Jen deHaan's site of the week
My first site of the week:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739710473912337648
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Notes from sneak peeks
See the entire notes, just completed, in this blog entry:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/dehaan/archives/2005/10/sneak_peeks_at.cfm
Enjoy!
Sneak Peeks at MAX 2005 - clarified and fleshed out a bit
Notes from Sneak Peeks at Max 2005, written and updated during the 2005 MAX Sneak Peeks. This session provides future and upcoming Macromedia product features!
These notes have since been fleshed out and clarified.
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October 17, 2005
Notes from MAX 2005 keynote (being updated)
Notes taken at the MAX 2005 general session/keynote.
Please excuse the rough/unedited nature of these notes!
Notes from the MAX 2005 keynote. Over 3000 in attendence (standing room only - or sitting on the floor at the back in my case).
Ze Frank - Opened the keynote with a very humorous talk.
Steven Elop -
100 million people have downloaded FP8.
400,000 during this [1.5 hr] keynote.
New ways to communicate with customers (blogs, knowledge base) this past year.
Mobile - Lots of announcements in the past year from Samsung and Nokia.
Tomorrow - announcements for mobile in north america where you (developers) can make money.
FlashCast soon in north america.
Microsoft: two words to MS: "try again".
New ways to participate in the development of Flash Player.
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Kevin Lynch:
Check out Tim O'Reillys document on his blog about "what is web 2.0".
* Now: Studio 8, FP8, Flash Lite 1.1, flex 1.5.
36,000 people have seen presentations about the product.
1.5 million have downloaded Studio 8
Flash Lite 2.0: AS2 based.
* Coming soon (very soon):
New line of products - Flex Builder 2, Flex Enterprise Services 2, Flash Player 8.5.
Flash Player 8.5: New VM for AS3.0
AS3.0 - performance improvements, EMCAScript standard language, DOM Level 3 even tmodel, E4X (ECMAScript for XML), Regular expressions, runtime error checking as opposed to only at compile time.
Flex Builder 2: Based on Eclipse. Pricing will be under $1000 for Flex Builder 2. Compiler is built into Flex Builder 2. So everyone can start building Flex applications. Can work and build things without the Flex server.
Flex Enterprise - the server version of Flex.
Mercury Interactive - partnering with Macromedia to test Flex. Integration between Flex and Mercury's performance and quality center to test and optimize enterprise Flex applications.
This is up in *Macromedia Labs*. You can go sign up and download alpha (etc) builds of products. You can go get Flex Builder NOW from the Macromedia Labs site:
* Future:
- Future Scenario
Sample site shown of what a "future website" might look like, and things it might be able to do. For ex: HTML and Flash integration, RFID (barcodes), offline and online, phone integration, print, and so on.
- Architecture
- "Apollo universal client"
Flash and HTML integration. Run outside the browser (ie: locally on your computer). MXML, Flash, HTML, PC/mobile frameworks. Server-side: web services.
Scripting and display integration
Data sync
Online/offline,
Desktop integration
Notification
one-click installation
Update management
Secure sandbox
Will be posted on Macromedia Labs when it gets to alpha stage.
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Bruce Chizen:
Talking about intentions.
Goal to provide an engagement platform.
At the core Flash/PDF. Applicatios that are cross platform. Common user interfaces to increase productivity.
Commitment and promise for more compelling demos next year at this time.
October 12, 2005
Create a custom Help search category in Flash 8
When you perform a search in the Help panel in Flash 8, you can filter your search by a pre-determined set of categories. For example, you can search only the components content, or just the tutorials and samples content. This can be very useful if you don't want to scroll through 10 billion results when you search.
However, what if you want to choose your own content to search? For example, what if you want to exclude the mobile books because you're not creating mobile content (yet)? You can by following these steps!
TO CREATE A CUSTOM HELP SEARCH CATEGORY IN FLASH 8:
1. Close Flash.
2. Find the categories.xml file, in which you will add a new category for your custom search. Find the categories.xml file here:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\HelpPanel\categories.xml
HD:Users:Shared:Library:Application Support:Macromedia:Flash 8:en:Configuration:HelpPanel:categories.xml
4. Save a back-up of this file, just in case.
5. Modify the categories.xml file. Add this to categories.xml alongside the other categories:
<category title="Not Mobile" keyword="notmobile"></category>
6. Then find the Help folder here:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\HelpPanel\Help
HD:Users:Shared:Library:Application Support:Macromedia:Flash 8:en:Configuration:HelpPanel:Help
You see a bunch of book files, each of which contains a help_toc.xml file. You need to go into each folder of a book you want to add, and add the keyword you chose above ("notmobile") and add that inside of each help_toc.xml file.
So, I'm going to start with the ActionScriptLangRef: find help_toc.xml in that folder (scroll right to the end), and in that file modify this line (line 2):
to<book title="ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference" directory="ActionScriptLangRef" categories="languagereferences,as2" language="en" version="2.0" sort="mm_7">
<book title="ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference" directory="ActionScriptLangRef" categories="languagereferences,as2,notmobile" language="en" version="2.0" sort="mm_7">
7. Repeat this for each book you want to search in the notmobile category.
When you're done, reopen Flash and open the Flash panel. You'll see the new category in the Search pop-up menu:
MAX event - talk about documentation - win stuff!
Just want to let you guys know about our MAX sessions next week. I'll be there to talk about documentation, Flash, and so on -- we have some discussions topics on hand, but more than anything just want to talk to the people that use the documentation and get your ideas and feedback on it all.
Information on the two sessions is below. Also, I'll be hanging out in and around the Community pit quite a bit (I'll have flyers of what you see below in case you forget to write this down!) Hope to see you there!
STUDIO 8
What do you think of the documentation?
The Macromedia Studio 8 documentation team would like to hear what you think about the in-product help, Getting Started manuals, product tutorials, sample files, and the Studio 8 documentation experience in general.
COME TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! WIN STUFF!
Monday October 17th
1:30 - 3:30pm Room 304C
3rd level of the Anaheim Convention Center
Tuesday October 18th
1:30 - 3:30pm Room 304C
3rd level of the Anaheim Convention Center
PRIZES * MEET THE TEAM * HELP MAKE THE DOCS BETTER