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The Edge, November Issue

Another great number for The Edge magazine.
Macromedia publihsed the November issue of the ezine. This is the table of contents :

01. Flash video: driving rich user experience
02. Breeze Tips and Techniques
03. Grab your audience with MM Captivate
04. Managing large sites using the WPS
05. Encode, design, Deliver flash video
06. Fireworks tutorial : colorizing background imagery
07. Casa Study : flash platform powers deliberate polling
08. Sites that inspire

The Edge, 11th November
http://www.macromedia.com/newsletters/edge/november2004/

The Edge homepage
http://www.macromedia.com/newsletters/edge/

MAX2004 - General Session Videos

If you missed MAX or want to experience it again, be sure to check out the videos published by Macromedia.

Watch the general Session Videos for Macromedia - MAX 2004 http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/max/video/2004/

Firefox 1.0 released

Today  Firefox 1.0 is available for downloading. This is the first major release since the Mozilla Suite's 1.0 in 2002. It's available in 14 languages :)
I downloaded the browser and i found it faster, easier to use, more efficient with some new feature like the Tabbed Browsing that allows to load many webpages in the same window. I also apprecieted the Google toolbar integrated in the browser, the Live Bookmarks to navigate through the latest news and blog headlines, the popup blocking and all add-ons and extension available !
Bart Decrem, spokesman for Mozilla, said :

"When Netscape open sourced its code in 1998, it was about inviting the world in. Firefox is fulfilling that goal. Microsoft can't compete with this sense of community, because people feel like they own a piece of Firefox. These people see Firefox as the open source thing they be a part of"

The Firefox Official page : http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Download Firefox 1.0 !

MAX 2004 Day 1, the definitive Flash summary

I tried to take the best from milions of news and info about the first day of MAX 2004 :

Day 1 Topics :
It's Happening: Rich Internet Applications
The RIA Experience
More Flex RIAs
Blackstone, the Next-Generation ColdFusion
"Maelstrom": The Next Version of Flash Player

Official Day 1 : General Session Summary by Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/max2004/articles/gen_session1.html

Macromedia Max 2004 Topic Center
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/max2004/

The Maelstrom in Your Future on MM Developer Center
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/logged_in/wanbar_maelstrom.html

Flashcom 2 and what might be coming up (flashcomguru.com)
http://www.flashcomguru.com/articles/flashcom2.cfm
Some of the new features :
The possible features are as follows.

• reliability: a more stable flashcom server when running many applications and many vhosts
• scalability: more streams to more users more easily
• architecture change: Edge servers may be able to cache Flashcom data for Enterprise deployments
• better clustering and easier load balancing
• improved video and higher quality playback
• ultra fast seeking on large video files (currently this is slow)
• improved management and monitoring tools
• W3C compliant log files (did Chris actually dedicate this to me? I feel honored and will stop pestering him now ;-)
• 'tons of info on streams' (the server will gather and log much more information on streams and traffic than it is now
• XML API for server administration and monitoring
• user definable access controls (so authentication may take place before the actual connection is made)
• API enhancements such as
- serverside support for XML sockets
- serverside support for Web Services
- serverside support for JPG streams
- serverside support for access to the file system (sandboxed)

MAX FCS sneak peak session
http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p37828859/?launcher=false&skip-survey=true

Flashcom team attended a sneak peak session on Flashcom 2 at the MAX conference.

Flash Player 8 : codename Maelstrom

via Kevin Lynch : The future Flash
http://www.klynch.com/archives/000073.html

via Tony Weeg : http://www.revolutionwebdesign.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=FCDF3872-05F2-6E5E-37BC692074EC04B2

via RichInternet.de : Flash Platform Overview & Roadmap
http://www.richinternet.de/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=FB2B63DB-BDBD-270B-64333419F465D2CB

Rob Brooks : Malestrom (Next Generation Flash Player)
http://www.cfczone.org/blogs/rob/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=FA918A03-F50E-96AB-A09E32100850BE0E

MAX Keynote by Mike Chambers
http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/006253.cfm

New Macromedia's site section : Mobile and Blackstone

Just 2 new section published on the MM official site. The first one is the right and official page to get info about about the next significant release of ColdFusion (codename BloackStone) :

Blackstone Official Page :
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/blackstone/

The second one is the new Mobile area dedicated to mobile world :

Macromedia Mobile Page :
http://www.macromedia.com/mobile/

(via John Dowell blog site : http://www.markme.com/jd/)

Opening my Newsreader client i also found this 4 new forums about Flash and mobile:

- Flash Handhelds
- FlashCast
- Flash Lite
- Flash Player SDK