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Happy New Year!

January 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am by Ahmet Gyger

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I wish you all the best for 2009!!!
Good health, happiness and success : )
Ahmet

Actionscript 3.0 Video Tutorial #9: Auto Update AIR Application

July 31st, 2008 at 3:36 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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It tooks me more than six month to create a fresh new tutorial, but finally here it is!
This tutorial shows how to automatically update an AIR application when a more recent AIR file is on Internet.
I hope it is easy to follow and clear :)
You can watch it here.
You can see all my AS3 video [...]

My First Last Day :)

July 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Today is my last day in the first 100% (non freelance) job I had. It’s funny to see how man can be attached to a team and to an environment.
It was a great experience for me, they recruited me even before I finished my MS, 1 and 1/2 year ago. I learned a lot, realized [...]

Adobe offers to Google and Yahoo! Flash Player Technology – Is It Really A Good News?

July 1st, 2008 at 9:38 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Adobe, Flash, Flex, Marketing, Point of View, Web Design



I’ve just read via the AXNA that Adobe, Google and Yahoo! worked together to allow SWF searchability. My first thought was ‘finally they made it’ :)
But while reading the FAQ I’ve been a little disappointed by how this indexation seems to happen:
[...]The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file similarly [...]

Stepping Down as an User Group Manager –> Moving to Zurich @ Microsoft Unified Communication

June 18th, 2008 at 11:55 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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I am stepping down as the ‘User Group Manager’ of the Adobe User Group Geneva. It was a great time for me being a UGM, Adobe really cares about us and the community, I have an incredible collection of Adobe’s T-Shirt :p.
I’m very proud of the growth of AUGG, we started in November 2006 with [...]

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 [...]

Back to the Army, for 3 weeks…

April 14th, 2008 at 10:00 am by Ahmet Gyger

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I still remember this cold and foggy morning, doing some exercises.

This morning, I’m leaving again to give my services to the country, well I wished I could be more useful :)
Anyway, this blog will most certainly be muted until I come back, in May.
So, bookmark or grab the RSS feed and wish me good [...]

Tired of having my Blog Spammed…

April 9th, 2008 at 10:25 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Marketing, Point of View



Lately someone found a hole on my wordpress blog and use it to inject hidden links.
I was a bit reticent of upgrading my wordpress as I had customize it with a lot of my own functions but enough is enough!
So I’m going to reinstall a fresh new wordpress and say goodbye to my functions :( [...]

Convincing your Boss to Use AIR – Step #1

February 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, Adobe, Experiment, Flex, Marketing, Point of View, RIA



In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies.
I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it  ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked greatly [...]

Why? Videos from the AUGG :)ooooo

February 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, Adobe, Flash, Flex, Point of View, Videos



Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time :)
If you want [...]