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 13–14.

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 13–14 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.

Red Penguin is one of our longest standing members, and a great example of the cycle that we hope ActionScript.org creates; learn from others, get amazingly good, teach others :)

Thanks for your efforts over the years mate. We really appreciate your time and insights!

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.