Few can take issue with the advantages such a system could offer, but even fewer can realistically expect that this initiative will succeed where previous ones have not. The daunting challenges were brought into sharp focus on a recent visit to a comparable Federal system.

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If digital image manipulation is like painting, then this book by Todd Yard is like listening to a painter describe a desired artistic effect, using Actionscript as a set of brushes, the classes as a palette, and Flash as the canvas.
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Odd that hardware’s exponential productivity gains are consumed by glacial growth in software development productivity. The former lends itself to automation, while the latter to craft that has little incentive to improve.

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