Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

This second part of the week I am at the Initiatives event in Liege, Belgium. We organized a Build a Rich Internet Application Contest and all participants are working very very hard on their RIA right now.
It really is interesting to see how different teams are approaching the same problem in different ways. The subject […]

Interesting…. Blogger API (link found at the Dutch ColdFusion Usergroup forum): An API for hooking into Blogger with other programs, interfaces, or environments.
I haven’t really had the time to look into the specs, but it looks like it works as a webservice. There are only a few methods available at the moment. The current ones […]

Macromedia today released the public beta of Flash Player 6 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Before you install it make sure that you have read the release notes to find out what’s new (there is an entire list of new stuff!). Also, there are prizes for Macromedia Flash Player Beta Testers!
At several blogs you’ll […]

Redesign my site to win 3 books at your choice! A have been thinking about improving the user experience of my site for quite some time. I know how to build web applications, but I am a very untalented designer.
That’s why I am calling for help by organising a little competition; you can sent in […]

I changed the page layout a littlebit. Moved the ‘about’ information to the top, contact details to the bottom and inserted the DesDev content summary using the DWTeam DesDev Feed extension for Dreamweaver MX.

I just found a nice tool named HaloScan to add comment-features to this blog. Thanks for mentioning it JD! It will save me some valuable time because just today I considered (again) to create my own blogtool. Now I have some more time left for the real fun stuff!
Anyway… feel free to sent in your […]

Macromedia MX contest at Initiatives, the business to business event in Liege/Luik, October 23, 24 and 25 2002: Macromedia Benelux organises the Macromedia MX Contest during the 17th edition of the Initiatives business to business event in Liege/Luik, October 23, 24 and 25.
The Macromedia MX Contest is the opportunity for you, professional web developer, to […]

Spike seems to be back on his blog after his book authoring adventure. He has written an interesting article on ColdFusion Components and variable scoping, encapsulation etc.

Just got back from a one week Sales Engineers training in San Francisco. I’ve been stuffed with lots of new information on JRun 4, J2EE, ColdFusion MX, Flash MX Remoting, Flash MX Communications Server, hooking all these things up and if been playing with many third party extensions for Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX. I […]

The guys at Rhinofly (Macromedia Partner) have made a very cool video which they posted on their blog. The technologies used are Flash MX, a video camera, Sorenson compression and a very cool racing circuit Even though it technically is a simple example, it really shows that a video can put lots of emotion […]