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Ribbit $100.000 killer app challenge
November 27th 2008

A peek at the Flash Player 10 features in Papervision
November 25th 2008

Degrafa Beta 3 released
November 23rd 2008

Play Doom online - thanks to Adobe Alchemy
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Durango and PatchPanel
November 19th 2008

See the new FMS 3.5 dynamic streaming
November 18th 2008

Groups.adobe.com launched
November 18th 2008

Alchemy Toolkit Preview out on Adobe Labs
November 18th 2008

First news from MAX
November 17th 2008

What will Adobe announce at MAX?
November 14th 2008

Review: Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted

April 03rd 2004 | John Dalziel

Flash is fun. It's actually one of the most fun jobs you can get paid to do. It's up there with rollercoaster designers and video game creators in the 'I can't believe I get paid for this' category. These days though it's all become a bit serious. All the talk is about RIAs, web services and n-tiered applications. The push is on to make Flash a legitimate business tool. While this is all well and good, it's also soul-crushingly dull.

Book review: Extending Flash MX 2004

March 14th 2004 | John Dalziel

One of the key design goals for the MX2004 range of products was to improve your workflow. This can be seen in a number of time-saving features in Flash MX 2004, but none more so than in the JSAPI. This simple scripting API allows you to extend the Flash MX 2004 development environment by letting you author your own authoring tools!

ActionScript : the Definitive Guide

February 28th 2004 | Jens C Brynildsen

Colin Moock has put together a book we have all been waiting for. ActionScript: the Definitive Guide is a book explaining the language of ActionScript itself (the object oriented programming language of Flash) with detailed descriptions and applied examples throughout as well as being the most comprehensive reference book for ActionScript to hit the shelves.

Web Services and Flash

February 15th 2004 | David Vogeleer

This article will open your eyes to the world of Web services. We will go over what Web services are and why to use them, as well as how to create them and how to tie into them using Flash MX 2004. And we will finish up by creating an application to search the Web using the Google API.

Review: Actionscript 2.0 Dictionary

January 18th 2004 | John Dalziel

Ever wondered what happened to that big paper Actionscript manual that used to come with your boxed version of Flash? Well now it's digitally bundled inside the Help documentation with the product. What's more interesting though is that not having a manual in the box is not necessarily a bad thing.

Review: RoboDemo 5.0

January 13th 2004 | John Dalziel

A few months ago Macromedia bought eHelp Corporation. We thought we'd take a look at RoboDemo 5.0 - eHelp's best selling desktop recording software to see what it can do and get some clues as to what the mothership might do next.