Hey CoolAid! -- Oh Yeeeeeeah!
August 7, 2000
Hey CoolAid! -- Oh Yeeeeeeah!
This is like, totally kewl.
Now that I am back in the quiet comfort of my luxury hotel room, collecting
my thoughts, I am just realizing how wonderful this is...
The ShockFusion guys unveiled an app called Alternator Auditor designed
to solve the ancient mystery of tracking visitors inside a .swf movie.
Nuts-n-bolts details are sketchy, but here's what I did learn for sure:
- It is a server application written in C++
- The Flash movie calls the app to initiate a trackable event (i.e.
tracking-worthy events like clicking a button include a LoadVariables
action along with its normal function to generate a log file entry).
- The end benefit is log file entries for the user actions you choose to
track, (e.g. your accesslog file on your Apache server).
- Fusion guys describe it as "Server Agnostic" - (i.e. it will
work with anything).
- (Personal Inference) - you should get this thing N-O-W and start using
it tomorrow as leverage to convince clients that Flash is a grown-up
frontend solution to whatever they are trying to do. Do it now!
All hail ShockFusion. For my money, they are the avant-garde of what Flash
is all about.
Seriously, now. This is something it will be hard for future generations of
Flashers to understand: during a time when most Flash developers are
scurrying about comparing spinning 3D logos - bringing about the
much-deserved scorn that is heaped on the Flash community - SF is developing
a major link in the Flash chain. This is the kind of work that will
elevate Flash into being a viable frontend solution to big web design jobs.
3D - Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest
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