I just wrote up a comprehensive blog post on the SWX web site on a new method of allowing cross-domain data exchange that's in SWX Beta 1, as well as an issue that this new method has with the default rules in the Apache mod_security model (and instructions on how to work around this, generously provided by Folkert Hielema). Also, there's a sneak peek at a third method of handling cross-domain data exchange that will be available in the next beta release.

Read up on cross domain data exchange with SWX Beta 1 on the SWX blog.

I presented a new version of my Rediscovering Fun session at Multi-Mania yesterday and had great fun doing so!

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SWX Beta 1.0 is now available for download.

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The SWX Beta is as ready as its going to be but it's too late for me to make a release tonight (I need to be at the airport in about five hours -- around 6am). Rather than a late-night botched job, I'm going to leave it for tomorrow in Belgium.

There are two things that I wanted to get in there that I haven't been able to. The first is writing in the actual calling URL to the allowDomain call in the data SWF (so that the application that loads the data SWF doesn't have to System.allowDomain the data SWF just because it has to use _parent._url for its own allowDomain). The second is an API addition. The current beta will have a cancel() method. In the next beta, this will be replaced with pause() and kill() methods.

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We've reduced the cost of posting a job on the OSFlash job board to a far more affordable $50 per job.

It used to be $200 per job, which I personally thought was really excessive! Thankfully, Dave updated his Joard job board engine so that job board owners can now set their own prices so I've lowered it to the lowest it allows.

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