Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Finally, the Flash Communication Server MX authoring components have been updated to work with Flash MX 2004 on Windows (Macintosh will be released soon).
I did not find a description of what exactly has changed in this updater. Peldi, do you have some more information on this? The first conclusion I can take is that it [...]

Dr. Ir. Al Noor Ladhani has written another lengthy but very good article on the value of Rich Internet Applications named “Rich Internet Applications: van HTML naar Post HTML Technologie”  (sorry, only in Dutch). He uses some very detailed examples of what RIA can mean for a company. More importantly, he studies the differences between HTML [...]

Wow, I spent a few more minutes going through the Flash Video Templates and I have to admit that they are awesome! Especially the additional behaviors have my interest…
Most templates use the Media Component Behaviors extension, it’s defenitely something that you should download if you are working a lot with video presentations. Seek to Time [...]

Macromedia today released a new version of Flash Player 7, versioned 7,0,19,0. My auto update notification is set to check each 2 weeks, so I am not sure when it will prompt me to update. I’m not even sure whether I’ll wait for it to happen or whether I’ll just trigger the install myself This [...]

There is a lot of new Flash related information on the Macromedia site. First of all there is a new video exporter with updated Media Components available from the new Flash Video Resources section at DevNet. Then there is the Macromedia Flash Video Streaming Service announcement  and the new Flash Video Gallery. Somewhere hidden on the site, there’s [...]

In an internal email conversation Paul Gubbay - the man behind many data related features in Flash MX 2004 - explained to me that support for the SOAP protocol is not a Flash Player 7 only feature. I was not aware of this and I wonder how many of you are?
Of course, the documents mention [...]

DevNet subscribers already had access to DevNet Resource Kit 5, but non-subscribers now can also get it from the online store.

Haha, so I found this ‘great’ picture from myself setting by the fire posted at Community Vision.
Not exactly sure what I am doing there, but if I am correct this is at the bar of the Marriott hotel taken after the MAX party. Now who’s guilty of polluting the web like this?

I was browsing the Dreamweaver Exchange and noticed that the Dreamweaver team has updated many extensions that they have written in the past.
All of them have been updated to work with Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Fireworks MX 2004, and many also did get some small new features. Visit the Dreamweaver Exchange to download the newest [...]