Flash JabberConf

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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 […]

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Blogs: Another Macromedian blogger

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Sean Corfield, director of Architecture at Macromedia has joined the Macromedian bloggers with his An Architect’s View. According to Branden Hall “This man is smart – and I mean really smart – he’s the director of architecture at Macromedia! He’s about, oh 2 billion steps out of my league” – which should put him somewhere out in the gallaxy compared to me ;-) Sean has an article up at Macromedia.com about Software design patterns for Macromedia Flash Remoting, which is an interesting article. He also writes interesting stuff on his

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Macromedia applying for Open Source License

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On wednesday the 19th of June Tom Harwood of Macromedia Server Products, CFML Language Development posted a Lisence Approval Request for the “Macromedia Open Source License” to the Open Source Initiative You can follow the discussion/thread at the Opensource.org mailinglist. The reception of the request has been good, although the license in many ways appear as a vanity license, as pointed out in the discussion of the request and by Steve Mallett that picked up the posting to the list. In my opinion this is a good first step. hopefully

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Flash community making fun of Jakob

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Jakob Nielsen has recently become a part of the Flash scene since his company signed a deal with Macromedia to help them make a best practices paper for Flash development. Most recently he wrote a review of Macromedia’s blueprint Flash application “Pet Market” But he is still suffering from the animosity he accumulated after his “Flash 99% bad” article, Keran McKenzie has a list of sites making fun of Jakob, where the funniest one possibly might be a photo-collage of Jakob Nielsen closing the deal with Macromedia. [Via Flazoom via

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Flash and type

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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]

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Feasible Impossibilities speak up

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I am having serious blog envy! Robert Hall has been showcasing speech synthesis hooked to Flash for a while on his Flash site, but now he has put together a nice little application for his regular weblog. You can now hear parts of his weblog entries via Flash. Still miss some in depth information about how he has done it. Would have been nice to get to look into the gut of the sound beast ;-) [Update] Ok, found his presentation of the project at FlashForward 2001 in NYC: Ideas

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Deep linking

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Doc Searls and John Dowdell is two of many that have picked up on the interesting linking policy over at NPR.org What are organizations thinking when they start to tell people to ask for permission before linking? And what are they doing about various search engines, such as Google? Not to mention, what legal options do they have to enforce their prohibition to link to npr.org? [Update] Wired have an article about NPR.org and their deep linking policy as well as the response from the weblog community. [Update II] A

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Upcoming announcements from Macromedia “announced”

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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

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New Pet in a Flash

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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

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