I just posted this week’s podcast

fyi, I am going to try to start releasing the podcasts earlier in the week (around Tuesday or Wednesday).

Update : Fixed issue with podcast enclosure in RSS feed.

This weeks podcast discusses:

• Apollo Information on Labs
• Apollo FAQ
• Discussion with Oliver Goldman, and Ethan Malasky (both engineers on the Apollo team)
• Apollo as a runtime.
• How will the Apollo runtime be distributed?
• Preventing DLL hell in Apollo

Here are the links mentioned in the podcast:

Just a quick update, but as I posted last week I am working on an Apollo FAQ. It is currently up to around 40 questions (!), so it is taking me a little longer than I expected. I should have it posted by tomorrow afternoon or Friday morning.

We have been having some internal discussions (and disagreements) over the past couple of weeks on when was the best time to add an Apollo section to labs.adobe.com, and start populating it with information.

Well, while we were discussing it, Ryan Stewart took matters into his own hands. Leveraging the fact that labs is a wiki, he went ahead and created an Apollo section on labs and began to populate it with some links to articles / information on Apollo.

I just uploaded new versions of the open source ActionScript 3 libraries to labs. The new versions work with the release versions of Flex 2 and Flex Builder 2.

This includes updates to corelib (JSON, etc..), flexunit, and the XMLSyndication (Atom / RSS) libraries.

You can find more information on the libraries, as well as download them from here.

Ted Patrick has posted a TON of slides from a component developer summit held at Adobe a couple of weeks ago. One (of the many) that caught my eye was this presentation by Gary Grossman (one of main engineers who worked on the new AVM in the player):

ActionScript 3 and AVM 2.0 Performance Tuning (pdf)

This goes into some depth on how the AVM works, and some performance tricks (i.e. casting array indexes to INT).

I have been cleaning out a bunch of stuff in my office, and came across a bunch of old Macromedia stuff. Before I parted with it, I decided to take pictures of everything and upload them to flickr.

UPDATE: I moved the images off of Flickr.

These images are from the Flash 10 Year anniversary.

Earlier this week, Robert Scoble wrote up why he thinks that the use of Flash is a bad idea. I thought I would provide my thoughts on that post.

Why don’t I use Windows Media Video for my Web sites?

I have a brand new OS X Mac Book Pro machine. Loaded Safari on it. And visited Scoble’s site to watch an interview with him.

This is what it looked like. Now, if a “normal" person (non geek) hit this site, what would they do? I’ll tell you what they’ll do. They’ll hit back and get out of there. Note the title tag. Failed to open page? I click that little green back button and leave before I get hurt. Thank you very much. Have a nice day.

I just posted this week’s podcast

This weeks podcast discusses:

• Where have I been?
• Flex 2 Launch
• Impact of early access to builds on Labs
• Flex.org
• What did we actually release?
• Blaze / Flash Authoring 9 AS3 Preview Release
• FlexTeam Weblog
• Flex Builder 2 on Mac
• ActionScript 3 OpenSource Libraries Update
• Update on Apollo
• Flex Component Developer Summit
• Flex and Apollo at Masuhup camp
• Where are we with Apollo today
• Apollo Window Modes
• What are we currently working on
• Apollo as a runtime

Here are the links mentioned in the podcast:

I am starting to put together an FAQ for Apollo, and instead of addressing what I think you want to know, why don’t you tell me what you want to know.

So, what do you want to know about Apollo? Post questions in the comments.

Grant Skinner, Colin Moock and Rich Ziade have all written up some of their initial impressions and thoughts on Flex 2 / ActionScript 3.

Each approaches from a slightly different angle, and it is interesting to see what they like and don’t like.

Here are the links:

• Flash Player 9, Flex 2, ActionScript 3.0: A Survey of the New Landscape - Colin Moock
• Flex 2 from a Flash Developer’s Perspective - Grant Skinner
• Arc90 Blog : 10 Reasons We Love Flex - Rich Ziade