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Slightly off-topic (especially considering your bad news, Berry), but I heard an interesting piece of advice today, from a talk by Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel: "This my 11th recession. The principle to tackle them has been the same every time. You cannot save your way out of a recession...

@Berry I like the calming sound of that quote, but by definition we are heading for a recession (ie two subsequent quarters of negative growth). The question is what you do with that fact, I suppose. @mrleesimpson I hear what you're saying. I agree that it's become the media story and dinner...

Kind of, it's the de facto standard at the moment for advanced 3D in Flash. But it's a programming framework first and foremost, not really comparable to any 3D renderer or AE. There is a component for the Flash application which gives you basic visual tools, but it's meant to be used to code.

Papervision3D that is.

There is no z-rotation facility built in to Flash, although the very latest CS4 does have something similar. There are paid-for 3rd party applications to do things like that with older Flash versions. Google Flash and 3D, I suggest.

Another thing about credit crunchy times: I heard from another small agency owner that they had their first bounced cheque from a client recently. That might be something to look out for - get a credit checking service!

I think it's too early to tell. I'm having a good year, but we probably all still feed from budgets that were assigned before the summer, so I think that the crunch will properly kick in the second quarter of 2009. There is plenty of doom-mongering in the press, and it is perfectly possible that...

The reason why Android development is not on the list is not surprising, because it's not a Web Dev skill. It would show up in a mobile applications development category, like JavaME, Symbian, FlashLite, Objective C (iPhone) etc. The reason why the iPhone applications skill is on this list is...

The 'transatlantic' pricing is obviously a huge rip-off, but otherwise I don't agree with that. I've bought every version upgrade of my main tool (Flash) since version 2 because there were always new elements that I couldn't do without, as a professional user. Adobe lets you upgrade from 4 (!)...

You can always do a month's free trial. That's what I did - and got hooked ;-)

Thanks for the welcome, Greg. Well, the fun bit depends on whether you enjoy this sort of thing at least a bit, which I have to admit I do. But from running a SME I remember using SAGE for accounting, and compared to that FreeAgent is actually fun! Very intuitive, yes. Again, if you have no...

I haven't tried many others (apart from Excel sheets and SAGE at one point), but I've been using FreeAgent for nearly a year now. I find it fantastically useful, reliable and (dare I say) fun to use. I still get everything checked by my accountant, but it makes the day-to-day stuff a lot easier...