Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

I’m not sure whether I simply missed the announcement because I was at our annual company meeting, or whether it’s been released recently; Macromedia DevNet Resource Kit Volume 7 (also known as DRK 7) is available to DevNet Subscribers.
There are new components for Flash MX 2004: SQL Server Components, ActionScript data Validation libraries and a FlashHelp components.
For ColdFusion MX […]

Libby Freligh - senior product manager for Flex - mentions on the FlexCoders mailing list that some charting components for Flex are currently in beta. They are looking for some good beta testers. If you have time to test, give feedback and if you do have a running version of Flex you can apply to be […]

Sven Claar from the German MX User Group has created a very cool Flex Class Library Reference Poster. It’s just a part of the class library and Sven is currently working on more posters with the rest of the classes (that must take him a lot of time). Looks like I need to free some space on the […]

Today was my first day that I was actually hosting a Breeze Live meeting ‘for real’ instead of doing the sales pitch demo. It’s was great, very productive and saved me more than 3 hours of travelling by car. I am defenitely going to do this more often.
The most time consuming part of my job at […]

So by now we all know that Flex is a java application that runs on a J2EE server (and yes, dotNet is being worked on indeed, see the Flex roadmap).
The configuration of a Flex application instance is defined in flex-config.xml and it allows you to turn on f.e. debugging features and to define security settings of […]

I’ve spend quite some time during the last few months to do Macromedia Flex development. It’s about time to blog about it.
Learning MXML and the Flex API is an interesting experience, it feels like a mix of going back to the first days of learning HTML (”what was that tag exactly?”), learning the DOM like I used to […]

Nice usage of Flash video by Volvo. The rest of this promo site is great as well, it really creates a good user experience. Unfortunately I have no idea who developed this (please contact me if you know who did). [via www.digcult.nl]
The quality of the small movie that plays first is not that great, but click […]

I have made the Dutch presentation that we used for the seminer “Beginnen met CSS en Dreamweaver” available as a Macromedia Breeze presentation with a little questionnaire at the end. Just register as a new user to get access to the presentation. The english version will follow soon.

A short note to all visitors of this week’s Getting Started with CSS and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 seminars; the presentation will most likely not be posted here before the weekend. Please make sure that you check back later