FYI, the login delays with the DevChat Central application should be fixed now.
Sorry for the hassle.
I am about a day late in posting this, but there are a ton of new resources on Macromedia Central at the Macromedia website. Here is a summary:
DevNet Center
New Applications
Wow! Things have been crazy the past couple of weeks. There have been a ton of announcements coming out of Max. I am too tired right now to list all of them, or point out the ton of new Central related content on the website, but I did want to point that we have released the “Developer Release” of Central today.
What exactly is the Developer Release, and what does it mean? The Developer Release means that Central is ready for developers to start making applications. The API is stable and the SDK is complete. The licenses are final, and you can get all of the license types (including try / buy).
A lot of people have been telling me they have been having problems logging into DevChat lately. I have also noticed this and we finally figured out what the problem was. The server was moved recently, and it looks like they are blocking some FlashCom ports. Because of this, the Flash Player has to loops through trying to find a port that it can connect on (which ends up taking a long time).
Kevin Hoyt has a great summary of Kevin Lynch’s and Josh Ulm Central session titled “Best Practices for Central Application Interface Design”.
You can read the entire overview here.
Congratulations to Eric Dolecki for getting site of the day on Wednesday for the Central application that he put together for the Max conference.
I have been amazed by how many people I have seen using it at the conferences today, and after we updated the news, I must have had ten people come up to me at tell me “It told me there was new news!”.
Congrats Eric. Great job.
Just a quick reminder, we will be having a Central Birds of a feature tonight at the MAX conference, at 6pm, in Room 151 A. It is basically an open discussion / Q and A on any and everything about Central.
See you there.
I just noticed that we have released two new case studies on a couple of Central Applications:
There is some good information on the business decisions made for those applications.
A couple of people have noticed that there is a new version of Central available, but have run into some issues with it.
Well, here are the solutions:
Beta product ids will not work in the final version of Central. The current version of DevChat has a beta product id, which is why it won’t install in the new version.
You can install it with a different product.xml file that works by:
