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LocalConnection is a powerful method for coordinating two Flash movies on the same web page. It must, however, be used with care and careful consideration. The connection is opened using a "connection string" of sorts: just a string name really. Even if you have a very simple connection between two movies, subtle problems can arise. Since the scope of the connection is the user's computer and not the one page they have open, if the user opens multiple web pages and other pages have the same LocalConnection connection string, the connection on at least one of the pages will malfunction.

Everyone who has interviewed for a .NET programming position has had to answer some question about the order of events during an ASP.NET page's life-cycle. Having an answer for an interviewer is not enough. You really need to know the order of events down to the minutae in order to avoid wasting valuable time during development.

The ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool (WSAT) provides a quick and dirty means for setting up security and other configuration properties for your website. In the early beta versions of Visual Studio 2005, there was a WebAdmin.axd virtual resource to access this functionality for your site, but it is no longer available--security reasons, no doubt. 
 

Here's a chart I created that reproduces the chart in this article. If you bought both Gold and BRK-A in January 1998, the comparative gains would look like this:
 

 
However, if you had bought Gold and BRK-A in January 1990, the comparative gains would look like this: