Mesh on MX

New Flash MX Content at Macromedia.com

Lots of new Flash MX content and resources today at the Macromedia Designer and Developers Center:

Character Animation with Macromedia Flash MX and Toon Boom Studio

Creating Business Presentations in Macromedia Flash MX

Advanced Drawing Methods in Macromedia Flash MX

Logged-In : The Macromedia Anti-Piracy Program

JD's Forum : What's the Fastest Way to Increase your Design Ability

Tip of the Week : Squeeze your Video for Macromedia Flash MX

Medeco's Cam Lock Selector: Small Company Sells Rich Internet Application

Using Macromedia Flash Remoting MX with Macromedia ColdFusion MX

Macromedia Flash Featured Community Site : FlashKit.com

Make sure to check out the Advanced Drawing Methods article written...
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Flash and Unicode Resources

OK. Things are a little slow today, so I thought I would put together a list of all of the Flash and Unicode resources I could find. Here is what I came up with:

Macromedia Flash and Unicode Text

Macromedia Flash : Unicode in Macromedia Flash MX

Unicode Standard and Macromedia Flash

Macromedia Flash : Working with Multiple Languages

International Application : Engine Configurator

Using Macromedia Flash MX as a multilingual authoring tool

Unicode info at FlashBlog.net

FlashKit : Getting Unicode into Flash MX

If you know of any resources, articles or tutorials that I missed, please post them in the comments.

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New Flash MX / Flash Remoting Case Study

We have a new Macromedia Flash showcase / case study online today. This one discusses the Blackboard user management system.

There are actually quite a few tutorials / articles on this application on the Designer and Developer center:

Before and After : From HTML to Macromedia Flash

Group Management Rich User Interface Implementation

Designing Java Applications for Flash Remoting

Blackboard Building Blocks : Real world Flash Remoting Implementation

Lessons Learned : A Behind the Scenes Development Story

You can find more info here, here and here.

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New Flash MX Content at Macromedia.com

Yes, its time once again for new content at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. This week brings a lot of new Flash MX Content.

Creating your First Flash Communication Server Application : Giacomo Guilizzoni

Creating a Macromedia Flash Component : Jonathan Kaye

How to create Help files for Custom Components : Gunnay, Williams

Developer Resource Kit Preview : Using The Stock Services Library : Mike Chambers

Using Macromedia Flash for the Pocket PC to dial the Pocket PC Phone Edition : Phillip Torrone

Flash Remoting Live Docs

Using Macromedia Flash for Multilingual Authoring

Tip of the Week : Connecting your Macromedia Flash MX...
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Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center

Lots of new Resource at macromedia.com today. Today we premier the Flash Communication Server Application Development center, and thus have tons of resources on using the new server.

Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center

Streaming Video into Macromedia Flash

Use Cases for Media, Messaging and Collaboration

Flash Communication Server Security Overview

Flash Communication Server Security Checklist

Using Flash Communication Server MX with Flash Remoting

Flash Communication Server Coding Best Practices

Macromedia Flash Communication and Audio

Developing scalable Macromedia Flash Communication Server Applications

Logged In : Which edition of Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX do I need?

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New Mobile Development Center at Macromedia.com

This week we are premiering the Mobile Development Center at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. That means there is tons of new content and resources at macromedia.com.

Mobile Development Center

Designer and Developer Tips Library

Flash Extreme : The Pitter Patter of little Patterns : Branden Hall

JD's Forum : Why you should care about devices : John Dowdell

Logged In : The Future of Flash on Devices : Top Developers

Selling Macromedia Flash Device Content to Clients : Phillip Torrone

Flash Enabled : Flash Design and Development for Devices
Chapter 5 : Understanding the Flash Application Development Workflow

Macromedia MX Featured Community Site : PocketPCFlash.net

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New Flash MX Resources at Macromedia.com

In addition to the all of of content related to the Pet Market Blueprint application, we have also released a ton of additional Flash MX content and resources at the Macromedia Flash MX Application Development Center. I have included the Flash specific articles from the Pet Market Blueprint application center.

Flash Extreme : Locking Down Flash MX : Branden Hall

Extending components in Macromedia Flash MX : Greg Burch

Pet Market Blueprint Application Center

Designing Application Interfaces with Flash MX

Smoothing Web Interaction

Testing the Blueprint application for usability

Jacob Nielsen Reviews Pet Market

Flazoom.com Reviews Pet Market

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Macromedia Blueprint Application Center : Pet Market

Macromedia has released the Macromedia MX Pet Market Blueprint Application and Center. The Pet Market Blueprint application is an online store for a fictional pet retailer similar to the Java™ Pet Store released by Sun and the Microsoft .NET Pet Shop.

Overview

View the Pet Market Application

Logged In : Introducing Pet Market

JD's Forum : How Well does the Pet Market Blueprint Application work for you?

Why Pet Market on Macromedia MX

A Tour of the Petmarket Application

The Server Side of Pet Market : Jeremy Allaire

Behind the scenes of the Pet Market Blueprint Application

Usability

Designing Application Interface with...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about components (but were afraid to ask)

Want to learn about components? Want to learn everything about components? Below is a list of some of the best, and most useful articles, tutorials and resources covering all aspects of using, creating and understand components.

Learn about components

Creating Flash MX Components : Jonathan Kaye

Custom UI's and Listeners

Dynamically Attaching Components : Guy Watson

Extending Components : Customizing the list box component : Nigel Pegg

Pixel Fonts in List / Combo Boxes : Branden Hall

Reusing ProgressBar Components : Branden Hall

Stretchy Components : Branden Hall

Custom Symbols in ListBox Components : Branden Hall

Your Friend the Component : Branden...
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Server Side ActionScript Tutorial

There is a new tutorial on Server Side ActionScript at Macromedia.com. Here is the description:

Building a Database Query Application with Server-Side ActionScript
In this module, you can learn how to build an application that searches a database using parameters provided by the user and displays the results in a rich Macromedia Flash user interface. It demonstrates two key features of ColdFusion MX: the built-in Macromedia Flash Remoting service and new support for Server-side ActionScript.

This was written by Christian Cantrell who will be speaking about Flash Remoting at FlashForward NYC.

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New Flash MX Resources at Macromedia.com

If you have stopped by Macromedia.com today, you probably noticed that we made some new products announcements for ColdFusion MX, Dreamweaver MX and Fireworks MX. Don't worry though, we still have a lot of new Flash related resources at the Site:

----------- Developer Centers ---------------

Macromedia Flash MX Application Developer Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/

Macromedia ColdFusion MX Application Developer Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/

---------- New Technology : Flash Remoting --------------------

Macromedia Flash Remoting
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/flashremoting/

---------- New Tutorials, Articles, Columns, Resources --------

Download Macromedia Studio MX Preview Release Software
http://www.macromedia.com/go/mxstudio_trial

Getting Started with ColdFusion MX and Flash Remoting : Mike Chambers
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/startremoting.html

Connecting ColdFusion MX and Macromedia MX : Kevin Towes
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/remoting.html

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