Check this out. showroom is a free Polish language e-zine focused on Macromedia Studio and Flash. Two editions thus far, and they look like they contain some pretty good articles and content.
You can view both editions here.
Btw, anyone know of any Macromedia focused Polish weblogs? We don’t have any listed at MXNA. If you have one, make sure to submit it here.
I lucked out on my flight to Europe and got booked on Lufthansa. This is really cool because they have high speed internet access on their flight between San Francisco and Frankfurt. In fact, I am posting this from seat 24C somewhere over Greenland.
Anyways, just a reminder that I am doing a mini speaking tour in Europe this week, and will be speaking at Flash Festival in Paris this weekend. If you are in Vaasa, London or Paris, make sure to come out to the meetings.
I will be traveling to Europe next week for a couple of user group meetings and conferences. Ill be giving an update on the latest developments in the Flash world, and maybe even give a sneak peak or two about what is coming down the pike.
Here is the schedule:
I have got some cool stuff to show, so it should be a lot of fun. If you are in any of those cities, make sure to come out to the meetings.
Just a quick fyi. We have created a weblog for the Macromedia XML News Aggregator (MXNA). If you want to keep up with the latest changes, news and developments around MXNA, make sure to check it out.
You can view the weblog here.
One of the new plugins we installed on the new weblog server is the Quickcode plugin for Moveabletype This is a simple plugin that uses bracketed tags to make it easy to mark up posts.
Instead of typing:
<a href="mailto:mesh@macromedia.com">mesh@macromedia.com</a>
I can type:
[email]mesh@macromedia.com[/email]
The syntax is easy to use, which is the main reason I installed it.
Once I began using it, I realized it would be useful to create a number of other tags, so I opened up the plugin file (written in Perl) and hacked around until I got some new tags working. I wanted to post them here in case anyone else found them useful.
As you have probably noticed, my weblog has moved from markme.com to weblogs.macromedia.com.
The new url is:
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/
Make sure to update your urls for the site and the rss feeds.
Christian Cantrell’s weblog has also moved, and eventually all of the weblogs on markme.com will be transitioned over.
The biggest changes are that the site has a new look (although not necessarily good). I tweaked the default templates, so they don’t look so hot, but I am going to try to spiff it up some over the coming weeks.
As I mentioned yesterday, we have released an small update to MXNA (our Macromedia Community News Aggregator).
In addition to a bunch of tweaks and bugs fixes, there are some cool new features, including:
If you have a weblog aggregated by MXNA, then I think the new feed specific report is the coolest new feature. They allow you to view click stats for the last fifty posts made on a per feed basis. This makes it easy to see what types of posts were the most popular, what your average clicks are, and what the current trends are.
We just uploaded a mini release of the Macromedia XML News Aggregator. There are some cool new things in there, but instead of telling you what they are, Christian and I thought it would be fun to have a quick little contest.
So, the first 3 people to post in the comments describing one of the new features / changes to MXNA will win a Flash Timbuktu Messenger bag (these are sweet). Make sure to include a URL pointing to the new feature / change, as well as your email address (so I can contact the winners). Once a feature / change has been posted in the comments it cannot be reused.
