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I am even a bigger A**

May 30th, 2008 at 1:41 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Adobe



Good news for me, I just passed the Adobe Certified Expert in Dreamweaver CS3 exam and achieve a not so good score of 80% in 30 minutes. After my certification in Flash CS3 two weeks ago, it is now the time for the next one :)
I wanted to thanks the folks at Adobe who [...]

A Chat with FMS 3 coded in ActionScript 3.0

May 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in ActionScript3, Experiment, Flash, Tutorials



Some days ago I started using FMS (Flash Media Server). Obviously I wanted to write my project in AS3 and realized that they weren’t a lot of documentation on the topic, that why I’ll post here every part of code I made working.
My last project was about creating a chat. I downloaded the demo from [...]

What I love in DW CS4

May 27th, 2008 at 11:55 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Adobe, Web Design



I had the hand on Dreamweaver CS4 for more than one month now, I’ll share with you what really helped me in my everyday life. To shorten, for people afraid of my English: if you didn’t make the move to DW CS3 du to the lack of improvement you will be happy with DW CS4!
It [...]

I’m officially an A**

May 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Adobe



I just passed my exam of Adobe Flash CS3 Certified Expert (ACE) and achieve a not so bad score of 92%… in 15 minutes (from the 90 minutes available).
Exam wasn’t hard but there still was some tricky questions.
Well, now it is time for the next one :-)
Congratulations to Cédric who did as well pass [...]

Flash Media Server 3: calling a function from ASC to AS3
(Server – Client interaction)

May 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in ActionScript3, Flash, Tutorials



I had quite a hard time figuring out how to call a function hosted on FMS (an .asc file) and how to call a function on the client from the server. I’m new to FMS (Flash Media Server) and there is not a ton of documentation, updated, for ActionScript 3.0.
So here is a simple example [...]

What Google Knows About Spam

May 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Marketing, Web Design



Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team has published on his blog his session at Web 2.0 Expo:

You can access all the video from the expo on Blip.tv
It is interesting to note that Google have no problem with SEO and that the politic again (web) spammer is to make them lose time, effort and [...]

Is using Flash Wrong for SEO and Usability?

May 7th, 2008 at 10:48 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Marketing, Point of View, RIA, Usability, Web Design



Shari Thurow, the Founder and SEO Director of Omni Marketing Interactive wrote a very interesting answer in led-digest.com about the solution I blogged a while ago: ‘Holy Grail: SEO Model for Flash and Flex Content‘.
Here are a few quotes of her, with my answer below:
[...]as long as you are giving search engines one version of [...]

Applying ‘Semantic Web’ standard for SWF

May 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Flash, Flex, Intelligence, RIA, Web Design



Recently Digg made an official adoption of RDFa (a set of extensions to XHTML being proposed by the W3C). While watching a tutorial about RDFa (below video) I asked myself how it could be possible to do it for Flash/ Flex document.

In fact bringing RDFa to a SWF itself is not possible, as I [...]