Jeremy Allaire makes a useful post on dynamically encoding video files to FLV format on the server using Sorenson Squeeze. These could then be streamed out to Flash clients via the Flash Communication Server.
You can read the post here.
Friends of Ed has put up a chapter from their upcoming book on Flash accessibility : Flash Usability Guide.
The chapter was written by Bob Regan who is in charge of accessibility at Macromedia. It is in PDF and can be viewed here.
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There is a new edge newsletter out today, with some interesting Flash MX related articles:
You can view the Flash version of the magazine here.
Stuart Schoneveld (illogicz.com) has put together a couple of examples showing the ToolTip component from the Macromedia Developer Resource Kit (DRK).
You can view them here.
We have released the .NET and Java versions of Flash Remoting. You can read the announcement here.
The Java version works with virtually any Java application server, and the .NET version works of course, with Microsoft .NET servers.
You can download a trial here.
You can find more information on Flash Remoting here.
And just to head of any questions, we have not made any announcements about a version of Flash Remoting for PHP.
Sorry for the lack of updates today. I am taking today and tomorrow off so updates will be sparse.
So what will I be doing in my time off? sleeping, errands, video games (xbox, warcraft 3)
We are trying out something new today. Basically, we have a limited number of 10% off coupon codes for the Macromedia store. This is on a first come, first serve basis, and is an opportunity for us to give something back to to the core of our community.
So, todays code is : SP23CMMRBK
This code is good for the Book / Training section, which among other things, includes the Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit (DRK).
Yes, its time once again for new content at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. This week brings a lot of new Flash MX Content.
One thing to note, is that we have made the Flash Remoting Documentation available under our livedocs system, which is similar to the PHP documentation at php.net.
JD pointed out a couple of new items on Macromedia.com.
The first is a new movie on our main page touting the advantages to upgrading to MX. Really nice integrating of video into a Flash movie. You can view it here.
He also points out that we have released a Rich Internet Application Starter Kit. To be honest, I didn’t know about this, but it looks like it could be pretty useful. From the webpage:
