Just a quick reminder that Macromedia is running a developer’s lab during FlashForward. If you have any questions, suggestions or just want to meet some of the people from Macromedia and the Flash team, come down to the lab either today or tomorrow. It is located in the internet lab.
I will be there today from 4 to 5 pm. So if you get a chance, stop by and say hi.
I gave a sneak peak of DevNet Resource Kit Volume 3, which we are just wrapping up. It is really shaping up to be the strongest DRK yet, with:
I showed one of the sample applications included on DRK 3, RSSify. This application creates, edits and managers RSS / XML Feeds, and Macromedia actually uses it internally to publish our new DevNet RSS XML feed.
Well, today is the first day of FlashForward. I haven’t had a chance to get out to the conference yet (I am busy working on some surprises), but I have talked to a few people who are there, and I hear that it is packed, and that people are really excited.
I will be heading out there in a couple of hours, so if you see me, make sure to say hi. In the meantime, if you are attending, make sure to fill out your profile. This is a pretty cool application built in Flash which makes it really easy to find other people with similar skills and interest.
We are running a promotion right now where if you buy Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX or Macromedia Studio MX Plus, you get free shipping. The first 500 people also get a $50 gift certificate from Amazon.
I usually don’t post promotion stuff like this, but the webpage for the site highlights some nice sites made with Macromedia MX products. The sites highlighted are the Volvo XC90, Sony Classical, and the Terminator3 site.
I had forgotten that this page was on-line, but Waldo pointed out today that we have a page on the website which describes some of the content planned for the next DevNet Resource Kit (DRK 3).
You can view the info here.
I can’t give an more specifics on it, but I can say that it is only a sample of the content planned. Of course, FlashForward is going on this week, so there is no telling what new information may come out. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
I will be heading out to San Francisco next week for FlashForward. As usual, it is shaping up to be a great conference, and from what I hear it is already or just about sold out.
I can’t give any specifics (or hints), but the keynote should be very cool. Ill also be doing a session on Flash Remoting, and helping out in the Macromedia Developers Lab.
Of course, as I have in the past, I will also be blogging the conference as much as possible. I may even take my cam corder and take and post some video.
The new ColdFusion MX updater provides the options to disable access to web services from Flash via Flash Remoting. From the release notes:
Access to webservices are disabled by default in updater 3, so if you are calling them from Flash via Flash Remoting, you will need to enabled them.
FlashComponent.com, one of the community component sites is back online, and is asking for users to resubmit their extensions.
So, if you have built an extension, head over to the site and resubmit it.
[via josh dura]
We have released a ton of new Macromedia Flash content, articles and resources at the Macromedia DevNet Center.
Of particular interest, we have released a new sample application. The Flash Slide Show Sample application shows how to integrate Flash within Visual Basic applications. Here is a list of the new articles included with the sample application:
We also have a number of other new articles and resources, including:
