Hopefully by now, most Flash developers are familiar with the Macromedia Flash Application Development Center at macromedia.com. However, we have a number of other developer centers that contain a lot of Flash related information. Here is a list of all of the current centers:
Keep your eyes on the Designer and Developer Center for new Application Development centers in the coming weeks and months.
Phil Chung has updated his Flash RSS viewer. Among other features, you can now save and filter your favorite feeds, as well as add any .91 or .92 RSS feed .
Phil also mentions a lot of people that he got help from. A great example of the Flash Community working together to do some really cool stuff.
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Another interesting read on the Macromedia weblogs, and corporate blogging in general. This one focuses on the importance of trustworthiness in marketing on the Internet.
One quick correction to the article, the weblogs were an initiative of the community managers (mostly JD’s idea); we were not asked by Macromedia to create them. Although that may seem like a subtle correction, I wanted to make it clear that we were / are not required to maintain the weblogs.
Read about it here.
Eric Dolecki has released an updated version of his super sweet FlashForward 2002 event guide.
There are a ton of features in this including all of the conference info, local maps and information, and the ability to rate sessions.
Eric also gives thanks to a lot of Flash developers who helped him out. Another great example of the Flash community putting their heads together and creating some kick ass applications.
We have a new security bulletin up that covers the Flash / Javascript cross browser issue from last week.
Macromedia Flash Player Cross Server Scripting Security Issue
It took us a little longer than expected to get the document out; these issues can be pretty complex to document.
There is a new technote today that shows how to use the new FlashVars HTML tag / attribute to pass large amounts of data from HTML to the Flash Player.
You can view the technote here.
With all of the talk about Flash Remoting and ColdFusion MX lately, some people might be worried that we have forgotten about PHP. Well, we haven’t. Check out this article on the Macromedia Flash Application Developer Center written by Helen Triolo on Integrating Macromedia Flash MX with PHP.
If you want information on Flash Remoting and PHP, look here and here.
I was putting together my speaker notes for my Flash Forward session on Flash Remoting, and I needed to distribute them in a format that would maintain the formatting and images. I normally would use Word or html to do this, but HTML requires multiple files and renders differently depending on the browser, and I don’t like to embed images within Word. I decided that PDF would be perfect for this, but I really had no experience with creating PDFs.
Branden Hall discusses a Flash / JavaScript vulnerability that Eye on Security reported yesterday.
We should have some additional information on this later today on the Macromedia Security Zone.
