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A few years back, Adobe re-wired Flash's authoring environment, reconstructing its core language, Actionscript. This marked a major change in the way large projects could be programmed and managed, as well as opening up a plethora of high-end visual and programming techniques previously only dreamt of by developers!

In order to better understand the impact of this change and how it marks the overall progression of digital, with its ever increasing flexibility and capability, it’s useful to look back at where Flash and Actionscript has come from.

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Recent posts in SEO forums this week have shown Google is starting to display DoubleClick technology in their AdSense model.

For those that aren’t familiar with news of Google’s purchase of DoubleClick, I’d suggest reading this article. 

And below is a screen shot of the source code from a Youtube page and the ‘ads by Google’ source code:

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I’ve always hated Christmas shopping, mainly because I hate shopping in general. But throw in crowds of people walking into each other with more bags than fingers on each hand, the swift change between freezing streets and super-heated shops, and the vast array of one-month-only Christmas stores/tack-mongers and you’ve got a shopping experience on another level altogether.

Last Saturday I managed to brave Ipswich town centre to get some prezzies and unfortunately I experienced all of the above. Some might say, I’m a ‘scrooge’, and that shopping at Christmas is all part of the festive season, but from now on count me out.

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