What's up with resources for Flash Communication Server??

What the heck? Going through blogs lately you'd think that FCS pretty much disappeared off of MM's radar or something, they haven't posted a new resource, technote, tutorial or advertised ANYTHING for it for quite some time now. Neither have any of the other bloggers. Not only that, it's pretty much the only product that they DON'T have a link to on their home page...

Mike Chambers is hard at work pushing Central, Ben Forta is all over the place pushing Flex, FlashMX2004 is getting a lot of attention, lots of CF stuff... but NOTHING on FCS.. Do people know something I don't? Is it because FCS is in wonderland sitting at version 1 and a half? Yes thats 1 and 1/2. Looks different from 1.5 but it's the same thing. It's halfway from somewhere and halfway to nowhere as there hasn't been any notice whatsoever as to what is going on...

Well, if MM won't push it I will. This software is cool, and I really hope they don't discontinue it anytime soon... though with the lack of PR lately..

Here are some great resources on FCS. There aren't many and I will update this post as I find more, or if you have any that I have missed please feel free to post it, but here goes.

Biggest and newest on the list is:
Flashcomguru - This site currently has 16 tutorials on FCS with a lot more to come. I've written 4 of them with other top FCS developers out there like Fernando, Stefan, and not seen lately Gani. There is also a very active forum there for all that have questions or comments on FCS. Thanks to Stefan for putting this site up and supporting it.

Peldi.com - Everybody has heard of Peldi's site. The major FCS god out there in MM. He usually posts some great pieces of code that you can take advantage of in your own apps. The great thing is the other two gods of FCS in MM, Srivanias and Pritham also donate some great snippets or small apps that really help out.

Flashcom figgyleaf mailing list - A superb place to get info on FCS. There are a lot of people on this list that know what they are doing with FCS and most questions do not go unanswered on here. MM watches it too, so every once in a while they will pop in with some comments or help. Very appreciated.

Brian Lesser's site - Soon to get a book out (I haven't read it of course, but I would already fully recommend it. Brian is one of the most knowledgable people I have had the pleasure of arguing with on figgyleaf ;) Excellent skills with FCS

Fernando's site - A blog with snippets and components for FCS. What a wiz! He doesn't post so often but it's quality not quantity for him I think.

Last and pretty much least is MM's site. OK, it's not that bad :) although lack of new info and articles is quite disappointing but with any luck it's just that they are really busy with.... something... they don't even watch their own forum..

Posted by Graeme at January 23, 2004 01:30 PM