OFLA Online: The First Online Open Source Flash Conference
Friday 21 October 2005 @ 8:28 am

Today 18:00 GMT OSFlash will start the first online conference via Breeze.
You will learn about several OSFlash projects presented by their leading developers and other OSFlash related topics. There are rumours about news about MTASC and AS3 and several other exciting looks into the OSFlash world.
More details on OSFlash.org.

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RDT - Ruby meets Eclipse
Tuesday 18 October 2005 @ 9:10 am

There is an Eclipse Plugin for Ruby called RDT.
I found a very good article on this via slashdot: Using the Ruby Development Tools plug-in for Eclipse

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Flex 2 alpha available for download
Monday 17 October 2005 @ 9:44 am

Macromedia Labs gone online today.

“This download will install Flex Builder 2, the Flex Framework 2, Flex samples, command line tools, and Flash Player 8.5 for Windows. It also contains a .dmg file that you can copy to your Mac in order to install Flash Player 8.5 for Mac. There is an option to only install the framework, samples, and command line tools.”

I am still downloading and very curious!

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Flash 9 is codenamed BLAZE
Tuesday 11 October 2005 @ 9:26 am

Mike Downey blogged a few details about the next Flash 9 IDE codename Blaze. The public alpha will be available in spring 2006 when the Flash Player 8.5 will be released.
Macromedia currently does so many announcements that I really got little confused. First let’s wait for the upcoming public alpha of Flex Builder 2 and Flash Player 8.5 which starts next Monday.

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OSFlash.org got a new face -sweet
Saturday 8 October 2005 @ 3:30 pm

Check the new design of OSFlash.org and if you are a designer you might be interested in the OSFlash Mascot Contest.
Many thanks to Nicolas Coevoet who made the design and to Aral who integrated it into DokuWiki.
I like the sweet favicon ;)

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Kevin Lynch’s Web 2.0 video with Flex 2 Preview
Saturday 8 October 2005 @ 3:05 pm

Mike Chambers blogged a video of the Flex 2, AS3 and the Flash Player 8.5 presentation made by Kevin Lynch.
Flash is your friend!
I am very impressed of the new technologies and the new “Kick ass” Developer Tool ;) Get more information here: http://macromedia.com/go/web2
As I said the announcement of Sparkle is like “The Empire Strikes Back” I call this “Return Of The Jedi”.
Another nice thing I saw in the video is that the Open Source Flash community OSFlash.org is recognized as an important part of the Flash platform future.

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Macromedia announced Flash Player 8.5 and Flex Builder 2 (Zorn)
Thursday 6 October 2005 @ 1:56 pm

Today Macromedia anounced the Flex 2 product line and the Flash Player 8.5

“Alpha versions of Flex Builder 2 and Flash Player 8.5 are expected to be available for download on October 17 in conjunction with the MAX 2005 developer conference. The alpha version of Flex Enterprise Services 2 will be available later in the development cycle. All of these products are expected to be commercially available in the first half of calendar 2006.”

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