Ralf Bokelberg has a brief post on his blog about how Reusability is not the main benefit of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and I couldn't agree with him more.

As my students will attest, in every one of my classes I stress (ad nauseam) how the greatest benefit of OOP (and your #1 goal when developing applications) is Encapsulation (what Ralf calls "locality" in his post.)

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Nikos Kastellanos has created a utility for viewing SWD files (SWF debug files), based on the information in the OFD: Open Flash Debugger page on OSFlash.

The March 2006 issue of LinuxUser & Developer Magazine has "A Free Software Flash solution emerges" as a lead article in the news section.

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I arrived back in lovely Brighton this morning and proceeded to crash for about ten hours. I guess a crazy week spent sleeping at most three hours a night had to take its toll sometime! But, goodness, was it fun!

Before anything else, here's a big thank-you to Lynda and the whole Lynda.com/FlashForward crew – Marci, Christophe, Megan, Kevin, Todd, Selin, Garo and, of course, Bruce (glad we finally got to hang out a bit at this one!) as well as all the volunteers and my workshop tech-god Keith -- for staging an amazing conference. I know we were all saddened when Lynda and Stewart decided to go their separate ways last year but, in retrospect (and very selfishly, I know), I'm so excited that we now have not one but two wonderful conferences being organized by the former power duo (and we so desperately needed a solid conference in Europe after all the recent debacles.)

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One of the highlights of the FlashForward Seattle 2006 conference for me has been meeting Lawrence Lessig yesterday after viewing his wonderfully choreographed presentation on the Creative Commons.