If you are at all interested in my experience at the Macromedia MAX 2003 Conference this year, you can read about it from the special page I will be updating at http://www.ekosm.com/projects/max2003/. I will also be photo blogging along with other's at Community Vision (created by Christian Cantrell). If you see me at MAX please say "Hi", but don't ask me to eat cinnamon.

Vera Fleischer gives us a tour of the Macromedia offices in San Francisco where she works on the Flash team. I've been in the Macromedia offices once before, and I couldn't help but be impressed. The design of the offices are quite conducive to creativity and smart thinking.

For those who subscribe to the Macromedia Edge Newsletter you may notice that the latest edition has an article boasting the new Flash features found in both in the new authoring tool (MX 2004), as well as the new player (v7), among which they talk about the CSS support now found in Flash.

Just yesterday I saw a link on kottke.org to Todd's article describing in some detail what CSS styles are supported in Flash, and some important ones that are not. It's an important read for anyone thinking they want to use CSS in their HTML & Flash.

Macromedia has released at least five new articles/tutorials using Flash MX 2004:

Building a Streaming Video Presentation with Flash MX 2004 Media Components
Data Binding in Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004
New Features for Mobile and Devices in Flash MX 2004
Building and Testing Flash MX 2004 Components
Exploring the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Component Architecture

Take notice of all the rockstar like mugshots.

The MMUG Flash MX mini conference looks like it would be a good one to go to. Lots of freebies, good speakers, and of course the fact that it's in London. I regret not being able to go. Happens September 19th.

Just found Miguel Moreno's Sandbox and was impressed with the work. Miguel has figured out how to make a true desktop windows application make use of an "embedded" Flash player using Flash Communications server to stream video.

I say "embedded" because from the looks of it, the C# app is a shell that wraps around the player, but it's still a great expirement.