Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Today I found a Flash extension that was on my To Do list for a while: mySQL Panel. Unfortunately it only works for PHP and mySQL, but the idea is fantastic. You can almost compare it with the web services panel in Flash Pro or the Database panel in Dreamweaver; it allows you to introspect […]

Macromedia had a booth at the Dutch Microsoft Developers Days this year, of course I was there. Microsoft was keynoting Longhorn and the second keynote was about Avalon, presented by Lester Madden.
I have to say that they are doing some very interesting things, from what I have seen. Below I have written my findings on […]

Dutch insurance company FBTO has a rich internet application that allows you to compare the costs of your current insurance contract with one of their contracts.
It’s good to see that this concept is finally being picked up be several bigger Dutch companies. (Developed by Martin de Ruiter from Macromedia Alliance Partner ClockWork - also known from […]

Ben Forta has two articles on his weblog in which he posts some code examples of how Flex and ColdFusion can work together. The first one shows how a Flex application can consume a ColdFusion generated webservice in runtime, the second one shows how ColdFusion can be used to dynamically generate MXML which on it’s part is […]

The Dutch department of the World Nature Found has a nice video archive with stories from the field. WNF employees and popular Dutch tv personalities have been interviewed in front of the camera. Every week they have a featured story on their home page. It’s also more than just video; each story does have a photo slideshow […]

If you own a DV cam you probably have tried to make itself known to the Macromedia Flash Player. Macromedia could only test a limited number of cameras, most of which are webcams and not DV cams. I know from the FlashComm mailing list that some developers have had problems getting the DV cam video signals […]

Ben Forta will be in London later this month to sneak peek Macromedia Flex at the UK ColdFusion User Group meeting. I’ve heard that it’s going to be an interesting evening with possibly some good other speakers as well.
I searched for a cheap plain ticket and it’s even less than 50 euro from Eindhoven to London, so I now […]

I have created a new category in this blog named “Site Seeing”. It’ll be my place to dump links to nice websites from Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg. I’m not hunting for them, I just add them when I become aware of them and want to let others know about it. Besides that, it’ll be easy for […]

Vodafone started a Cell Phone Finder RIA back in July 2003, but now they see nearly all their competitors (actually all the major carriers) in Germany offering similar applications; T-Mobile and ePlus also created online ‘Handy Finders’ I’m sure most of you realize what these carriers have been inspired by?
Even though the T-Mobile app looks slick, I don’t find […]

A very interesting discussion on the Flash Components V2 architecture and how it is (not) documented for advanced developers that want to take the most out of this framework. There really are some good suggestions and documentation requests. Make sure to add your comments by sending them to FlashCoders; there are quite some Macromedians lurking and […]