Last night, when I got home, I had a big box waiting on my porch ...

It is available now from Amazon and your local bookstore. Enjoy!

This week, I did a user group meeting on two exciting new technologies from Adobe - BrowserLab and Flash Catalyst. Briefly, BrowserLab is a new hosted service (meaning that it's an online tool hosted by Adobe) that allows you to test web pages in a variety of browsers that you may not have installed on your computer. Currently, it tests on Firefox 2 and 3 and IE 6 and 7 on XP, and Firefox 2 and 3 and Safari 3 on Mac. So as a Windows user running IE8 on Vista, I at last have a way to find out what my page looks like on IE 6 and on a Mac. Pretty cool.

Flash Catalyst is the newest tool in the Flash Platform. Catalyst allows you to take designs created in Photoshop or Illustrator and easily convert them to Flex-based Flash applications.

You can view the recording of the meeting if you want to get more information on either technology and to see my demos.

Because the Catalyst demos ended up taking longer than I had planned, we are going to continue the discussion about Catalyst at our August meeting. This session will also be recorded, and I'll post the details then.

Sorry, but I have been forced to turn on moderation for comments here. Nothing against any of the legitimate folks - it's the ***hole spammers who are, once again, ruining things for everyone else.

Rest assured that the only thing I'm going to be blocking is spam. I appreciate the back-and-forth that comes from comments - even the negative ones - so I won't be rejecting anything other than spam.