Brajeshwar

“Comments are a sign of bad code in two ways. First of all, you add them to code that isn’t clear without them. Good comments are comments that add clarity to code that isn’t clear or isn’t sufficiently clear without them. There’s no point in belaboring the obvious or having a comment that fails to explain the nonobvious. Now imagine taking a good comment and removing it. You are now left with code that is bad, or at least not as good as it could be. In that limited sense, comments are a sign of bad code.”
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Textpad is my favorite Text Editor so far, and I use it as the external editor for ActionScript. I was happy to see Chak at the Macromedia Seminar here in Mumbai, India, using the same.

Update: I have removed the syntax file for ActionScript as it is no longer relevant. Please download the latest ActionSctipt syntax file from the Syntax Definition page of Textpad.

Flashcomm Components, they have been upadated and 2 more components (15th Component : VideoPlayback and the 16th : VideoRecord) have been added. Go get your FREE download today. Thanks to Sam for the quick info.
Remember to read the documentation of the 2 new components in the PDF that is enclosed with the communication components package. It is also learnt that the “SimpleConnect” component no longer has a memory leak on the client-side; previously, the memory leak occurred if you typed faster than 1 character every 10 milliseconds. And no more problem of those people …

“You will experience firsthand power of Macromedia Cold Fusion MX, see how to integrate rich Macromedia Flash content with applications built using ColdFusion MX, .NET, Java and SOAP-based web services using Flash Remoting MX and as well as learn how to easily integrate streaming, bidirectional audio, video and data with Macromedia Flash Communication Server.
Flash Communication Server Segment MX
If you develop and deploy communications or real-time data on websites like sporting news, movie trailers, stock prices, live auction, online sales, webinars and so on for marketing, training or corporate communications purposes, we’ll show you how to integrate streaming, bi-directional audio, video …

The notorious “bitmap shift” of Flash expires with the release of the beta player plug-in 6,0,60,65. We will miss you terribly in days to come.

Firefly for Flash is a professional suite of components that let you manage data within Flash MX applications. Visual property editors unique to Firefly make writing ActionScript to manage data a thing of the past. Firefly’s architecture includes an extensive API that gives developers total control over managing data. Firefly Plug-ins currently available include XML, Remoting and SQL Server.

FlashDoc takes the pain out of creating ActionScript documentation for Flash MX components. FlashDoc parses comment tags in your ActionScript to generate properly formatted Flash MX documentation. A few lines of ActionScript comments is all it takes …

This site is a cool site sent to me by one of my advisor. Check the site yourself.

Why not just look at the 101 reasons you should use Mozilla over IE. A friend of mine send me this link.

EgoMedia got a new look with new features, they are still in chromeless though.
Their new site ego7 still retained my login settings from the old site and now I can upload my Clips and Video file to their server. They even have a blog. Enjoy the chat, board, messenger etcetera, check them out.

Another great flasher have put up his blog. So, expect some good tutorials and open source from him, he is that good helper at the macromedia flash web forum at Macromedia. He also frequent Branden Hall’s, high traffic flash coders mailing list, flashcoder’s list. And yes, he is not Branden’s son ;-).
Why not point your browser to Peter Hall’s Blog.

I am in need of some good Flash developer again, I am sorry to say that the developer should be near me, that is Mumbai or atleast in India and who can communicate with me frequently through MSN, Yahoo or ICQ, please e-mail me with example works. I would prefer more of a back-end developer this time. Please clearly mention your hourly rate or project rate. Knowledge of PHp/mySQL or MS SQL 2000 would be an added advantage.