Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Builder.com has in interesting article on Model-View-Control Design Patterns. It discusses how it works and why you should MVC. For everyone not familiar with it; “MVC is a design pattern that enforces the separation between the input, processing, and output of an application” and “….the MVC pattern can open up new levels of robustness, code [...]

I love the Reference Book functionality in all our products, simply because it’s easy access to lots of usefull information. Every time I work with a technology I have a look at whether there is a Reference Book extension available. And if it’s not available by default there is a small chance that someone has [...]

I posted a componentized version of the Trio Navigation Menu (see it in action)that you see in lots of the presentations given by me and which is being used in several of the DesDev tutorials. I showed this component during my session From Static to Dynamic Interfaces and people keep asking me for the source [...]

Finally it’s there: IntelliCART MX, the PHP Shopping Cart Management Solution for Dreamweaver MX! Indeed, Tim Green has done it again! I have been one of the lucky few to see a preview of this extension at Macromedia’s ‘Creating PHP Applications with Dreamweaver MX’ seminar in September, and all I can say is that it [...]

Arul is working on a very very cool Flash application: Reference XML Viewer. It is a Flash movie that mimics the Flash MX Reference Panel. Maybe you think, what’s so interesting about it? Here are my crazy thoughts……
To be honest I think the Reference Panel of Flash MX is much nicer than the Reference Panel [...]

As I already mentioned, several Macromedia Community Managers are blogging live from DevCon. Jeremy Allaire also build an application that allows them to quickly record and upload videos using Macromedia Flash Communications Server MX. Jeremy kindly made a webservice for me so now I can show you all which videos are available at the moment. [...]

The Dutch ColdFusion Usergroup is visiting DevCon this week. If you - like me - are not able to attend DevCon you defenitely should read their Dutch DevCon Weblog. I heard that the Macromedia Community Managers and several other blogs will cover DevCon in detail too, it’s gonna be an exciting week!

I keep getting lots of requests for the source files of my session ‘From Static to Dynamic Interfaces’. I have done this session at several events in the Benelux and it seems that this information is exactly what people need. So, below is the list of downloads. Keep in mind that these files have been [...]

Today we announced the winners of the Build a Rich Internet Application Contest. We asked all participants to do a quick demonstration of the conceptual demo that they have build in only 10 hours. I really was positively surprised that it’s possible to create a very good RIA Demo in such a short time. This [...]

Have you already seen the latest ’splash page’ (if that is the correct name for it) at Macromedia.com? It has lots of demo questions for Macromedia’s Certification Program in it. I advice you to try them all to find out whether your skills are good enough to do the real Certification Exams (to get Certified!) [...]