October 2002

You are probably all aware of Mike Chambers blogging from the Macromedia DevCon, as well as all the other blogs blogging from the conference Its no big surprise that this is heavily focused on technology, especially with the Macromedian’s using the new blogging tool of the season: video blogging. But even with all the cool technology, I have to admit that what I find most interesting to read out of all the blogging so far is John Dowdell’s writings from his lobby and poolside conversations. Which just clarifies what I […]

A lot of the focus this year at the Macromedia DevCon seems to be about Flash, and that is very cool. What is even cooler is that Mike Chambers and the rest of the Macromedians have taken the blogging to the next level (much thanks to work done by Jeremy Allaire and others), and are offering video blogs together with the regular blogs. Check out Mike’s DevCon blog which shows off some of the cool things you can do with Flash today.

Another cool project signed Mike Chambers is the ActionScript Standard Library (ASL), a new open source project opened at Sourceforge The project homepage says: The ActionScript Standard Library is a collection of ActionScript classes and libraries that aims to create and provide a standard library of functionality to ActionScript. If you want to join the development team, you can send an email to one of the admins. There is also a developers’ mailinglist which you can subscribe to. Nice to see there is a strong core developer group already, with

Norway is one of the few places around the world were we are lacking a real community for Flash developers. There has been some talk between various induviduals for some years now, but nothing has come out of it, people are still working on their own and without any networking. LETS CHANGE THAT! If you are a norwegian Flash developer or designer, then let me know. I want to get in contact with as many up and going Flash developers/designers as possible so that we all can start helping eachother

A very cool project fronted by Mike Chambers and Greg Burch is the Flash Communication Framework, its opened as a project on Sourceforge (one of the main tools for Open Source developers), but is still in alpha. I am really looking forward to seeing this project get into the beta stages, and opened up so that others can easily deliver code to the project. The Communication Framework is, to quote their own information: a client / server communication framework that runs within the Macromedia Flash Communication Server. Its aim is

The latest survey shows 60% penetration in Europe (and 53% in the US). And not only that, its now starting to become one of the major (if not THE major) platform for multimedia delivery. As Jeremy Allaire points out, the pentration of Windows media is 63%, so Flash is already biting its tail.

A lot of things happening with the new Flash 6 player, amongs the good news is that the next version of the Flash 6 player will be available for Linux. To quote Mike Chambers: This is a very big release, with quite a few bug fixes, new features (wider WMODE support, custom request headers, etc…) and performance optimizations. Nice also to see better support for the Mozilla browser. Flashmagazine.com writes: Windowless mode is now supported on Netscape (Win) and OSX browsers. This primarliy is used for those highly annoying adverts