FC64, the open source Flash Commodore 64 emulator project by Darron Schall and Claus Wahlers won a well-earned first prize in the "Just Freakin' Cool" category of the Flex Developer Derby! Play with a live demo of FC64 online and relive the glory days of the Commodore 64 through the magic of ActionScript 3 and Flex 2.

Congratulations, guys! :)

Alongside the Flex 2 release, Adobe just released a preview version of Flash Professional 9 on Adobe Labs. This is an early look at the next version of the Flash IDE with ActionScript 3 support. Download it on Adobe Labs.

What are you waiting for? Go download version 1.0 now from Adobe.com!

Congratulations to the amazing folks on the Flex team on their astounding effort. They completely rewrote (and vastly expanded) the Flex framework in ActionScript 3 while also creating a completely new (and rockin') visual IDE based on Eclipse. If my own experiences in the last year or so are any indication, you are going to love working with the Flex 2 Framework and Flex Builder 2!

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I'll Flash anywhere dammit! I don't discriminate.

Have you heard of Flash on the Beach? No, it's not a new cocktail. Although if it was, I'd expect it to have Kahlua in it. Lots!

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I'm off to Belgium tomorrow morning for Multi-Mania '06 (at some freakishly early hour apparently... with my current deadlines, I might as well not sleep tonight!) I blogged about it earlier so won't go into the details again here. Needless to say, if you're going to the event, feel free to come up and say hello. I do bite but I've been told it's quite an enjoyable experience. Oh yes, deadlines...