I just saw that my FlashForward Podcast interview with Lynda Weinman is now on the FlashForward web site. Lynda and I discuss the rewards of blogging, my involvement in open source and OSFlash as well as iCommons, web standards, Flash and Flex.

I am going to be presenting two sessions at FlashForward Austin in September, starting on the 11th with a one-day Flex workshop. My second session is called Supercharging the Flash IDE and in it I'll be covering extensions and tools, both closed-source and open, that make me a happier person when using Flash.

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Lets make today a special day in which you are encouraged to admit that you don't know something. Anything, really. Perhaps that you don't know how many planets there are in the solar system (hey, it keeps changing and the count is apparently currently at eight) or how many arguments the Tween class in Flash takes in its constructor (the answer, according to Jen's tutorial, is seven and that's the reason why I keep wishing they'd used a parameter object instead).

Admitting that you do not know something is a very important step in the eventual road to knowing something. And, in this day and age, the road between not knowing and knowing can be a very short ride indeed thanks to the all-mighty wisdom of Google so you really don't have too many excuses for not eventually finding things out, even if you don't know them this very instant.

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When it comes to designing user interface behavior, there is definitely more than one way to skin a cat.

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Four more of my Flex 2 Quick Starts have just been released on the Adobe Flex Developer Center.

These four cover data handling in Flex with a focus on implementing Flex 2 applications that use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern.

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Adobe has just released an interactive timeline of the 10 years of Flash. It's lovely to see OSFlash featured!