August 2002

More content at Macromedia DesDev

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Its impressive to see Macromedia keep churning out great Flash development and design articles. Mike, as usual, has the list of new content at Macromedia. I’ll let you take the trip to Mike to check out the complete list. What I immediately think are the two most interesting new articles are the new sample application – Blackboard Group Management, and John’s article about how not to get help (and how to get help, for that matter)

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Interesting discussion about Flash blogs

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Mike Chambers followed up a posting on SwfNews about professional bloggers. While the though about people blogging as a profession is interesting, the discussion that it spawned on Mike Chambers weblog is even more interesting to me. Personally I think Macromedia and other companies will be better of letting the people closes to the topic that is to be discussed handle the writing, rather than hiring professional writers. To me that is what blogging is all about, writing about what you know best and work with (at least for the

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Flash Player Bug Releases .. good or bad?

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Jason Key (Flash Distracted) has written a nice entry in his blog about Flash Player Bug Releases .. good or bad? I agree its nice to see Macromedia release new bug-fix versions of the player often. But it also seems to me like they were in too much of a hurry (this time around too). Breaking functionality is never a good thing. The .47 version of the Flash 6 player has broken several features from the previous Flash 6 players. I understand some of them, such as the redirect function

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Flog Flash

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This is a cool RSS reader: flog – the last 72 hours in flash development As it says, it displays the postings (in chronological order) of the various Flash blogs. And as you can see, I am messing up the feed by all my various other none-Flash related postings. There is no information up on the site about who made “Flog” yet, but I am pretty sure it is David Humphreys that is behind the cool presentation of the Flash blogs. :-)

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Learn some Engrish

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Engrish.com has many good examples of the asian Engrish. To quote the site: It’s hard to believe the Engrish masquerading as real English over in Japan. It can be seen on signs, people’s jackets, t-shirts and shopping bags, in menus and on TV. But nowhere is it more prevalent than on the various consumer products found in convenience stores and supermarkets. [Via Terje blog]

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Geeks behind the scene of Lord Of The Rings

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Just discovered Bjørn Hansen’s blogging from OSCON, the Friday 26th of July notes are really interesting: Open Source in VFX, its a short excerpt of the session held by Milton Ngan, the IT Manager for Peter Jackson’s Weta Graphics. I always liked the flashy machines from SGI (Although they have been falling behind for a long while now, IMHO), but its nice to see Linux taking over as the primary platform for the movie industry.

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Missing in action: Flash player 6 for Linux

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With the impressive work being put into making the Flash 6 player work better on Windows and Mac, I am still baffled by the fact that there is still no Flash 6 player for Linux. Granted, the desktop market isn’t huge on Linux (although its growing, faster now thanks to Lindows and cheap Linux powered PCs) – but Linux is the chosen system for many embedded systems. I would have thought Macromedia would want to make Flash 6 player available for those as fast as possible. Would anyone be willing

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