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Hello world (again)!

December 24, 2010 burakk

Moving to WordPress after 7 years of MovableType with TypePad (Thanks for the ride).

(Truth is I don’t blog much anymore – I mean, even less than usual, I was never a heavy blogger – but I’m on twitter regularly – mostly I retweet and mark favs…).

Anyway, the move seems went fine – I will fix image links later, there are not many in any case.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays and whatever you may be celebrating!

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ASV is 9 today…

May 16, 2009 burakk

So I haven’t been posting lately.

I was obviously busy, but main reason was (as I have written before) I didn’t want to sound like trying to sell more copies of ASV using my blog, and I didn’t want to post off-topic, but any on topic useful bits of info I could share was un-shareable. What was left was Adobe press release like news, like the recent Flash CS4 10.0.0.2 update, but I decided I didn’t want that long ago.

Of course, I can always post about hot topics of the day, like recent Flex Builder name change to Flash Builder. Well, I hate it and I think it’s wrong. Adobe is exploiting the ‘Flash’ name and I think it will not help the ‘Flash’ brand or the platform. A totally, absolutely wrong move – will cause lots of confusion in the long run* (so I totally disagree with KP on this one). OK I said it, it won’t change anything (other than maybe some people with strong feelings about this will start not having good thoughts about me).

A few months ago I even did an off-topic test blog to see if I can really post at least daily. I saw that I could.

Anyway…

Today is ASV’s 9th anniversary. I had to post, because I realized if I didn’t, some people might get wrong ideas about us, ASV, ASV’s future etc. We are on pre-release for quite some time now, for various reasons, but we are working and alive just as we always have been (We released last pre-release ASV just 16 days ago with improved SWF 10 and AS3 support). Second of all, I call myself ‘ASV Guy’, so this makes this post appropriate. And 9 years is quite a long time for any product.

I don’t know how often I will post here, hopefully my next post will not be exactly this day next year…

* Unless Adobe is getting ready to ‘phase out’ Flash IDE, the authoring tool, which would be a worse (or probably the worst) move and Lee Brimelow says this is not the case.

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Blog comments…

January 4, 2008 burakk

I moderate all comments. That surely stops any spam reaching ‘published’ state and to you, but I have to deal with them all. Most spam and inappropriate comments are not interesting at all. Here are two comments I received for my last post in succession:

Comment:
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Always enjoy reading this blog. Please keep up the good work.

Commenter name: jamie
Commenter email: anonymous@anonymous.com
IP address: xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

IP address shows this one’s from Florida. There’s no email, no pharmacy URL etc., nothing that would raise the red flag, but it doesn’t have any real content either. I guess this one might be from a spammer checking out if he can post a comment. I can even amuse myself thinking it’s from someone real who enjoys reading my blog…

The next one is a bit nasty:

Comment:
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Im sorry to hear that your quitting smoking Burak , if theyres anyone
who deserves lung cancer its you .

My new years resolution is to releace and promote as much copys of ASV
as i can . Poetic justice as far as im concerned now you know what it
feals like to have your work stolen

regards

Commenter name: Raymond
Commenter email: esdrftgyhuji@sedrftg.com
IP address: xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Raymond is from Texas, as it seems by looking at his IP. Obviously he doesn’t know how to spell and he uses a QWERTY keyboard. I’d guess he’s rather young. He ends kindly with his ‘regards’. His email address really isn’t random. You can guess the QWERTY layout even when someone is just pressing random keys wildly to make up a fake address, his address is not random in that sense, he probably keyed the address in neatly one key at a time… He uses a capital for my name and for sentence starts, which I find quite rare for this kind of a comment. Is he really angry or is he working for a cigarette company, I cannot decide. He’s after ‘poetic justice’, hmm, I don’t hear that phrase frequently, maybe he’s a bit older than I first thought… What do you think?

Raymond, I’m sorry if someone stole your work, but your comment is very rude. (And I had my work stolen, cracked, key generator-ed, translated to obscure languages, many times. I assure you I know how it feels).

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Yet Another Flash Blog…

November 5, 2003 burakk

It was cool if you had a blog once. Now, it’s weird if you don’t have one.

It was May 2002 when blogging (at least for the Flash community) really emerged. In fact, I’d say this Wired article marks the start; after that day Blog was a familiar term.

It was on May 4th, 2002 that I registered my account with Blogger. I never did more than a few test posts with Blogger (and never made it public). Time was scarce. And it still is. But once it was weird if you didn’t have an e-mail, now it’s unthinkable. It’s now weird if you don’t have a blog.

So… Welcome to my blog!

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