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actually break anything and everything you create, they are
making your work virtually unbreakablewhilealsomakingsureit
doesn
t get kicked back from the hosting company or sites on
which it will run. You personally benefit from this process as well,
because in the future, you will remember what broke, how it
broke, and what you did to fix it. With this information, you
become better and better as a Flash developer and/or designer
because you have the practice that they say makes perfect and
you have made the mistakes from which you can learn. So while
doingyourabsolutebesttoavoidcreatingbugs,welcomethose
that are reported to you as new opportunities to advance your
knowledge even if only a little.
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You
re Still Not Alone
I also have a piece of information that may help you sleep a little
easier at night: Not all bugs will rest on your shoulders alone. For
example, there may be issues that come up that involve changing
something in the original layout of the work. When these issues arise,
be sure to get the creative talent involved with the change. It is, after
all, their design you
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t be altered
without the knowledge of the original creator of the work. Another
example might be if there is someone else working on the database
from which you are pulling information for a microsite. If something
needs to be changed that involves the code that person wrote, they
obviously need to be informed and involved in the change. Speaking
of changes, what happens when you make a change and you later
find out that you need to undo that change? Well, hopefully you
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ll be altering and it probably shouldn
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ve
got some kind of version control system in place.
Version Control
Have you ever realized that you hadn
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t saved in quite a while just
as the program you
re working in was crashing? Have you ever
worked on a file for several days or even weeks? Have you ever
had one of those files get corrupted or accidentally deleted? How
about a coworker? Have you ever opened a file to find that a cow-
orker had changed almost everything in the file and saved it before
realizing they had the wrong file open? How about you? Have you
ever accidentally messed up any files in any way? Were you able to
get your files back and roll them back to the condition they were
in when they worked oh so well? If you answered no to that last
question and yes to any of the others, then you, my friend, need to
get some sort of version control in place and you need to get it in
place as soon as possible. Once you have it in place, make sure
that your entire team is using it as well.
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