I am trying to put together a comprehensive list of all of the Flash related weblog / news sites so I can link to them from here. If you have a Flash related weblog, list it in the comments, and I will update my site with the links.
I was looking through my referrer logs and notice that Robert Hall has started a Flash weblog. Robert has done some really cool stuff with Flash on devices (Flash bank on Pocket PC, Flash on ATMs), and some text -> speech -> Flash, so it should be interesting to see what he puts up there.
Robert also wrote a chapter about Flash on standalone kiosks and ATMs in Flash Enabled.
I wanted to clarify some information on the Flash 5 Player for Pocket PC.
The player should work with any StrongArm based Pocket PC, such as the Compaq Ipaq, regardless if it is running Pocket PC or Pocket PC 2002.
There is a useful thread on the FlashCoders mailing list on how to optimized CDs for Flash (or any multimedia) playback.
Interesting article on the O’Reilly Devcenter discussing Flash and SVG. The author is trying to overcome some of the misperceptions of Flash in the development world.
If you read through some of the comments, you will see some of these misperceptions come up, especially the “Flash is just an animation tool and can’t be used for applications” argument. This may have been true with Flash 3, and maybe Flash 4, but with Flash MX I can create a very complex, functional UI in about 5 minutes, and focus my development efforts on making my application work.
The Flash 5 Player for Pocket PC has been release. You can download it here.
The player supports all Pocket PC 2002 devices. You can find more information at the Macromedia Flash Player 5 for Pocket PC site, although it hasn’t been updated yet with the new player information.
Update, click here for some updated information on this item.
On a related note, Flash Enabled : Device Design and Development is available now at Amazon, and the official website has gone live.
If you are interested in learning just about everything there is to know about how Object Oriented programming works in Flash MX, check out the first couple of chapter’s of Robin Debreuil’s online book “Building Object-Oriented Applications in Flash 5”.
I think that this is one of the best resources for object oriented programing in Flash MX, along with Dave Yang’s site.
Jarle, from jdb cyberspace, has put up some examples showing how to create simple server side proxies in order to allow you to load the Macromedia XML Resource feed directly into Flash. He has examples in PHP, ASP, JSP, Python and Perl.
You can view the examples here.
