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Flash Catalyst Beta 1 [Top Branch Demo Part 2]

By Garth Braithwaite
May 28, 2009

In the second half of this two part screencast I demonstrate some of the more advanced features of Flash Catalyst Beta 1. Specifically I show how to import images and artwork into an existing project, how to create a data list component, and how to import and export a fxpl library.

The big fish swallow the little fish: Adobe's FXG and MicroSoft's OOXML

By Rick Jelliffe
May 6, 2009

Adobe's FXG seems to be to PSD what OOXML is to .DOC: a re-factoring of a middle-aged binary format in XML with a focus on fidelity rather than elegance. My working model is that we need to think of the de-proprietarization of market-dominating technologies in the intensely pragmatic model of a sequence of bigger fish swallowing smaller fish: a sequence of consolidation of dialects, modularization of parts, then adoption into pluralistic frameworks and Adaptability Standards, allowing user selection of winning mini-technologies. Each stage of which will take at least a major software release cycle.

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