We have posted a new chapter from Colin Moock’s ActionScript for Flash MX : The Definitive Guide book on the DevNet Center.

Chapter 12, Objects and Classes is online. What does it cover?

Chapter 12, “Objects and Classes,” introduces the concept of Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Using all of the ActionScript learned in previous chapters, readers will learn what objects and classes are, terminology related to OOP, how to build custom objects, and finally how to create chains of inheritance between objects.

We have a bunch of new content on the Macromedia DevNet center. This releases theme is .NET and PHP, with almost all of the new articles focusing on those technologies.

You can view the Development Center for ASP.NET here.

You can view the Development Center for PHP here.

Geoff Bowers has posted a recap of Branden Hall’s presentation at the recent MXDU. Branden basically showed the history of Flash from Future Splash to Flash MX.

You can view the recap here.

Question of the day, would you be interested in seeing screen shots of every version of Flash?

What does DevNet Pro include?

View this screenshot to find out.

We just released a FreeHand MX Reader for Flash MX. What does it do? From the download page:

The FreeHand MX Reader for Flash MX allows Flash MX to import files that are stored in FreeHand 8, FreeHand 9, FreeHand 10, and FreeHand MX file formats only.

David Gangwisch (one of the FreeHand engineers) sent me some more information describing what exactly the reader does:

Flash MX doesn’t support “Opening” SWF files, it can only import them into existing FLA documents. It can, on the other hand, open FH files.

Colin Moock has posted some information on how to use a shim movie to load data across domains.

You can read the article here.

Jesse Warden is blogging the MXDU conference.

You can read his posts here.

Thus far he has some posts on the day 1 keynote, and sessions by Scott Mebberson and Ian Chia.

Just a quick reminder that Monday is a holiday in the U.S, and thus Macromedia offices will be closed. Email responses may take a little longer than usual.

We may be doing some upgrades on our server this weekend, and thus there may be some intermittent downtime.

So if you come to the site and things are not working or look weird, don’t worry about it.

The FlashForward Film Festival Finalists (How is that for alliteration?) have been announced. As usual, there are some really cool and cutting edge submissions.

You can view the finalists, as well as vote for the people’s choice award here.

You can find more information on FlashForward 2003 in San Francisco here.