May 2002

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 […]

I have to admit, I am not sure exactly which day is the birthday of Macromedia, but this year they celebrate their 10th birthday. Mike Chambers has put together a few links to let you in on the History of Macromedia Flash I’d like to add to the links with an article we published at Flashmagazine.com a good while ago: The Flash History by Rick Waldron

… or how to integrate Flash with any content management system.. Mike Chambers has made a nice tutorial showing how to hook up Flash 6 with dynamic backends. His tutorial shows how to integrate Flash 6 with Radio, a weblog system from Userland, but it applies to almost any system. It is equally easy to integrate Flash 6 with Moveable Type, the weblog system I am using for this blog. In fact, Samuel Wan has already started on a Flash 6 interface for Moveable Type – His implementation takes a

Jon Udell writes about Macromeida MX / Flash remoting. A good read if you are still wondering what all the new features and bells really entails. A Flash-forward look If Macromedia can transform Flash from a multimedia shell into a popular presentation layer for Internet-based business applications, the missing pieces of the Web-services puzzle — identity management; security context; reliable messaging; and real-time, two-way data communication — will come into focus more quickly. [Via Flash Blog]

I think David picked the worst possible week for his vacation, at least in the context of all the MX announcements that has been made from Macromedia the last week. But now he is back, and I am sure he will be up-to-date in no time with his Flash Blog