Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

FlashFreaks and Macromedia silently announced Flashtival 2003. Flashtival 2003 will be a one-day, Dutch, exploratory and educational conference, fully related to Macromedia Flash and Rich Internet Application Development. This third Flashtival is organized by Macromedia and FlashFreaks, the targetted date is September 25th or 26th and the location will be the RAI in Amsterdam, The […]

FlashFreaks, my favorite Dutch Flash community site has gone through an upgrade. They have a new site design and have upgraded their CMS (from Dynamic Zones) to the latest release. All Dutch flashers emailing me for help, please visit www.FlashFreaks.nl to get better help faster

Flash MX and Director MX integration: I was reading through the comments archive when I found a comment from Aldo Hoeben. He posts a link to a Director and Flash integration demo (click the MX image in the iframe, besides “Jeremy Allaire lectures on MX”). He integrated the Jeremy Allaire on Rich Internet Preso, […]

New seminar: “Mac OS MX” organized by Apple Benelux and Macromedia Benelux. Join us on July the 9th to experience the power of developing Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia MX on Mac OS X. For the agenda and registration visit our Dutch events page.

I found this great actionscript class component: ATOMGAS FRSTreeClass. This cool AS class saved me lots of time; I was working on an application that grabs data from a database table with parent-child columns and I wanted to display that data in a nice Tree interface. Unfortunately the .setDataProvider() method of the FTree component did […]

I read that the Dutch Finalist IT Group has presented at JavaONE about Java and Flash intergration. They have an nice whitepaper in Dutch on their website that talks about the concept of developing a dynamic, multi-langual website based on Flash and Java. It’s good to read if you are a Java developer and would […]

Flash Communication Server MX and RTMP Data Flow Rules, it it something that pops up regularly on mailinglists and in discussions that I have with customers. Pritham Shetty from Macromedia posted some very good information about these Data Flow Rules on the Flashcomm mailinglist. I thought it would be usefull to repeat it here:
Some background […]

Developing Flash for Playstation 2 consoles, it seems to be something that lots of people are interested in lately. Within the last 2 months I received more than 4 emails with questions about it (whilst I never received this queston before). It looks like there is not much information available on how to access the […]

Holidays are coming, time to study? In the past, before I joined Macromedia, I had some more time during the holiday season compared to the rest of the year. Simply because university was closed, customers called less and because less projects had to be started or finished.
Very often I used this period to specialise myself […]

Cool news: Macromedia Coldfusion Mx Now “Java Verified” For Portability Across J2ee Application Servers.