I was just reading through the Flex EULA (reading EULAs has become a hobby of mine, it seems) when I came across an interesting snippet under the section titled "Ownership": "The foregoing grants of rights give you limited license to use the Software. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, Macromedia and its suppliers retain all [...]

Emilie and I just returned from drinks with Grant (and his lovely girlfriend, Bobi) and the participants of the three day workshop Bits And Pixels Training organized here in London. Judging by the happy faces and the wonderful comments, the workshop was a great success! A big thank-you to Grant for his tireless 9-hour days [...]

Macromedia FlashPaper is a very exciting tool for "printing" SWFs from any application (it ships as part of Contribute 2 and is not available by itself.) FlashPaper is initially aimed at the consumer market for creating standalone FlashPaper SWFs -- which will, Macromedia must hope (and I believe), eventually replace PDFs. That's not, however, the [...]

Grant Skinner and Mike Chambers will be presenting at the London MMUG tonight. We have about 70 people registered -- looks like it's going to be a really good meeting and we've got a busy day planned! You can find directions and full details on the MMUG web site.

We're going to be hosting the Macromedia World-wide User Group Meeting in London tomorrow. Don't forget to sign up if you haven't done so. I just spoke with Grant about an hour ago and his plane should have just taken off from Canada en route to London. He's going to be presenting alongside Mike Chambers [...]