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January 20th, 2004

Actionscript 2.0 Dictionary

We all know that the Manual of Macromedia Flash is becoming thinner release after release. If you want a good reference for Actionscript 2.0 then I, the book, Actionscript 2.0 Dictionary is one of the good one you should have. I am afraid there is no Indian Edition yet, if you want to wait then I think, the usual Flash MX 2004 Actionscript Bible should come out anytime. Also Colin Moock’s book should definitely come out in Indian Edition. In the meantime, if you can, have that Actionscript 2.0 Dictionary Book in your collection.
Some of the worth mentioning chapters are; Converting from Actionscript to Actioncript 2.0, The Power of Style : Writing Clean Code, Understanding Object-Oriented Programming in Macromedia Flash MX 2004, Actionscript Design Patterns for Rich Internet Application Development, Creating Classes with Actionscript 2.0, Writing Scripts for Earlier Version of Flash Player and Object-Oriented Programming with Actionscript 1 besides the usual documents that contains all about Actionscript 2.0.
It was nice finishing up reading the 1000+ pages book, I did jumped coupla a topics.
I will start reading Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for Rich Internet Applications by Phillip Kerman in the meantime, I will see if I can write something after finishing the book.

Brajeshwar | 2 comments

January 14th, 2004

Delhi HC raps firm over spam mail

In perhaps the first judicial order in India to curb unsolicited e-mails, the Delhi high court has restrained a city-based organisation and its proprietor from indulging in this activity to jam the VSNL Internet server.

“The McCoy Infosystems Pvt Ltd and its proprietors and agent are restrained from causing transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail to any user of the services of the VSNL,” Justice R C Chopra said in an interim order.

Read the full story, also see the previous entry on Anti-Spam law in effect. Is India coming to age with the information age more realistically.

Brajeshwar | No comments

January 10th, 2004

Anti-Spam law in effect

As of January 1, 2004, Anti-SPAM laws went into effect in the United States. India too have a body, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, to combat spam at the moment though nothing legal is announced or any bills passed.

The one in the United States :
The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (”CAN-SPAM”) Act took effect on January 1, 2004, and summary highlights include :

1. Preempts existing state anti-spam laws (like the California law recently passed in Sept. ‘03).
2. Prohibits the use of materially false or deceptive subject lines and headers in messages, forbids senders of commercial e-mail from disguising themselves, and bans harvesting e-mail addresses.
3. Requires affirmative consent for sending e-mails to recipients - where the recipient expressly consented to receive the message, either in response to a clear and conspicuous request for consent or at the recipient’s own initiative.
Continued

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January 6th, 2004

Usability who cares

It took me more than 20 minutes to figure out where to do what and search for what on the Indian Railway online booking website. Come on, when will they and many others come up and think about consistency, a professional approach to a utility site like the Indian Railway reservation site. Well, “Usability”, then there was none, “consistency”, where. This is driving me crazy, who are these people and when will they ever learn. And 70% of the time most of their services are not available and I was advised to search later. Damn, I have no time for later, I want it now and on the spot. This kinda things sucks, please people learn, please learn to do things in a more professional way.

Brajeshwar | 3 comments