December 11, 2005
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As developers who use the (formerly) Macromedia toolset, we’re used to having almost more information than we can take being on tap. The official information source that is the Developer Exchanges have always been a massively useful place to go for hints, tips and news about our favorite products.
As far as I can see, [...]
December 6, 2005
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Many former Macromedians, Adobe staff and other community bloggers have already given their 2c worth on this subject – check MXNA, the ‘Goog or Adobe Blogs. I figure I ought to have my say as well.
The general feel out there among the “on the inside” bloggers appears to be a good one. People are [...]
August 30, 2005
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Hey, Macromedia! What’s up with the Flash EULA?
Perhaps after the party celebrating the approval of the Adobe-Macromedia merger, some three-quarters smashed legal intern got their hands on the EULA draft and played around. On first glance it seems that:
you can’t install the Flash Player software on a portable computer (s 2(a))
you agree implicitly [...]
May 20, 2005
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I’ll have some extra free time next week while I’m away from work at a conference. I’m planning to use that time to do an update of the ACME Guide based on a couple of emails I’ve received.
Before I begin, I’d really like to receive some feedback from you folks out there using the [...]
April 18, 2005
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WTF!? The entire Macromedia-centric blogmos is going nuts about the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia. Just check the Goog
This isn’t one I would ever have picked… and I’m not certain it’s a good thing. There are too many concurrent spaces in tools offered by Adobe and Macromedia for this to be truly good. [...]
April 17, 2005
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I’ve just posted a new version of the ACME Guide on its home page. There are a just few minor changes in the Guide, allowing for some stuff I missed in the Apache config and some updaters and hotfixes released by Macromedia.
In more ACME news, I have been working on a guide for Eclipse [...]
February 17, 2005
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Well, MXDU has begun with a quick overview of a couple of snazzy Flex apps and then the presentation that may already take the cake for coolest of the conference – Tim Buntel of Macromedia doing a "Tiki Lounge"-themed, no speaking involved, lounge music soundtracked run through of the new features in CFMX7, complete with [...]