I don't know what the deal is with Flash Europe but there appears at best to be some serious lack of organization going on.
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I just saw that our good friends over at Friends of ED posted a news item on the ActionScript for Designers course that Sham Bhangal will be teaching for us at the end of February. Sham's a prolific author and was my personal hero after I read his excellent Flash MX Upgrade Essentials book back in the day. His latest books include Foundation Flash MX 2004 and Foundation ActionScript for Flash MX 2004 from Friends of ED and Flash Hacks from O'Reilly.

Sham's also going to be doing a talk at the February meeting of the London MMUG where he will take a classic MAME video game and recreate it Flash.

Thanks to your votes and donations, work has already begun to bring ActionScript 2 support to NaturalDocs. I received the following email from Greg Valure this morning:

Well, now that your campaign is over you'll be happy to know it delivered. You didn't get the 240 votes you wanted, but you got me working on it. Since you happened to time it right before the weekend, I already have it partially working. I'm hoping to have it within a week, depending on how busy I'll be otherwise.

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I'm going to bring the NaturalDocs for Flash Vote Campaign to an official end at midnight on Sunday night. (Of course people are free to vote after that time, it just won't be as part of this campaign.)
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As of this morning we have 20 votes for the campaign to get ActionScript support to be added to NaturalDocs.Although this is almost double the number of votes that C++ has and although we will be donating enough to put ActionScript 2 at the head of the list monetarily, it still may not be enough due to the perceived high "general importance" of the current top spot language, C++ (ie., it's accepted as fact that lots of people use it.) You and I know that lots of people use ActionScript too -- so if we can really open up the vote margin, this, coupled with our donation, should be enough to give ActionScript the decisive lead and guarantee that full language support for ActionScript is the next thing added to NaturalDocs.
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