David Power, author of PHP5 for Flash from friends of ED will be presenting on the very subject at the London MMUG this Thursday (Oct 20th, 2005). It's free to attend, just sign up on the London MMUG web site to let us know you're coming (or miss out on the wonderful goodies we raffle off at the end of each night.) The meetings start at 19:00 (doors open 18:30) and last until about 21:00 to 21:30, after which we shuffle of to the local pub for much socializing and gossip!

We hold the meetings at City University in Angel (Northern Line).

Alias Cummins is going to be presenting a session on Collision Detection in Flash 8 at the London MMUG on October 20th, 2005. It's free to attend, just register on the London MMUG web site.

The event will be held at City University in Angel and doors open at 18:30.

How does winning a free copy of Studio 8 sound? That's what's up for grabs (among other things) in the OSFlash Mascot Contest. This is Richard Leggett's entry. Think you can do better? Then get cracking and send us your creation!

You can see all the entries on the OSFlash Mascot Gallery.

Ralf Bokelberg just announced on the OSFlash Mailing List that he is working on an Open Source Flash Debugger for Eclipse. He has a preview release (.zip) available. Here's a screenshot of it in action. It looks very cool. If there's enough interest, he's going to keep working on it and release it. So, what are you waiting for? Join the OSFlash mailing list and shout out your support!

I found myself on the Cooperative bank's online banking site today, pulling my hair out. Why, you ask? Well, because some genius decided that the bank should log the user out whenever the Back button is pressed. They even display a message telling you this after logging you out. Then you have to provide your sort number, account number, key code and some personal bit of information before you can get back in, only to be logged out in a few seconds when you forget and hit the Back button again. I swear I did this four times. Whomever designed that interaction should be forced to watch Battlefield Earth non-stop for a week.