The End ;)

Aug 302006
 

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After 3 month, my last project in Flash development comes to an end. Today our customer has accepted the final version. I was asked to develop a Flash interface for displaying video (flv) and to interconnect with database information by XML. You can check here the final project.
I worked with a great team on this project:
Management: Multimedia Architects
Database: Atelier Freelance
UI & Video: Beautifulscreen
Music & Sound: Picture Start
Flash development: Metah (me;)

I’ve learned a lot in this project and I’m really looking forward to work again with you all ;)

Ahmet

WOM : 43 Ideas You can Implement Tomorrow

Aug 292006
 

This one is for marketer, from Womma: 43 ideas to implement your WOM strategy. Although some are obvious other are really interesting. And well, in my point of view, the Buzz marketing should really be implemented in early development. What are the user wishes ? What could be the must “Sexy new development”? How can we use user for promoting and testing?
If all this questions isn’t answered before development I guess it’s really hard to make solid rock technologies. So much still have the “it’s not my job” point of view, but marketing should be as every level of your enterprise (development, design, analyst).

Ahmet

Google Webmaster Central

Aug 282006
 

logo GoogleGoogle has opened new tools for webmastering. Those tools added with Google analytics can offer a good overview of your website (from Google Bot point of view).

[...]comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites. You can learn here how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study statistics on how your site is doing in our index, and tell us how you’d like your site to be crawled and indexed.[...]

The webmaster tools contrary to the analytics tools give informations about your website from google. There is a diagnostic part with the status given by your pages (HTTP errors, Not Found, …). You can also check if the Google Web crawl access your pages or not, you can also (and this is new I guess) check if the Google Mobile crawl work, so you can know if you mobile.site source code is CHTML/XHTML/WML compatible ;)
For the statistic you can also have some really nice informations about your average position within your website Top search queries. For example I’ve learned that if you search for Adobe Flash 9 in google.com my average position is 10! or try typing adobe tryouts and my website should be in third position.
Even nicer you can know what are the query that bring most click to your website. For example most of the queries that bring to my website from Google contain “flash tutorials” somewhere in the last three weeks
There are more useful tools (word : site content – external link to your site || pagerank : position, top page)

Ahmet

AS3 video tutorial : helloworld

Aug 272006
 

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I’ve just opened a new folder for actionscript3 over my server. You can access it directly with the url : as3.metah.ch
My first video is about beginning AS3 with Flash 9 Alpha and to create a little helloworld application in AS3.
My English is quite terrific and I hope you can still understand what I say ;)
This tutorials is inspired by the AS3doc but IS working.
If you still haven’t downloaded Flash 9 Alpha yet, you can get it from Adobe Labs.
Watch the video (app. 5 min).
Download the source.

Ahmet

Mobile Innovations of the Future

Aug 232006
 

image Just read from mobile-weblog a link to Six Mobile Innovations that Will Change Your Life.

- Mobile payment
- Mobile presence
- Ubiquitous computing
- Ubiquitous media
- Health applications
- People (and object) tracking

Ahmet

Meeting Fscommand2 with Flash Lite 2.0

Aug 232006
 

Here a little example about using Fscommand2 with Flash Lite, you can access some low level (not really but kind of) information about Network, Player Memory, Platform and so on. As you can guess it doesn’t work on Flash Player(that why what you see bug) but it works well in emulator and on FlashLite2 Player.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.metah.ch/blog/image/sources/network.swf" height="230" width="190" /]

Here is the fla. Code is commented and free.
Direct link to the example swf.

Ahmet

Introducing problem in Java Micro Edition

Aug 212006
 

Interesting post from Munja where he makes a work around about Java Micro Edition most obvious problems.

[…] The force of java was always portability, on the other hand: compile once run everywhere. In the world of desktop java this promise is respected (even if in opinion of some colleagues it is more like: compile once debug everywhere :-) ).[…]

That could be me, and for mobile device it’s even worst: compile as many time as existing device and debug as many time you compile.

Read the complete post from J2Mobile.

Ahmet

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