Submissions close next Tuesday, June 30^th  for applications and ideas for the 2009 CAI competition in any of four categories:

• Flash – developers should submit their best applications that expand the capabilities of Flash Lite on Nokia devices.
• Internet Innovation – developers can submit either web applications known as Web Runtime widgets, or websites which are optimized for mobile browsing with Nokia devices.
• Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities – developers are encouraged to submit their most innovative application using Nokia platforms, ranging from SMS through Series 40 and S60 device platforms. All applications will be evaluated, including those developed using Java, Python or open source.
• Apps on Maps – In this category, developers can submit new ideas (completed apps are not necessary at this stage) that harness the power of location-aware services using Ovi Maps on Nokia devices.

All the details all the details and each category’s full description is online at: http://www.callingallinnovators.com/ .

Web guru and new media and modern publishing expert Derek Powazek, who believes "if you can consume media you can also create it," joins the speaker lineup at An Event Apart Chicago, October 13󈝺.

September 15, 2008—Chicago, IL—An Event Apart Chicago adds Derek Powazek to its lineup of leading-edge web design and development thinkers for the October 13󈝺 event created for people who make websites. Powazek, named one of the top 40 "Industry Influencers" of 2007 by Folio Magazine, is also known for co-founding JPG, the photography magazine that's made by its community, and is a co-founder of 8020 Publishing, the company that grew out of JPG's success. Derek joins the lineup of An Event Apart Chicago to present The Wisdom of Communities, where he will deliver practical tips and tricks on how to design and manage positive community participation on websites.

September 5, 2008—Boston, MA—The Flash on Tap Conference today announced four limited attendance all-day workshops for Flash designers and developers taking place October 7, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm in Boston at the Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. The workshops are offered prior to the start of the Flash on Tap Conference for those attendees who wish to add an all-day learning opportunity to their conference experience. The workshops: PaperVision3D led by John Grden and Andy Zupko; AS3 for Designers taught by Richard Shupe; Red5 presented by Dominick Accattato and Paul Gregoire; and Animation for Flash taught by leading Flash animator, Chris Georgenes, can be taken by conference attendees and those not attending the conference who wish to take an all-day class on one of the four subjects.

A late comer to ActionScript.org, by relative measures, dr_zeus is nonetheless an important part of the Moderator team, offering great up-front support and behind-the scene moderation to keep the community alive.

Chad, AKA Cota, is an integral part of the ActionScript.org Community who has been around a while, and always pulled his weight in terms of contributions.

Along with the other moderators, Chad makes the ActionScript.org Forums a safe place to play, and keeps people playing nice.

From the staff here at ActionScript.org, and on behalf of all of those who have benefited directly and indirectly from your help, thanks a lot Chad!

The latest release offers significantly improved data transfer speeds, support for Flash Player 9 SWFs as server-side applications and the ability to load and save text and binary files on your server, whilst maintaining backward compatibility with existing client and server applications published for version 1.0.x.