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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The camaro.com website has been completely re-designed, taking advantage of blogging technology, and lots of cutting edge features.  The design allows the site to publish stories about the Camaro world, while aggregating information from other blogs as well.  The end result is a site that provides users with a unique perspective on their favorite car, while connecting them with numerous other resources.

The main focus of camaro.com over the past few years has been an online petition asking GM to bring back the Chevy Camaro.  This feature has been retained in the new site, and has an impressive 95,000+ subscribers.  Other features of the new site include:

• Photos of the Camaro concept car, hosted by Flickr
• Ability to embed YouTube and Google Video in the blog posts
• AJAX powered pageless searching and archive results
• Flash powered book search utilizing Amazon Web Services API
• Social tagging that supports popular sites like del.ico.us, and digg
• Technorati tags, automatically generaed with each post
• An open comments system that allows registered users to publish

The blogging engine behind the new design is WordPress, and the site utilizes numerous plugins and modifications that enable its rich combination of features.  Of course the site provides its own RSS feed and others are encouraged to integrate this feed into their own web site or news reader application.