Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Macromedia announced three new products (why does this always happen whem I am busy doing seminars, so that I am late to post this news?)! Flash Communication Server MX 1.5, Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC 2002 and Macromedia Central. Check out the links to read more about them. I’m very excited about all products. [...]

Mike Chambers ‘winks’ at FlashForward. In response to my DRK 3 post, Mike posts that he can’t give any more specifics on it. But he also writes “Of course,

DRK Volume 3 Sneak Peak. Wow, I have no idea how long this has been on the site already. Macromedia published some of the anticipated highlights of DevNet Resource Kit Volume 3. From the text, one can conclude that it’s sceduled to be released in April. It’s great to see that ColdFusion MX developers will [...]

A quick note for everyone who visited the Developing .NET Applications with Dreamweaver MX seminar yesterday; I have put the presentation online (Dutch only). It’s converted to Flash and hosted using Macromedia Breeze and is the first in a series of experiments to offer these presentations online. I did not have the time to put [...]

I would like to start up a discussion on Rich Interfaces. We at Macromedia have been promotion them for quite some months now, and we see new RIA’s popping up every day, which is great. However, there is one thing that I think we all should try to promote a littlebit more; Fluent Interfaces.
Explanation: Almost [...]

I was playing with some ActionScript and noticed that the following code is usefull if you are building custom component inspectors or SWFwindows. I did not know that this was possible:
function doIt(){    getURL(”FlashApp:help/yourFolder/index.htm”)}

The Dutch province of Groningen has launched a Risk Assessment Application. The primary purpose of the product is to allow citizens to estimate the risk involved with installations (gas stations, chemical factories, etc.) in their living area, using the rich interface of an interactive topographical map. This Rich Internet Application is very intuitive with it’s [...]

If you are running Flash Remoting for .NET and have the Flash Pet Shop running on top of it, you have to change some of the Pet Store files when you installed the Flash Remoting Updater 1 for .NET, in order to get it working again. The team is currently writing a technote with technical [...]

I am sure that you already have noticed that we released a Flash Remoting updater for .NET and J2EE. According to Mike Chambers, there will be a Remoting update in the next ColdFusion updater as well. Even if you are a CF-Remoting user, you can benefit from the updated

I am not so good with SQL queries, especially not with advanced ones. When working in Dreamweaver I very often use the Microsoft Access query builder to put together somewhat more advanced queries than “SELECT * FROM myTable” (but don’t tell anyone!).
Yesterday I noticed that www.advancedextensions.com worked on a very good looking Advanced Query Wizard [...]