum, mudbubble. Check his cartoons, I had a special liking and attachment to his western cowboy kinda cartoon that he have, it was once a flash 5.0 player detection animation he was using, check that cartoon by browsing inside his creations besides the other equally cool ones. Another helpful personnel in the flash community worth mentioning is that of Peter Hall, he have many useful tips/tricks and resources on his website. Pay him regular visits if you want to learn new things about flash. Though not complaining, I saw that my site is now removed from his blog links, anyway this will just serve me as an encouragement to strive more towards the flash community so that he starts thinking that I am worthy to be linked again.
As usual, I went through some of the most resourceful flash blogs that is in my favorite links, if you are looking for some of the most useful flash blogs, then I suggest not to miss that of, Mike Chambers. Greg Burch also sported a new, way too cool blog. Mentioning of the two good blogs above, it just struct me that Josh Dura have been doing a good job, let us watch who is his next blog design target besides the already released two cool blogs mentioned above. On the blog topic, this paragraph will be incomplete without mentioning that of Eric, Guy Watson, Michael E. Gunn, Jarle Dahl Bergersen and Mario Klingemann.
Talking about good flash resources, the flashcoder’s list at chattyfig.figleaf.com is worth a million to subscribe, not just the flashcoders list, you may also subscribe to the flashcomm list if you are doing stuffs on the Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX.
And now without mentioning the names of a few flash developers that I have been a fan throughout my flash career would be an incomplete story. Samuel Wan, Branden Hall and Colin Moock will continue to inspire all flash developer for days to come.
Let me finish this post off by mentioning about some books which are the best at this time of flash development, well, everyone knows them but let me just say that Actionscript for Flash MX : The Definitive Guide and Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript are the must haves for this season. Out of curiosity, you may wish to view by Wish List on Amazon.
