We announced today that the developer version of CFMX J2EE Developer edition is now available for Mac OS X. What does this mean? It means that you can install JRun 4 on OS X and run CFMX on top of that, and do all of your ColdFusion and Flash Remoting development on OS X.

Christian Cantrell wrote a logged in article with some info on the announcement and has posted some info and links on here weblog.

If you are a designer with experience working with HTML / CSS and are interested in some quick contract work, send an email to me. I am considering moving my weblog to MovableType, but can’t design worth anything.

You can email me at : mesh@macromedia.com

I just noticed that we are running a promotion on the DRK. If you buy DRK 2, then you get DRK 1 for half price.

You can find more info here.

Christian Cantrell, the new Server Community Manager for Macromedia has just launched his weblog.

You can view it here.

The weblog system is a temporary one that he put together (using CFMX) over the past couple of days (although, I think it is pretty impressive). We are working on a more permanent, long term solution.

The Day 1 and Day 2 Keynotes from Macromedia DevCon 2002 in Orlando, Florida are now online. You can view them here.

The video is done using Flash and the Flash Communication Server.

Apparently, this has been available for a little while, but I just noticed it.
[via FlaZoom]

I just noticed that Volwswagen has launched a new section of their site that has information on their new car models. Of particular interest, is the Touarage mini site, which is done using Flash Player 6.

You can view the site here.

I have to admit, I am a Volkswagen junky, having had a total of 5 over my driving career (diesel rabbit (first car, slow and loud), vw fox (zippy, door handles fell off), vw jetta (backed into parking garage pylon), vw new beetle (hilary clinton rode in it), vw passat wagon (i’m getting old!)).

I am planning on holding another “Find Cartoon Mesh” DRK contest similar to the run i ran last week. However, this time, Cartoon Mesh (or should it be mini-mesh) will be hidden on my blog or one of the other Flash related weblogs.

So, if you run a weblog and want to participate in the contest, just send me an email directly, or post your link in the comments section. I’ll get all of the links together, and then start the contest.

FigLeaf has released the first version of its WysiDraw Component. This is a pretty impressive whiteboard component (by far the best that I have seen), and is available for purchase.

You can view a demo here.

You can find more information on the component here.

I have been thinking of having a community chat, using the chat found here. Are their any topics you would like to discuss? Is there anyone from Macromedia you would like to talk to?

Post your responses in the comments section, and I’ll see what I can arrange.

Congratulations to Deng Jie from China. He was the first to find cartoon Mike and win a copy of DRK Volume 2.

I’ll have some more contests like this in the future, maybe one where you have to find cartoon mike across a number of Flash weblogs.

If you have any ideas for contests, post them in the comments section.