July 2002

New tutorial from Macromedia: Using the Google web service in Macromedia Flash MX. A nice tutorial of how you can implement Google search with Flash MX and ColdFusion MX. There are several things that bug me though. First, why is it that Macromedia is only able to provide the tutorial as a PDF file? I can’t see any good reason why the tutorial couldn’t have been delivered online by HTML with the PDF download optional. And, why is it that the files are distributed as “windows source files”, I get […]

Den Ivanov of Shockteam.com has released a Video Greetings service based on Flash MX and Flash Communication Server. I am sure we will see a lot more of these kind of services popping up. Check out the cool card I got from Jensa of Flashmagazine.com today, it shows how you end up looking when working from home. (Lets not talk about me looking even worse, at the office) I hope Macromedia has made sure to make good agreements for kickbacks from web-cam producers, because I can see how the easier

Greg Burch has a great tip when developing Flash Remoting apps: Debug Flash Remoting outside the IDE (yet in it at the same time) I build smaller remoting components that hook into a very large system. And it is nearly impossible to get that whole system running and kept up to date to test my small pieces. So I noticed that as long as I leave NetDebug.as included in my little pieces that if I have the IDE open and the NetConnection Debugger panel open it will catch Flash remoting

What I like with Mario’s Quasimondo blog and his projects, is that he lets us follow his process while he is developing his Flash apps. Now he has gotten even closer to finishing the Amazon Explorer in his part 4. Its fun to see parts of his other Flash projects implemented with the Amazon Explorer, like his “Flash Connection” app. I wouldn’t be surprised if he makes available the source code for the Amazon explorer too, as soon as he is ready with it.

In case you haven’t noticed. The cool stuff to thinker with right now is the Flash Communication Server. And there is a lot of stuff going on. A couple of new forums for Flash Communication Server: Flash Communication Server Mail List (run by Branden Hall) Flash MX Backend Communications Web Forum at Ultrashock And Mike Chambers is planning some cool testing of cool stuff (Flash Communication Server) on his cool blog tomorrow. He needs your help, and its going to be… neat ;-) [Mike Chambers]

Nice to see the Flash 6 player taking off in the latest Media Metrix viewability audit. More than 30% coverage in all of the regions. [Via John Dowdell]

This is probably the coolest Flash site I have seen in a looooooooooong while. (That is not saying little, with all the cool sites around right now) Who’s We Design Studios has made a killer 3D Flash site. The only problem I see with the site is that at times is incredibly heavy (it sometimes loads like a snail on my DSL line) [Via Eric Dolecki]