Another baton has come my way from the ever-pesky Stephanie Sullivan. (She's a great friend, and a pain in the @$$.)

So, I guess I'l get on with it:

Total Macromedia-branded swag in my possession:

• 8 t-shirts (one of my fav's being the "experience matters" shirt, because "innuendo matters" as well)


• Many, many pens of various types


• Many, many pins (small buttons with the logos of Macromedia products - I have 12 of them, I think)


• 3 notebooks (at any one time - they've changed over the last few years)


• 2 CD car visors


• 1 jacket (a light but very stylish jacket, perfect for winter in Phoenix)


• 1 courier bag that I now often take on short trips


• 1 CD case


• 1 three-ring binder


• 1 Power bar (long gone - my wife ate it, I think)


• 1 bottle of Hot Sauce


• 1 thermal coffee mug


• 1 black baseball cap


• 1 Attendee badge for MAX 2004 with ribbons glued to it for being a UG manager and a certified professional


• 1 bug-clip type thing for holding sunglasses in your car (clips to the afformementioned visor)


• 1 set of collectible trading cards about UI Components (handy reference, actually)

I had a frisbee once, too, but I gave it to the new user group manager.

Oldest Macromedia swag in your possession:

A completely generic, black Macromedia t-shirt I got at a seminar several years ago.

Last Macromedia swag you received:

Ummm ... let's see. I believe it was the thermal coffee mug.

Most Unusual Shwag:

You saw the list above, right? I'm going with the hot sauce.

Shwag you wear/use most often:

In winter, it's the jacket (which I love). The rest of the year, I'd say it's the long-sleeve black t-shirt with the logos down the left sleeve.

5 Favorite Macromedia swag items:

1) The jacket
2) The long-sleeve black t-shirt with the logos down the left sleeve
3) The "experience matters" t-shirt
4) The courier bag
5) The CD visors, because everyone laughs about it when they get into my car for the first time

What I wish I had:

A new gotoAndPlay() shirt. Mine got a small spot of bleach on it that makes it look like it's laundry day every time I wear it. As a result, I don't wear it much. Before the great bleaching mishap, it was my favorite shirt.

3 people I'm passing the baton to:

Steph always steals the best ones. I would have passed this on to Chris Georgenes myself if she hadn't already stolen the opportunity.

Hmmm ... OK, here goes.

* Scott Fegette
* Christian Cantrell
* "Sarge" Sargent (I hear he has a TON)

Since all these cats work for Macromedia, I'm betting their lists will be nice and long. Have fun guys!

Interactive Alchemy has just made its second offering to the open source world: an implementation of the MovieClipLoader class that is backwards compatible with Flash player 6.

It's called, not surprisingly, MovieClipLoader6.
Head on over to OSFlash to pick yourself up a copy. It uses the identical API as the original MovieClipLoader (loadClip, onLoadComplete, etc), so there is no learning curve at all if you've used the MovieClipLoader before. All you need to do is import the class and create a new MovieClipLoader6 object.

Download MovieClipLoader6 now!

Ahhhh ... it's nice to leave a lot of breathing room in a page design. With my site's new look, content is king and the HTMinimal design stays out of the way.

I just added a new version of DebugIt (my debugging tool for tracing data outside of Flash) to the OSFlash wikki, which means Interactive Alchemy has just released its first open source project. DebugIt is very simple and small, so it's the perfect starter project for our open source goals.

Right now, the download is still hosted on my site, but as soon as we can get the IA web site updated, everything will be hosted there.

This new version of DebugIt contains DebugIt Receiver, which displays any traced data outside of Flash so you can retrieve information while your application is running in its shell, and the Debug class, which is a static class containing one method: write(). So instead of usting trace(), call Debug.write() and pass it as many parameters as you want. The requested data traces to the Output panel in Flash, and displays in DebugIt Receiver.

Anyway, check it out!