I'm listening to the Macromedia podcast with Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers...

Topics: MXNA data services, Mark Anders (VP of Engineering) on Zorn. Mark brings his ten years of Microsoft experience to Macromedia. At Microsoft he headed the ASP.Net and .Net Framework teams. (I recently had the chance to meet and talk to Mark and besides his amazing wealth of knowledge, he's a really wonderful guy.)

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I updated my SWF as DLL tutorial on OSFlash in response to Clément Arnoux's question on the OSFlash mailing list regarding why I didn't use an exclude.xml file instead of intrinsic classes. (The answer was that I just hadn't thought of it at the time!) I updated the tutorial to cover the use of an exclude.xml file as it should actually provide a much simpler workflow in many instances.

The tutorial discusses how SWFs can be used as code-only Dynamic Link Libraries while developing for the Flash Platform.

Today is OSFlash's first monthaversary. Here are some statistics from our baby's first month here in cyberspace:

• Members on the mailing list: 353
• Members on the Wiki: 232
• Total unique visitors to the wiki: 16,040
• Total visits: 31,257
• Number of wiki edits made: 1,124
• Number of unique pages on the Wiki: 153
• Number of open source projects hosted by OSFlash: 10
• Number of open source projects listed on OSFlash: 83
• Bandwidth used: 3.82 GB

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We had some extra time during my recent Best Practices Flash and Flex class and, at the request of the class, decided to cover FAMES. As part of this, we downloaded the latest Swfmill, which has support for linking classes to clips directly in the SWFML file. I thought we might as well use this new functionality as it is cleaner than littering your code with Object.registerClass statements. Little did I know at the time that this little addition would actually result in a huge shift in workflow. Much head-scratching later, I was able to come up with a workflow that is actually much simpler to work with than the current workflow. The problem is that currently it does not work with FAMES (Flashout, the "F", doesn't currently support this workflow) so you will have to use the command line for the time being.

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Peter recently introduced me to the Flash Development Tool (FDT), an upcoming commercial plugin for Eclipse from the team at Powerflasher that looks very promising indeed.

Carlo Blatz from Powerflasher was kind enough to invite me to the Beta for FDT and I can't wait to test it out for myself.

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