Topic Updates Linkdump
We’ve found updates on several of the topics we’ve blogged about recently, so rather than a dozen individual posts, let’s catch up all at once, shall we?
Mix06: New impressions from Guy Watson, Pete Barr-Watson, Aral Balkan and Grant Skinner. See also our previous linkful posts. After reading all these, one thing becomes clear: Microsoft already owns the hearts and minds of Flash developers… who play video games. Seriously, have you ever heard of such a Halo-happy bunch?
Flex 2.0 beta 2: Basically just stay tuned to Mike Chambers’ blog. Recent news of note includes updated Open Source AS3 libs; news that the SDK is available for download separately (useful for Mac and Linux developers) and also free by the way; and a link to a great article outlining the differences between betas 1 and 2. See our original beta 2 post for more links.
Competitions: We mentioned a couple Flex competitions in that beta 2 post as well; we have since been alerted to another Flex competition from Ray Camden — this one related to Cold Fusion. And of course we must mention Turdhead’s ActionScript Poetry Contest — submissions have closed, but check out the entries and be ready to pick your favorite when online voting begins later this week.
Flash on PSP: We already told you this was officially happening; the question since has been when and what version? A recent rumor suggested it would be Flash Lite 2, but the consensus now tends towards Flash 6 instead. While somewhat disappointing (and possibly a downgrade form the homebrew version, which claims Flash 7 support), it’s no surprise when you hear that the PSP’s browser is NetFront from Access, and one of the available updates for that browser all along has been… a Flash 6 plugin. Hopefully if this release is a success, further updates will come later.
There, that should keep you busy for a while.
