I just found out that a book I worked on Flash Enabled : Flash Design and Development for devices has been released in Korean.
Here is an image of the cover:
Anyways, if you have been waiting to read the book until it came out in Korean, you are in luck. You can find more info here.
One of the things that I am setting up for Macromedia MAX Conference next week is something that we are calling the “Central Developer’s Playground”. This is a chance for developers to get together, hang around, play video games (XBOX and PS2), listen to music, eat pizza, drink beer / coke, work on Central applications, ask questions and meet the Central team.
It will be pretty informal, so even if you are not planning on doing Central development anytime soon, you should still stop by to hang around and chat.
Intel is giving away a Centrino powered table PC at the the Macromedia Max conference. The contest requires that developers answer questions about the Central related sessions at MAX (i.e. you will need to attend the Central sessions to get the answer to the questions).
You can sign up for the contest at the Intel booth at the conference. Here is the info from Intel:
Visit the Intel booth at the Macromedia MAX event and enter a contest to win a tablet PC featuring Intel Centrino(tm) mobile technology. While at the booth, learn from Intel and other leading technology companies about the critical factors involved in developing mobilized software applications, including connectivity, power/performance management, offline data management and deployment across multiple platforms. Prize drawing is open only to the attendees of the 2003 Macromedia MAX event in Salt Lake City, Utah. For complete contest rules and eligibility, please visit the Intel booth.
The Macromedia Max conference starts in a little over a week. We are planning a ton of stuff around Central, so I decided to do a week of “Countdown to Max posts”. Everyday, I will post information about something related to Central at the Max conference.
The first item is of course all of the Central Related sessions:
Of course, there are a ton of other sessions on Flash, Client / server development and Halo that also apply to creating Central applications. You can see a complete list of sessions, broken down by track, here.
The guys (and gals?) over at CentralMX.com have published a new video tutorial. This one shows how to set up the Central development environment for Dreamweaver.
This is their second video tutorial, and is a great resource for quickly getting up to speed on the subjects.
You can view the tutorial here.
Josh Dura and I have put together an image that shows the entire Central API hierarchy. Have fun with it.
A lot of developers have been building their first Central apps. So many, that I haven’t been able to keep track of all of them.
So, if you have built an application within Central, please shoot me an email with the info. I would like send something your way (while supplies last!).
Send your name, link to your app and mailing address to me at mesh@macromedia.com.
Well, I am finally releasing the first public version of FlashCommand. FlashCommand is a command line compiler for Flash MX 2004 Pro.
I am sorry it took so long to release, but I have been super swamped. I also ran into a bug where the installer no longer worked (it errors when trying to automatically set the path environment variable). This bug delayed the release, and I ended up just removing the installer. Hopefully, I will have time soon to track the issue down, and release an updated version with the installer.
