Ryan Steward has written a very positive review about a the different Aviary tools Phoenix, Peacock and Hummingbird he was given an early preview. I'm very happy to read that he especially likes Peacock, the pattern generator which is my little baby...

Finally it's in the stores: Flash MX for Interactive Simulation by Jonathan Kaye and David Castillo. To my knowledge this book is the first one to cover the area of simulations in Flash. This means you will hear things like "States", "Event-Action-Tables"...

It looks like "Mr. Ease's" new book Robert Penner's Programming Macromedia Flash MX has just arrived at the bookstores. Unfortunately I couldn't grab a copy yet, but I'm sure that you can buy it blind if you are interested in the combination...