As a Flash Developer, I rarely get to build whole web sites. When I do, I usually turn to Joomla and then go find a graphic artist to tell me what horrible mistakes I have made regarding aesthetics. But I already have a good feel for the teams “brand”, and had some good input from the major stakeholders regarding the appearance and functionality. So I took as stab at the graphic design myself, and managed to make it not suck.

This Blackjack simulation allows players to quickly see how various gambling strategies wok against hours and hours of Blackjack play.  Built in Flash, webmasters can easily embed the game into their web site content by using the cpy and paste feature on the webmaster code page.  Avid casino game fans will enjoy the free game, while analyzing the results of wagering systems and betting methods.  Without counting cards, these "countless methods" can be used without any complicated mathematics or memorization.  Systems like Martingale, d’Alembert, and various progressive series betting styles are covered.  Visit the site at www.countlessmethods.com or go straight to the webmaster embed code.

Very cool Ajax implementation for programming reference to popular Web dev languages:

http://www.gotapi.com/

Since I recently became a huge fan of Wordpress, I have turned two sites into full featured weblogs. My enthusiasm for blogging is almost as strong as my interest in Flash development, so naturally I am trying to use both of these together.

As Microsoft gradually and quietly rolls-out the “Eolas” update, Flash developers are finding that users will be required to click on the SWF once to activate it, before they can interact with the content. This seems insane, but stems from a recent lawsuit between Eolas and Microsoft, hence it is commonly referred to as the Eolas udpate to IE.

So in addition to finding a way to easily add Flash content to Wordpress posts, I also want to use my favorite Eolas work-around, FlashObject. Having never authored my own WordPress plugin, I chose to hack my Wordpress install rather than produce a nice neat solution that could be easily distributed (sorry). But this post is intended to explain what I did, inspire others to clean it up, and hopefully result in a Wordpress plugin from somebody more qualified than me.
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