Buraks has released Action Script Viewer 3. The latest version can decompile Macromedia Flash 4, 5 and MX SWF files.

I know some of the people in the community would want all information about tools such as this to be secret. Personally I think its important to know how easy it is for people to steal your code, and how unsafe information in an SWF file really is.

[Via Flazoom]

Macromedia - Flash Communication Technology

With the introduction of the Macromedia MX product family, Macromedia has announced its intention to provide new server solutions for enabling the creation of next-generation communication applications that leverage the Macromedia Flash client. The new communication server technology will unite communication and applications — providing audio, video and data streaming between Macromedia Flash Player 6 clients.

The new technology will allow developers to easily integrate two-way, live and stored audio/video streams into Macromedia Flash MX web applications, enabling the creation of new types of multi-user collaboration applications such as chat, webcasts, and whiteboards in Macromedia Flash.

No word on a release date, the FAQ simply states that we can expect it to be available in 2002. You can however sign up to the Early Notification list

This is what I call playing with toys! :-) Samuel Wan has connected his Lego Mindstroms robot with ColdFusion

I think the high point of the day was when I sent my browser to http://localhost:8500/webrover/test.cfm , and my robot suddenly smacked into the wall on other side of the room. It scared the heck out of my cat! *sniff* The little webrover is all grown up and running around :)

He will be making available code and instructions so that you can do the same fun stuff with your Lego robot, so stay tuned.

Now I would have loved to see an inexpensive robot like this with Wi-fi and camera. That would have made webcams of a whole new kind.