I am not normally one to post about great flash games but when Frank Arr twittered about Desktop Tower Defense, I had a few seconds to spare so I thought I would have a look.

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after about five minutes I realized that I would not put this down unless I stopped right now! So I decided to check it out infront of the telly later....

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Well there goes three hours of my life - yes the TV was on but I wasn't watching it! I was cursing the creeps that kept coming wave after wave.. Especially those flying waves!!

Anyway, enough rambling - just a warning, do not play this game!

Why is it that the DTD for the cross-domain policy file doesn't contain a definition for the 'to-ports' attribute when it is clearly recommended in the Flex 2 docs??

Surly it is not too hard to add to add one little snippet to the DTD??

Doesn't take much, and then my nice IDE (that understands such things as DTDs) would not constantly warn me that the attribute is not declared.

I know, it is a small thing but it is the only warning in my entire app! It would be nice if it would just go away...

Adobe has listened to the feedback (screams) regarding being excluded from the Flex Developer Derby and now there is going to be a local version of the contest up and running for the user communities of Australia!

I am pleased to announce The Adobe & Builder AU Flex Developer Derby

It looks like the Adobe Sydney office is sticking to their word and is seriously committed to the local developer community down here.

Now let's see what you can do with Flex Beta3!!!

I have just stumbled across a really neat flash game, that is, if you are a geek! You have been sent a bomb, you have 15 minutes to defuse it. Oh and it helps if you are a geek as all the puzzles are simple logic/math puzzles have a look The Package

Here is the recording of today's Community Tech Wednesday!

Our very own Scottish JRun User Group Manager, Duncan Jack will be presenting his AMP Framework for Flash Applications and Rich Internet Applications. The AMP Framework provides a modular approach to building applications and enables content management to be distributed amongst team members, or delegated to clients. In addition, it helps to eliminate the blank screen inherent in HTML based applications, facilitate single sign-on between multiple applications and maintain search engine compatibility. A fully-functioning copy of the AMP Framework will be made available to all meeting participants via a download link at the end of the presentation. You can see the AMP Framework in action at http://www.lochlomondquiltshow.com.

We had a couple of audio drop offs today so the recording is not the best... please keep that in mind when reviewing the presentation. http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p16349708/

Someone referred to Flash content today as "vectors of mass distraction"

Every so often I get asked 'Just how safe is it for me to leave all my code in my flash application?'

I have always found this funny as compiled code can potentially be decompiled. I saw a thread flying arround one of the office mailing lists and decided to share! thanks to Alex for this one.

There are decompilers available for C++, Java and most other programming languages. There are obfuscators available for Flash (and most other programming languages too) that make decompiling more difficult, but this is still not totally safe. I think you are much better off following best practices and not store any sensitive information in your compiled code. Basically, you don't want to compile any sensitive information into the swf. You want to load it in at runtime over a secure protocol, such as HTTPS.

if you need more than that, check the Flash Security Whitepaper

I don't often get an email with a really cool flash game on it that I actualy want to share with the world but this is just perfect! It is a realy good example of Flash branding! Check it out of you have a few moments Art and the 60's

Many folks out there have been commenting for the longest time that Flash MX 2004 is just a little slower than it should be. The great folks in Engineering have done somthing about it, they shipped a new version! Flash MX 2004 (aka version 7.2) is now available for download!

Check it out! http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/downloads.html