I was playing around on the newly designed DevNet Center this weekend and came across the Video Tip of the Week Archive. I knew that we had a video tip of the week, but I didn’t realize how extensive it was. The archive has a ton of short video tutorials on topics covering most of our products. There are quite a few on Flash MX including:
You can view a complete list of all of the the Video Tips of the Week here.
We launched our new website site last week, and as I am sure most people in the community know, it generated quite a lot of discussion. Well, we were listening. We took the feedback (from the community, survey, feedback forms, and talking to directly to users), tweaked the site, and have released a new version of the website. The new home page is a hybrid site combining HTML and Flash, has a more straight forward navigation scheme, and loads much quicker now.
Josh and Daniel Dura have released a sneak peak of their super RSS Aggregator app in the making. It is named FlogSpot, and currently has two main features. First, it is a great Flash weblog aggregator, on par with Flog and Full as Goog. Second, and the thing that really sets it apart, is that it is also a forum auto populated from the various RSS feeds. Pretty sweet.
They have hinted at some more features, but it is already pretty useful as is.
I have been meaning to post this for a couple of days, but haven’t had a chance until now. We have released a new center on the DevNet center. The Macromedia.com Topic Center contains articles and resources on the new Macromedia.com website.
Here is a list of the current articles:
You can view the new topic center here.
Sean Corfield has posted some information on the navigation at Macromedia.com and how it uses Local Shared Objects to remember where you last visited.
You can view Sean’s post here.
There is also an article on the DevNet center which discusses some of the design elements of the site, including the navigation. You can view that article here.
Of course, if you don’t want / need to use the advanced / customized navigation, you don’t have to. Just use the navigation bar at the top of the page to find the information that you need (although you will probably have to go through more page refreshes).
DevNet Pro Subscriptions are now available and shipping. What does this mean? It means that you can go sign up for DevNet Pro today, and start downloading a TON of software just a few minutes later.
If you are already sold on DevNet Subscriptions and have just been waiting for it to ship, then you can go directly to the sign up page.
We have released an update to Flash Remoting. Its includes changes and fixes for the Flash Remoting adapter, as well as the Flash Remoting components.
You can view the release notes here.
You can download the update here.
There are quite a few issues fixed, so if you use Flash Remoting, make sure to download updates.
Update : The update for Flash Remoting installed with ColdFusion MX will be included with the next ColdFusion MX updater.
Tony Lopez has asked me if he can borrow my weblog and make a post about the new Macromedia.com site. He’s the Executive Producer of Macromedia, and managed the design, production and user experience teams that worked on the new site. Here’s what he had to say…
It’s been great hearing all of the feedback (good and bad) from the developer community. I’ve been overwhelmed by the huge reaction. I guess it makes sense. Launching Macromedia.com is like making a movie that will primarily be viewed by filmmakers.
Sean Corfield talks about Macromedia.com and the version of the Flash player needed for it.
You can view the post here.
