Flash | Retrospective

DevNet has been dead for awhile, but why hasn’t Macromedia/Adobe decided to release the old DevNet Resource Kits (at least the items that were owned by Macromedia) as open-source? If you aren’t going to sell it anymore, don’t bury it.
There was some good sample apps and extensions in there that could either be used as-is […]

Everyone has been blogging about Flex 2 Beta 1 being released, but Adobe has also released the new alpha for Flash Player 8.5 as a separate download. Alpha 3 is available for Windows (ActiveX and plugin) and Mac OSX. The uninstallers are also on the same page.
http://www.macromedia.com/go/labs_flex2_downloads
Of course, if you need to […]

As many have reported, Studio 8 is available for pre-order. [ LINK ]
I went ahead and ordered my copy tonight just to get it out of the way. Now I only have to wait until Septembe for it to ship.
I will be interested to start seeing some of the UI […]

Its no secret anymore than everyone is expecting Macromedia to announced Flash 8 on Monday (8/8). But will they release Studio8 as well? I have seen a few blog posts about it, but ran across this article on CIO website tonight.
http://www.cio.de/news/cio_worldnews/812030/
Macromedia marks release of Studio 8
Macromedia on Monday takes the wraps off Studio […]

First I would like to say a major thanks to Jen deHaan for publishing both the recent tidbit on the MediaPlayback scrubbing event and for the ObjectDumper back awhile ago.
Jen is not the first or the only person to post these gems on Flash and probably not the last. But my […]