After a bit of a hiatus, the week in review is back, but since I took a couple of weeks off this is just going to be a jumble of Flash items I’ve seen recently.
Yahoo has a new version of its Chess game written in Flash (I think the old one was Java) and it looks very sweet.
Dirk Eismann has part one of his Flex 2 mxmlc Goodies series. The command line compiler is something every Flexer should know, so this has potential to be a good series of posts.
In more “Flash is Everywhere” news, Macro Casario mentioned that there are rumors of Flash Lite for the Sony PSP and PS3. If it happens, it opens up a big, big audience to Flash and Flex developers.
Ray Camden took a little bit of heat for his Advanced ColdFusion contest, but I think the inclusion of Flex 2 as a requirement is very cool. CF developers NEED to know Flex. He stresses that it doesn’t have to be good Flex, it just needs to be Flex. Good call Ray.
This might hardly qualify as news, because I think it’s silly, but Balthaser released a statement this week saying that they had received a patent for rich media. Coverage/Commentary by Jeff Houser, FlashInsider, JD, FlashAnt and Ajaxian.
Jen deHaan posted that a new version of the AS Best Practices guide is on the dev center.
Not quite Flash, but Bruce Chizen talked to Knowledge@Wharton about the future of Adobe and while the article isn’t small, it’s a good read, especially on a Friday afternoon.
Lastly, I had interviews with Wes Carr of Gtalkr and Jeremy Suriel of Goowy about their use of Flash. They’re both fairly prominent Web 2.0 companies and the interviews talk a lot about their experiences using Flash for those types of applications.
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