Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Flash MX Data Connection Kit and DevNet Resource Kit 3announced. No more words needed, it’s great!

Some of my fellow SEs in the states have opened their own weblog. It’s absolutely another Macromedia blog to put to your list. Compared to the Euro SEs, the SEs in the States are much more focussed on specific products whilst in Europe the SEs are more focussed on a specific country and therefor work [...]

CF Europe is around the corner! Don’t miss Ben Forta & Tim Buntel @ CF_EUROPE 2003, the second annual European Macromedia Developer Conference being held in London, UK on May 29th and 30th at the Olympia Conference Centre. From their email to me:
Following the enormous success of the first European Macromedia Developer Conference, CF_EUROPE brings [...]

Updated the RIA Event March 2003 presos page again. This time I added the preso J2EE App’s with ColdFusion and Flash presented by Ron Jonk and Wico Mulder from LogicaCMG. Again, this is a powerpoint preso turned into Flash using Macromedia Breeze. I did not make use of the additional Breeze features like annotation etc [...]

The RIA Event March 2003 presos page have been updated. I’ve added a link to the slides from the preso Managing the RIA Development Process presented by Simon Slooten from Prisma IT.

Announcing MAX - the 2003 Macromedia User Conference! This one is taking place November 18-21, 2003, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Keep those dates free in your agenda. You can help define the content for MAX 2003 by completing the MAX Survey and by suggesting a topic or speaker.

Macromedia Blogs DNS changed. If you are having trouble accessing weblogs from Mike Chambers, Christian Cantrell, John Dowdell or Mike Williams you are suffering from the DNS changes. The normal URLs should be up in a few hours or so, but in the meanwhile you can try these: http://207.44.198.22/mesh/, http://207.44.198.22/cantrell/weblog/, http://207.44.198.22/jd/ and http://207.44.198.22/mwilliams.

I’ve started uploading the slides used during the Developing Rich Internet Applications Seminar in March 2003. You can find them by following the RIA Event March 2003 link in the Seminar Source Files section.

Hosting FlashCom data applications has become cheaper since it’s new release. I am surprised that this has not been mentioned on any of the flash blogs yet. The reason why I say that hosting data applications on your Flash Communication Server MX 1.5 is cheaper, is the fact that we changed the license model significantly. [...]