On Friday, we announced a new product line, the Developer Resource Kit. It contains components, extensions, articles, samples applications and other resources (including a complete archive of the Designer and Developer Center).
Some of the new Flash MX content includes:
There are also some more articles, as well as Dreamweaver MX and ColdFusion MX content.
We have a lot of new content at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center today.
This releases theme is security, and we are debuting the new:
Security Development Center
Here is the list of articles that should be of interest to Flash developers:
We also now have links to all of the Macromedia weblogs from the Desdev center (bottom left).
I think I have posted this before, but there have been some requests for it lately, so here it is again:
Waldo Smeets created a Dreamweaver MX panel that loads the Flash MX Reference panel into Dreamweaver. This is super useful if you are using Dreamweaver MX to edit external ActionScript files (which I have been doing more and more).
You can find more info and download it here.
I just noticed a new Finnish Flash Community site:
To be honest, I can’t read most of the content on there, but there is a lot, and it appears to be updated often.
Btw, if you know of any other useful Flash Community sites not in English, then post them in comments section.
Btw2, we have a lot of localized content on the Designer and Developer Center. Just choose your languages at the top of the page, under the menu.
ServerWatch.com has an interesting article about the Flash Communication Server. From the article:
Naturally, Macromedia is hyping FlashCom’s “possible uses,” but we’ll list a few here because they help explain what this server is about and highlight something important about this product - its potential fecundity for new and unusual combinations of services.
You can read the article here.
PNut posted that JAWS 4.5, one of the most popular screen readers, has added support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), which in turn means it now has support for Flash Player 6 content.
Window-Eyes the other major Windows screen reader also has support for Flash Player 6 content.
You can find more information on Macromedia Flash MX and accessibility at the:
(btw, I still have the day off, but i wanted to sneak this post in).
FYI : I have today and Monday off, so there may not be many posts for a a couple of days (of course I am posting today, so who knows).
If you send me an email it might take me a little while to get back to you.
DevX has a pretty good article up introducing Flash to traditional developers. It also has some useful strategies streamlining and easing development.
Definitely worth a read.
There have been a lot of questions lately, about the availability of the Flash Player 6 for Linux. Well, as we have stated before, we are currently working on it.
As we have been trying to do with all of our Flash Player releases, we are planning on having a public beta for the player. However before that, we will have a smaller, private beta. So, if you are interested in testing out the Flash Player 6 for Linux, send the following info:
