I will probably post reviews on these books as i go through them and get and better understanding of AS3.
My method of reading has been to read through required topics in each book rather than the cover to cover method.
I have already posted some basic working examples already here on the blog that work with having your code on the timeline (AS2 method of coding). I have never done flash work before that involved classes and packages but from what i have read so far I can now look at my personal flash site and see the greater benefits of using/learning AS3.
The main reason for the blog entry more than anything else is so that i can look back in a couple of years and think about what i have learned from these books in this time and think how i have developed as an AS3 developer. Obviously i will be submitting AS3 examples over time to the blog.
The two 19-storey flats in Glasgow’s Sighthill were brought down at 0230am. Unfortunately that was i missed this. I was doing what the rest of Glasgow as doing at this time in the morning.
Thankfully i got an email in my inbox on sunday morning with some great snaps my friend took.
We’ve received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins—software engineers on our indexing team—will provide us with more in-depth information about our recent announcement that we’ve greatly improved our ability to index Flash.
Q: Which Flash files can Google better index now?
We’ve improved our ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds. This includes Flash “gadgets” such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites, and everything in between.
Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files?
All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in Google searches.
In addition to finding and indexing the textual content in Flash files, we’re also discovering URLs that appear in Flash files, and feeding them into our crawling pipeline—just like we do with URLs that appear in non-Flash webpages. For example, if your Flash application contains links to pages inside your website, Google may now be better able to discover and crawl more of your website.
This contact form is not quite as simple as the first. I have added a new email validation process which is new to AS3(regexp email validate) Thanks to flashcs.org for the script. I have also added a drop down menu with the list of countries being pulled from an array. A complete list of the country codes in flash format(array) can be found here.
‘Scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine and a northerly wind’ is good weather!
The only sausage you like is square.
You have been forced to do Scottish country dancing every year at high school.
You know a wide vocabulary of random Scottish words - an idiot is a numpty. Aye - yes, Aye right - not likely, Auldjin - someone over 40, Baltic- freezing.
You have an irrational need to eat anything fried with your supper from the chippy - haggis, pizza, white pudding, sausage, fish, chicken.
You used to love destroying your teeth when you where young; Buchanan’s toffees, Wham bars, tablet, Irn-Bru bars, Cola cubes etc.
You have an enormous feeling of dread when every Scotland play a diddy team.
You happily engage in conversation about the weather.
Even if you normally hate the Proclaimers, Runrig, Caledonia, Deacon Blue, Big Country etc. You still love it when your in a club abroad and they play something Scottish( You”l probably even ask the dj to play it again)
You take a perverse pride in the fact Scotland has the highest number of alcohol and smoking related deaths in Europe.
You need to watch Glen Michael’s cartoon Cavalcade on a Sunday afternoon with his sidekick oil lamp called Paladin.
You get Oor Wullie or Broons annuals at Christmas.
You have come in from the pub pissed with flatmate’s and watch Weir’s Way, engrossed by a little guy with a bobbly hat walking around Scotland.
You can tell where another scot is from by there accent, “Awright pal, gonnae gies a wee swatch oa yur Record, cheers, magic
pal” Fifer: “Aye, that wifie is getting it oan wi a laddie fae the
butchers” Dundonian: “Twa bridies, a plen ane in an ingin ane an a”
Aberdonian: “Fit ya bin up tae, fair few quines in the night eh?”
Invernesian: “Ah-ee, Right Enufff! “How’s you keeeeeepeeeen?”.
You see cops and hear someone shout ‘Errrapolis’.
You have participated in or witnessed people having a ’square go’.
You know that when someone asks you which school you went to, they want to know if your a Protestant or Catholic.
You have eaten lots and lots of random Scottish food like mince 7 tatties, haggis, cullen skink, stovies, Tunnock’s tea cakes/Snowballs, Scott’s porage oats, Macaroon bars, Baxter’s Soup, Scotch pies, Scotch eggs, oatcakes, shortbread and Arbroath smokies.
A JAKEY has asked you for money: ‘Got any spare change hen?’.
You think nothing od waiting expectantly for your 1p change from the shop keeper.
You know the right response to ‘yoo dancin’ is ‘yoo askin’, followed by ‘am askin’ and finally ‘them am dancin!!’
You know that whenever you see sawdust it reminds you of pools of vomit because that’s what the ‘jannies’ used to chuck on it.
You lose all respect for a groom who doesn’t wear a kilt.
You don’t do shopping, you do the ‘messages’.
You’re sitting on the train/bus and a drunk man sits beside you, telling you a ‘joke’ and saying ‘I’m no annyoying ye am a hen/pal?’ You: ‘Not at all, yer fine. Ah i think this is my stop!’
A Scottish male can have a phone conversation using only ‘awright’, ‘aye’ and ‘naw’.
You have experienced peer pressure to have an alcoholic drink after you’ve ordered something non-alcoholic. ‘Mon, have a drink, whit’s wrang, ye driving? Naw. You know well? Naw. Get yersel a drink.’
You know ye cannae fling pieces oot a 20-storey flat, seven hundred hungry weans’ll testify, to that. If it’s butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan, the odds against it reaching earth are 99 tae wan.
You know that going to a friend’s house for a party means bring your own drinks.
Your holiday abroad is ruined if you hear there is a heatwave in Scotland while you’re away.
Your national team goes 2-0 up against the Czechs in a qualifier in Prague, and your mate says ‘We’ll end up losing 3-2 here!’ and you think ‘probably’.
You can properly pronounce McConnochie, Ecclefechan, Milngavie, and Auchtermuchty.
You like deep fried pizza from the chippie.
You’re used to four seasons in one day.
You cant pass a chippie/kebab shop without drolling while you’re drunk.
You can fall about drunk without spilling your drink.
You see people wearing shellsuits with burberry accessories - and thinks that’s pure classs!
You measure distance in minutes.
You can understand Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him in your own family.
You goto Saltcoats because you think it is like going to the ocean.
You can make a whole sentence with just swear words.
You know what haggis is made with - and still eat it.
Somebody you know used a football schedule to plan there wedding day date.
You’ve been at a wedding and football scores are announced in the church/chapel.
You aren’t surprised to find curries, pizza’s, kebabs, Irn-bru, fags and nappies in one shop.
Your seaside home has a calor gas under it.
You know Irn-bru is a hangover cure.
You learned to swear before you learned to do sums.
You understand this and are going to send it to your pals.
You are 100 per cent Scottish if you have ever heard these words: How’s it hingin?, clatty, boggin, cludgie, Ba-heid, baw bag, and double nugget.
