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Congratulations Macromedia, with a new site. I like the design, but that is about all the good things I can say about the site. I guess it is true that a picture is worth more than a thousand words. In this case its worth more than any words, because without Flash – using Opera – this is what I get: I guess Macromedia isn’t all too interested in trying to push Flash on me either, not even to allow me to view their site.. Branden has some comments about the

Branden has a cool rant on his blog “How did I get here? (What Have I done?)“, its a short story about how his life has changed through the Flash community. Its a real sunshine story, he got fame, wife and riches through his work with Flash ;-) You can read more about Branden at Flashmagazine.com. Jensa did an interview with Branden at the FlashForward 2000 NYC conference entitled “Flash changed my life” which goes into more detail than Branden’s post :-) There is also a Flash/audio interview up at

FlashBang is probably going to become one of the popular extensions to Dreamweaver MX, it allows for adding navigation elements (menus, buttons, pause/play controls etc). to web pages, but it could also become a tool to hide from search engines. An effect I doubt the creators either thought of or intended and I know a lot of its users will be equally ignorant to the problems and invisibility it will bring upon them. Now, Dreamweaver MX already has the evil of Flash menus and text implemented, and allows for generation

Nice to see examples of use of AMF-PHP together with Flash remoting applications: Flash Remoting with PHP and the DesDev Resource Kit 2 For the Flash .fla file, I only had to modify 3 lines of the ActionScript, specifically the gateway URL and the service connections, so that they reflected the location of my AMF PHP based gateway. That was it for the .FLA. The real meat of the work involved creating a PHP class that replicated the functionality of the ColdFusion Component

This is something I discussed with Jeremy Allaire and possibly also Mike Chambers two years ago – At FlashForward in NYC 2001. The PHP documentation has been the prime example of good documentation and function reference on the web for a long time, and in my interview with Jeremy in 2001 I brought it up, and asked whether Macromedia would make documentation of Flash available in the same manner. Now Mike is asking the question “Would you be interested in a PHP like documentation system for ActionScript? What features would

One of the coolest Flash blogs disappeared because of lack of feedback a while back – and is back now: valyard|ru Lets try to keep Valyard inspired, the work he does is so good for showing the united creativity of the Flash community – we can’t afford to loose him again :-)

Jason Key (Flash Distracted) has written about “Flash Resources in Flux“, good someone is taking the time to make up status for the Flash resources right now. Better yet, take the time to tell Jason (or me) which sites you think are alive and working resources for Flash developers and designers right now. Come on, give us some feedback! ;-)

Congratulations is in order for my good friend Jensa on his first finished book project! It should be in stores soon, and is already available on some norwegian online book stores. The bad news for most of the people of the world is that the book is in Norwegian – a language only 0,09% of the world population actually uses from day to day. The book is about the concepts of Flash MX. The title “Forstå Flash MX – Fra topp til bunn”, or “Understand Flash, from top to bottom”.

There has been quite a lot of “deaths” in the Flash resources the last year. Its especially noticeable for me, since I edit for some humanly indexed catalogs of internet sites. One of the flash sites and discussion forums that disappeared in 2002 was were-here.com – a domain that is about to expire, and I can only wonder who will snap it up. Other causalities are “zombies”, that is – sites there are still around in a way, but are only corpses of the sites they used to be, abandoned