We are happy to announce that Grant Skinner will be giving a three-day workshop on Flash MX 2004 Enterprise Development in London on May 24-26, 2004.

Grant will be teaching the skills, approaches and processes necessary to successfully plan and implement robust enterprise applications in a team environment using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional.

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Breaking from tradition, I'm posting a review here of the terrible service we have received at the hands of Simply Computers and their b2b arm, Misco. If you are an individual or company in the UK, you may be interested in reading this.

We placed an order for a piece of software with Simply Computers through their web site on February 27th, taking advantage of their 10% off offer for new customers. Simply responded immediately with an email alerting us that we would receive a confirmation once payment had been processed or that we would be contacted within one business day should anything be amiss.

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According to The Register, the US patent office has nullified Eolas' patent covering the embedding of plug-ins into web pages. This should come as a breath of relief to the Flash community, as proposed changes to Internet Explorer to make it comply with the patent would have prompted the modification of any site with Flash content.

The article states that Eolas Technologies has 60 days to appeal the ruling.

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