May 09, 2002
Wired writes about Flash Blogs

This is nice, Farhad Manjoo at Wired has written an article about the Macromedian Bloggers

Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate

Macromedia calls this "the blog strategy," and some see the company's moves as the start of a trend. These days, it's almost unfashionable for a self-respecting Webophile to not have his own blog; if Macromedia's effort is any indication, soon a tech company that doesn't embrace blogs may seem equally dated.

Branden Hall is quoted in the article, saying:

"Rather than try to make it feel like they're astroturfing" -- the practice of cooking up a grassroots campaign where none exists -- "they say we work for Macromedia and this is stuff that we find interesting," said Branden Hall, a programmer at Fig Leaf Software who has become a fan of the Macromedia blogs.

David Burrows's Flash Blog is linked in the article as "others" ;-)

(And no, I am not gonna wine about not being linked in the article, saves me a lot of bandwidth lol).

Posted by jarle at 01:00 PM | Comments (3)
Certified Flash MX Designer Exam

This is nice to see, Macromedia has the Certified Macromedia Flash MX Designer program running already. I miss the developer certification, but I am sure its just around the corner. Would love to get some more word on the other upcoming certification programs for the rest of the Studio MX products.

[Via Flash Blog]

Posted by jarle at 11:23 AM | Comments (3)
JD comments on the Flash Player buffer overflow

John writes about the buffer overflow in the Flash 6 player revision 23

Nice to see John coming aboard with comments about the buffer overflow.

from what I see both of these are reading buffers. Even if you could pass bad code to the Flash Player this way, it still can't break out of its sandbox

I still think there is lacking information from Macromedia, the technote at Macromedia Security Center is just linking to a Reuters news story and not giving any indepth facts about it. (Which John is commenting as well).

Posted by jarle at 10:48 AM | Comments (0)