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 […]

… and that’s almost all I am allowed to say about it Steven Webster has written a nice post with some more personal insight.
Anyway, here is the ‘official’ line that I got from Lucian Beebe: “Macromedia is working on the ActionScript 2.0 versions of the Remoting components and a Remoting Connector component. They’ll be ready […]

It’s that time of the year again, the latest DevNet Resource Kit (volume 6) has been released! As always, there is something in it for everyone. What has changed is that this DRK is not available for individual purchase (like the previous 5 were), so you need to be a Macromedia DevNet subscriber to get access […]

Via Ben Forta: “The Macromedia Flash team has released two new Flash Wizards. The ‘Data Connection Wizard‘ simplifies the process of connecting back-end data (Web Services or XML) to a data set and data grid, setting up all the controls and bindings. The ‘DataGrid Column Editor‘ generates ActionScript code for datagrid manipulation and configuration. Both […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Finally, the Flash Communication Server MX authoring components have been updated to work with Flash MX 2004 on Windows (Macintosh will be released soon).
I did not find a description of what exactly has changed in this updater. Peldi, do you have some more information on this? The first conclusion I can take is that it […]