Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

If you like visiting Macromedia related events you’ll have a busy agenda the coming months. Many MX related events are going to be hosted in Belgium and Netherlands in September, October and November this year. Some of them are organised by Macromedia, others are sponsored by us and we’ll be simply attending events organised by […]

I forgot to blog about this earlier this week: DevNet Resource Kit Volume 8 (DRK is now available for download from your DevNet account.
I did not check any of the bits but the Dreamweaver File Upload Extension really cought my attention, and so did the Galleon Forums Sample Application for ColdFusion. There are also […]

During the meetings that I have with Flex MXML developers there are several questions that pop up regularly. One of the questions is how one can create a conditional interface element in Flex. Or even more specific; how to define with script whether f.e. something should be a list of checkboxes or a list of […]

Great new products announced: Macromedia Contribute 3, Macromedia FlashPaper 2 (now available as standalone product as well) and a complete new product named Macromedia Web Publishing System.
Note that you can already download preview trials of several of these products, cool stuff.

Since this week we are accepting submissions for this year’s MAX awards. Shameless copy-paste from the website:

This Macromedia-sponsored customer recognition program gives conference attendees the opportunity to meet face-to-face with award finalists and view live demonstrations of some of the top experiences built with Macromedia technology over the past year.
The top two finalists as […]

Nice to see how Microsoft uses Macromedia Flash Video to promote it’s new Office version for Apple’s Mac platform. Macromedia brings Microsoft and Apple together
Another nice Flash Video presentation linked to from Microsoft’s homepage is their Taste Of Tomorrow. Despite some reports on other weblogs and mailinglists, I am actually not convinced that these […]

Note to self and anyone else who is about to make the same mistake; if you have bound a Flex Data Model as DataProvider to a UI component, you must not change any items in that Model by approaching the item directly. The correct way to do so is by approaching the item through the […]

Just a reminder for Macromedia users from The Netherlands and Belgium; this week the user groups of your country are meeting! On Wednesday 14th the MX User Group Netherlands is meeting in Amsterdam and on Thursday 15th the MM User Group Belgium is meeting in Mechelen. Both user groups have a great agenda set up, […]

One of the cool things that got launched recently is a quite nice FlashCom driven application “Euro 2004 Flashback“. Check it out if you are a football - soccer - fan
ps: I’ve been overwhelmed by new customer contacts around Flex, Breeze and Flash Communication Server and have not had a lot of time to post […]