Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Need I say more? “We have no plans to provide future updates or product support for Windows Media Player for Mac,”

The guys at www.FlashFocus.nl have been hard at work to test each and every new feature in Flash 8 and Flash Player 8. They describe what they have uncovered in a series of articles. A great read for all Dutch Flashers.

Flash 8 Generic Review
Flash 8 Design Review
Flash 8 Developer Review

Want to see Flash Professional 8, Dreamweaver 8 or Studio 8 live in action? You are invited to join us at one of the Studio 8 Launch Seminars in Belgium and The Netherlands.
We’ve set up dedicated ‘focus’ sessions for Dreamweaver 8 (BE 25 August, NL 26 August) and Flash 8 (BE 1 September, NL 2 […]

See the press release. I never expected this potential mass penetration to happen so fast. This is great news for both the Flash world as well as for all mobile users. My only wish is that the manufactures will make the phones even faster anytime soon, so Macromedia can ship a Flash Player 7 based […]

Finally some news coming out of the Netherlands. I have to admit that did not post a lot lately, mainly because I am currently more focussed on sales and consultancy than on using Flex on a daily bases to do new experiments.
Anyway, we are hosting a great seminar for more experienced Flex developers (and advanced J2EE/.NET […]

Very cool recording by Moock: Kevin Lynch showing the next generation of the Flash Player at a Flash conference in Tokyo. Kevin demonstrated the run-time capability to render bitmap effects like drop shadow, glow, blur, color matrix, and bevel. Apparently there will be full ActionScript control of these effects at run-time, as well as full […]

I noticed that the Flashtival 2004 organisation published this year’s session descriptions and speaker bios.
The lineup looks great and is more international than ever with presenters as Owen van Dijk, Peter Elst, Peter Hall, Sander Kessels, Flashlevel, Ola Bergner, Hedwyg van Groenendaal, MediaMonks, Arjan Westerdiep, 24-7 Media and many more. This year I’ll be speaking on Flash […]

When pointing your mx:Model source to an XML file, Flex turns this XML into an object at runtime. The way you structure your XML defines how to approach the object equivalent of the XML node values. Especially when you have XML nodes that contain both attributes and inner text you might have some difficulties binding the inner text to […]

See http://webmessenger.msn.com. I gave it a quick try and even though it’s a nice initiative, this web application does not yet feel like the desktop application. You all know what I am going to say; this *begs* for a Flash interface
I have not looked into it, but since it’s fully build with HTML […]

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 […]