My hometown doesn't make it very often into the headlines, but here is something which is worth a lttle buzz: The city hall has just made the decision to switch 14,000 PCs of the administration from Windows NT to Linux. And this...

It looks like Macromedia has created a new newsgroup for discussion about the upcoming Central called macromedia.central.prerelease_discussion. It seems like the title of the original Central newsgroup - macromedia.central.general_discussion - was misunderstood by too many folks as a kind of general purpose...

I bet that in the Flash MX development team there is no one who speaks Hebrew. How do I come to this conclusion? Well, I'm currently trying create a Hebrew version of a site and you know what - I'm going through...

Apress have acquired the majority of Peer Information Group's Assets. This means that Friends Of ED will live again. Now that's good news!...

As a lot of blogs already mentioned yesterday Aral Balkan's blog onRelease is closed down. My first thought was "finally they have hacked his site" - as we all know Aral has created quite a lot of discussion in the community by...

Finish people are known for their love to Tango - it's news to me that they are also amazing Disco Dancers... (Warning: huge download) [Via K10k]...

When it comes to XML I must admit that I was not what you would call an "early adopter". The reason is that XML is so bloated. If you look at its data-to-structure ratio XML is not really the most efficient way...

You might have noticed that my Flash links in the sidebar follow a new sorting system. What you see now is a ranking as Alexa sees it. I wrote a little PHP script that spiders over to Alexa and checks the sites'...

I recently enjoyed the pleasures and pains of making a multilingual Flash site work. Not really unknown territory for me - I've been through this before, but that was in good old Flash 5 times. Back then it was an almost hopless...

Dave Jeffery uses Flash to rebuild TV-logo trailers or test cards and clocks of the past. [Via I Like]...

Once again a question on Flashcoders gave me another idea for a modification of my Drop Shadow script. You need soft edges around a picture or movie clip? Here you go. This is version 1.0 which does not use any masking....

Here is another source for graphical algorithms: Magic-Software by Dave Eberly author of Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics is a treasure box full of 2D and 3D algorithms. It's all C++, but it's not really difficult to transfer this to actionscript....

Just a few days ago Giacomo Guilizzoni has started Peldi's Little Blog. It looks like the focus will be on Flash Communication Server and useful tools, like his latest Shared Object Explorer. As he want quality before quantity he asks you what...

When I was looking for some intersection algorithms I came across Kevin Lindsey's site. And even though this is acually enemies' territory (he is a follower of SVG-ology) his site is full of interesting concepts, utilities and useful code snippets that could...