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Christian Cantrell has written three new tutorials about Flash remoting for Macromedia.com The tutorials include Building a Database Query Application with Server-Side ActionScript Building a News Application with ColdFusion Components and XML Building a Mail-Enabled Macromedia Flash Application with CFML [Via Mike Chambers]

Sean Voisen has released the Flash JabberConf. Sean writes: Flash JabberConf (FJC) is an API for Flash MX that I wrote. It should allow anyone familiar with MX and the new event model to quickly create chat and messaging applications in Flash. FJC was written to allow communication with a Jabber server running the Jabber conferencing component (also known as group chat). It is essentially an “MX-erized,” light-weight version of JabberFlash with the necessary extensions that allow it to easily support conferencing and group chat. FJC is available for download

Scott Hamlin has written an interesting article about animating type in Flash: Better Text in Motion Creating smooth animations in Flash can be a challenge. One major factor is the speed and power of the viewer’s computer. Another is the complexity of the animation itself. Text can increase this complexity, but I’ll show you how to make the most — or more accurately, the least — of it! [Via Flazoom]

In a press release today, June 19th – Macromedia writes: To demonstrate the powerful new features in Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia executives Kevin Lynch and Jeremy Allaire will provide the keynote address at Flashforward 2002 New York (www.macromedia.com/go/ffny/). The keynote will showcase new technologies for the Macromedia Flash development community as well as some of the amazing customer examples already being created with Macromedia Flash MX, including Eric Dolecki’s Flashforward event guide for devices at www.ericd.net/guide/. I am willing to bet that they will be releasing information and release dates

This is interesting, Macromedia has put together an online pet store based on Flash MX and ColdFusion MX. And its all documented on all levels. Including preperation, coding and usability. The project has its own “homepage”: Pet Market Blueprint Application Center The details: Designing Application Interfaces with Flash MX Smoothing Web Interaction Testing the Blueprint application for usability And then they got some of the industries best Usability experts to look it over and give their opinion: Chris MacGregor, Flazoom.com Reviews Pet Market Jacob Nielsen Reviews Pet Market Then they

Mike keeps up the good work with another overview of all the great new stuff that you can read at Macromedia.com about Flash MX. Not to mention, a lot of people are putting great effort into trying to make us smarter, those darn fools ;-) Macromedia is obviously digging into their pockets and using their money to make something REALLY useful. Yes, thats right – I am highly sceptical of marketing talk – I am more interested in “the real deal” – good information, and so far one just have

The O’Reilly Network and Richard Koman writes about Coolin Moock and Flash MX in an article called Colin Moock on Flash MX Nothing new, but its a good article to get some insight into what Flash MX can do and lots of good information from a great Flash developer. [Via SwfNews]

You might have heard of ASV (ActionScript Viewer) and Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro. Both are programs that allow you to decompile SWF files and peek into the ActionScript code (and get access to other resources in the SWF file too). Not everyone thinks is such a nice idea that people can peek into your code. Earlier crafty ActionScript gurus have found code that would crash the viewers, now there is a product that is supposed to take care of the “problem”. Anyone else think that this is starting