John Dowdell kind of dominates the roundup this week but I think all in all it’s been a big week with a lot of news and info.
On Tuesday, Scoble posted about the Sparkle team releasing a CTP version of their tool. John had a good write up with some good comments here. I also liked the write-up over at Pixelfumes.
On Wednesday, we got news that Flash Media Server 2.01 was going to be released with a licensing scheme that will allow for a developer edition. If you’re interested in FMS (and you should be) this is great news. FlashComGuru had the scoop.
There were also a couple of interesting posts I wanted to bring attention to. One was on Monday by Alexandru talking about why Ruby websites are always successful. I think he makes a great point. One thing that really builds hype about a technology and puts it in the public eye is a killer app. When you have tons and tons of smart people working together to build an application with their technology, you’re going to get a lot of killer apps. Hopefully Flex 2 will have some killer apps soon after its release. It certainly has the potential.
The other post was over at Turdhead.com about Flash and web standards. While I believe that web standards have a place on the web, and I support them, Flash does bring some important advancements. It’s not good to use Flash for everything, but it does do many things exceptionally well. Presentation across browsers and platforms is one of those things. JD also chimed in and it’s worth the read.
On Wednesday (and again on Thursday) JD called out the MXNA/Adobe community and implored everyone to talk to people outside the bubble about Flex 2 and what it can do. He went more in depth in a later post and talked more about why he wanted word to spread. He also hinted at a public beta release very soon. Everyone who reads me knows how important I think getting the word out is. My zeal probably goes overboard sometimes, but I think Flex 2 is a great product, and I think it lacks only exposure. Once we get it over the exposure hump, the Flash Platform will explode. It’s just too awesome.
Last, Jesse Warden presented on the Flex public alpha to the Atlanta Macromedia User Group last night. I haven’t heard how it went, but I’m anxious for Jesse to post his slides and/or code.
That’s about it. Hopefully next week we’ll see the Flex 2 public beta, so start telling people about it.
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