Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Golden Rule bit ye in yer arse?

    Have you been nice to a programmer you know? If not, you may be in trouble. I’ve made an extreme effort to be nice, courteous, and respectful to all of the programmers I’ve met in online mailing lists and forums in helping them with Flash. Anytime I had a hardcore programming question, they were more than willing to help me out.

    Now that Flash Pro has landed, people like me need a lot of questions answered to get over the initial programming hurdles before I can make serious progress on my own. Thankfully, I’ve picked up a few good online friends to help out, and other aquaintances.

    I just hope others are in my boat. It’s nice having all of these smart people around now to ask questions, who, for the past year and a half, I was ansering theirs. When the tables are turned, it’s still cool, ya know?

  • EOLAS: Who gives a…

    Alright, enough is enough, stop talking about this retarded subject! For crying out loud, this is stuipid, and NOTHING WILL HAPPEN!!!

    Someone once told me Microsoft had to remove IE from windows because of all those suits. It never happened.

    Someone once told me search engines were going to go to a “you pay, you come up in a search.” Big companies were supposedly paying for this. So, if you searched for “ducks” on google, only those who paid would get a higher search engine placement. It never happened.

    Someone once told me that a patent infringement case against Microsoft would remove plugins from working in web browsers the same, thus affecting the web in negative ways. From removing existing browsers from the market cause they cannot afford the patent infringement cost to negatively affecting the industry because web pages would be reduced to older technologies to get around the infringement. It will never happen.

    Shut up and move people… there are a lot cooler things to discuss, like Flash 7, for example. It, for example, is a reality that will instatantiate change into things.

    I know I can’t prevent it from coming up again in a few years when all the appeals get publicized, but I hope by then you’ll at least take them with a grain of salt seeing that NOTHING HAPPENED!

  • What in Flashcom do you want?

    If you could have a Flashcom article of your choice in the next MX Developers Journal, what would it be about?

    Examples:
    – A Different Kind of Flogger (Aussie’s laugh, Admin’s unite)
    – Remote Shared Objects vs. XMLSocket

    ???

  • Kudos to Mike Chambers & All Other MM Customer Relation Types

    I’m frustrated. Wanna know why? How would you like if those people who bitched an wined about how Flash sux were on a forumn that only THEY were on, ALL day. Then, people like Mike Chambers read that forumn, and made the assumption that this was the voice of the community, and they actually modified Flash to suit those “supposed” community needs. Wouldn’t ever happen, right?

    Well, it’s happening with Star Wars Galaxies right now. Somehow, the forumns that station.sony.com hosts appear to be the main customer feedback area. Not only that, but they are communist-like controlled in that some posts are deleted, and a lot of them ignored by the devs.

    The game was released with a lot of bugs and things didn’t work, but it was, and still is fun as hell. However, they keep changing things, and only fixing 1 or 2 bugs each change (about every 3 days). The game is not what it was 2 months ago.

    The people on the forumns are rude a-holes, negative, and frustrated with no way other than the forums to funnel their frustration towards SOE, the company making the game. Out of the hundreds of people I’ve met online and played with, I’ve only met 2 who were “slightly” annoying, and even then, I’d still play with them. No one acts like they do in the forumns. I don’t like them being my representatives, but the forums suck usability wise, and customer relation wise.

    Over the course of 2 years, I’ve seen Macromedia people get involved in all walks of life to understand their customer’s needs. I’ve seen the results of people’s inquires, suggestions, and frustations. I’ve seen Macromedia improve their products. By giving us people to talk to, and “inside” channels of information, Flash (yes, and ColdFusion, and all the others) has given us such a great community of people and a phat product.

    You don’t appreciate someone until you realize how valuable they are when you don’t have them.

    Thanks guys and gals! I think I speak for the Flash community, and the MM community as a whole when I say thank you, you are appreciated!