Volume 2 of the Macromedia Developer Resource Kit is available today. This volume contains Flash, Flash Remoting, ColdFusion, Fireworks and Dreamweaver content.

The Flash content includes:

Flash UI Component Set 4, which includes the following components:

• Rich Text Editor
• Smart Combo Box
• Advanced Calendar
• Color Picker
• Simple Menu
• MyPhoto Rich Internet Application : Sample Application
• A ton of chapters from some of the newest and most popular books on creating Flash content, and Rich Internet applications. (I will put up a list of books / chapters shortly).
• August to October Designer and Developer Center Archive.

Of course, Volume 1 is still available.

I just noticed this article over at maccentral, which states that a new version of Sorenson Squeeze with support for mpeg-4 will be released soon.

You can read the entire article here.

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Brian Lesser just sent me an email with info about the Flash Communication Server development page for Ryerson University. There are some very good articles on developing with the Flash Communication Server, including:

• Using a proxied shared object so that room instances can update information in a separate lobby instance.
• Lobby and Chat Rooms Test Application
• Fixing up some code examples.
• Are function literals more expensive than function declarations?
• Recoding and playing back remote method calls in NetStreams.
• Using the server-side stream object for fine-grained access control to streams.

You can check it out here.

Flash Distracted has moved to a new server, and has had a facelift. They have also posted some pretty cool screen shots of a Flash Communication Server based chat application.

You can visit the site here.

Peter Hall made a useful post describing his Flash development process.

You can read his post here.

Phillip Torrone (of FlashEnabled fame, book | website) has posted a couple of pictures and a video of using a virtual reality glove with Flash.

You can view the content here.

Concerned about Privacy and Security issues with the current Flash Player.

See this post for links to information.

DevMX has posted a fairly comprehensive tutorial on using the DataGrid component included with the Developer Resource Kit. It actually describes how to build a complete application using Flash, the DataGrid component and ColdFusion MX.

You can read the entire article here.

We have posted information on the next version of Director, Director MX. Among other things the new version sports the MX interface, as well as support for Flash 6 movies. (Thus moving between Flash and Director, is much, much easier now).

It is a great solution if your project is just out of Flash’s reach.

You can find more info here.

Chris Mac Gregor of Flazoom has written a pretty extensive article on Flash usability. As Chris describes it:

It serves as a compliment to the original Wal-Mart article and offers my latest thoughts on one of the most pressing questions that we need to ask ourselves about using Flash; when is it best for the user?

You can read the entire article here.