Of course some of you couldn't wait to try out the new features of the Flash Player 8. But just like two years ago all your attempts to iterate through the internal objects or use them will fail if you don't change...

Today I read this unbelievable article about a nursery school in Geneva, NY that tries to prevent their children from drawing a rainbow after some parents freaked out over this because it represents the symbol of the gay community. From now on...

it seems so - at least when it comes to making the same mistakes that Flash developers were able to make for several years. For those who don't know what Ajax is about - it's a way to exchange data with the...

These days I'm observing some strange new patterns in blog comment spamming and somehow I don't get what's the idea behind it. Maybe some other bloggers have noticed a similar phenomenon and have idea what's its purpose. Or how about if one...

Looks like I'm also one of the lucky few who received a surprise package from Macromedia. So I send a big Thank You! to Mike Chambers and whole Flash team! I really like those trading cards! [rant]Unfortunately I was also one of...

There is currently the Selfportrait at 8 am design competition for the Toca Me conference running on designmadeingermany.de and my beloved is also taking part. Of course I have no choice but to abuse my full publishing power in order to manipulate...

Looking at my inbox today I'm getting more and more convinced that it would be a good idea to make it obligatory for people to get an Information Highway Driving License before they are allowed to connect to the internet. Exuse me,...

As a European I always found one thing about US-patent legislation absolutely ridiculous: the ability to obtain patents on completely trivial software solutions, algorithms or interface elements. Just remember the "Amazon 1-click-shopping" feature or the charges of Adobe vs Macromedia because of...

Not in Bulgaria, not in Romania, no - Fergus Falls, Minnesota is the place where Flash Crackers were found. Originally from China, the crackers with aliases "M-99" and "Black Cat" where located right in the US. Some heavy charges are expected....

When the sun rises in San Francisco I know of some people who will be absolutely not amused when they see what you are doing here. You better think about posting this before it's too late. You only make that mistake once....

Just to make that clear - I will permanently ignore any site that tries to sneak into my referrer list by means of an automatic PHP script. And I don't care if yours is the best flash blog ever. If you want...

Support the fight against one of the most ugliest fonts that was ever chiseled into bezier curves: Comic Sans. Creator Vincent Connare is not very happy about the campaign: "I can understand some of the sentiment behind the 'ban comic sans' campaign...

Normally I keep politics out of this blog, but when I read this: "...that the president has no intention of allowing any foreign power to catch up with the huge lead the United States has opened since the fall of the Soviet...

Stock analysts and web developers seem to have something in common - they are not much interested in reading the publications of the others. Still - I just stumbled over this article in BusinessWeek Online which caught my eye because it takes...

It's what inside what counts, isn't it so? Well, not so at HOT or NOT: now you can vote on the beauty of blogs. Their service is still in beta and it seems that the link got out by accident, but still...

I must say I had a good laugh looking at the Macromedia INTERNATIONALIZED application which was showcased on FlashForward and is now available on ericcd.net. A little quote from the introduction page which elaborates over the advantages of using flash mx :...

Overheard on Flashcoders: Branden: [...] Also there is a *very large* ISP that will soon be rolling out a number of very affordable hosting plans that will include the FlashCom server. [...] Mike Chambers: watch this url for information So it looks...