I set up a forum for the Razor component framework. If you head over there, our dedicated team of helper monkeys will be ready to answer any questions you have. For the forum, click here. For more info, click here.

..until I find out what it is. But kudos to Aral for his viral marketing strategy

Flash crashes in Times Square.

I'll be walking the entire distance from my home to FlashForward Boston (a whole 15 minutes!). Lots of interesting lectures scheduled.. I'm especially looking forward to Chris Allen's Building red5 applications, Mario Klingemann's lecture on generative art, and of course Carlos Ulloa's Papervision lecture (sure to be packed), among others! Hope to see you there!

Not flash related, but if you have ten or fifteen minutes to yourself and haven't read it before, I highly recommend this short story by Isaac Asimov.

I've recently switched my default Flex Builder font to Consolas, and so far I'm really happy with it. To me, it seems a lot clearer to read than Courier. The only caveat is that you have to enable ClearType on windows or else it looks like crap (Display Settings -> Appearance tab -> Effects.. -> [...]

I went to my first Boston Flash Platform User Group (BFPUG) meeting last night. Met some interesting people whose names I've seen before. But now I have faces to put with those names. On August 23rd, Ted Patrick is flying in all the way from the Adobe mothership to give a talk on Flex.. so [...]

For Todd:

All this new functionality is a lot to take in at the moment, but I noticed something new about the DisplayObjectContainer class (which is inherited by MovieClip). In particular the addChild and removeChild methods which replace the traditional attachMovie. Does this mean that you can remove a movie clip from one target and place it [...]

With the upcoming release of Flash Player 8.5, I wonder if the Flash developer community will be able to unlock it's secrets before the Flash 9 alpha, just like they did with Flash player 8. Or did Macromedia go to the trouble of hiding or disabling the new AS3 goodness? Just a thought.