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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]