Branden Hall and Christian Cantrell are on the same DC - NYC train that I am. Branden showed me some useful Flash Remoting stuff he figured out.
You can pass a responder object for a remote method as the first argument to the method call. This allows you to pass a separate instance of an object when you are calling the same remote method multiple times. The only caveat is that the responder function must have an onResult method. It will not work if your use functionName_Result. Here is an example:
Everyone seems to be asking about Flash Communication Server pricing. Pricing and version details are discussed in this week’s logged in article.
You can read it here.
There have been a lot of questions about the availability of the Flash Communication Server on Unix. Currently, it is only available for Windows servers, but we will be releasing Unix versions later in the year.
Make sure to send which Unix flavor you prefer to the wish list. This will help us to prioritize the work.
I am off for NYC and FlashForward. I will be posting FlashForward related information in the FlashForward section.
I will be away from email for a couple of hours this afternoon.
It is finally here. You can find more information on the product page, check out the top 10 reasons to buy, read the FAQ, download the trial, talk about it on the forum, buy it, check out resources at the Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center, or at the support center.
I wrote this week’s logged in column, which discusses the different versions of the server and pricing and hosting options.
Btw, we will be showing off the server tonight in NYC. You can find info about the event here.
I just got back from the Macromedia Flash Communication Server party. Lots of people showed up to see information and demos of the Flash Communication Server. The sound was messed up, but people seemed to be excited about the demos.
We showed the Jeremy Allaire Macromedia MX presentation, authoring Flash Communication Apps with the Flash Communication components (not yet available) (imagine building full fledge text and video chat room in about 2 minutes), and a collaborative whiteboard application.
Lots of new Resource at macromedia.com today. Today we premier the Flash Communication Server Application Development center, and thus have tons of resources on using the new server.
Robin Debreuil has written a much needed article on unit testing Flash ActionScript.
You can read the article here.
Flash Forward is this week in New York City. I am heading up there tomorrow, and thus may not post much for a day or so.
I am planning on blogging the conference and report on sessions, premieres, announcements (except some big ones), and anything else going on at the conference. I have created a new section, FlashForward, where I will be posting everything from the conference.
If there is anything in particular that you want to hear about or from, post your requests in the comments section, and i will see what i can do.
We have launched a new development center for Macromedia tools and ASP.NET. The Macromedia Application Development Center for ASP.NET is similar to our Java Development center, and contains article on using Flash and Dreamweaver with ASP.NET.
Watch the center in the future for more ASP.NET and Flash information.
