Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

I’m sure this is overwhelming when you did not anticipate it to happen; the Macromedia Flex 2 product line has been announced. It’s not just an upgrade, it’s much more than that;

A brand new, highly-optimized ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) embedded in Flash Player 8.5; including E4X, regular expressions, integrated event handling, runtime error reporting and binary sockets;
Flex Enterprise […]

Macromedia Flash Player 8 is here and packed with useful and innovative features for your Macromedia Flex Rich Internet Applications:

Performance and memory consumption are also significantly improved in the new player, and you will notice the improvement without changing a line of code or recompiling.
As a Flex developer, you will probably spot immediate opportunities to […]

Akzo Nobel - a giant in the health, chemical and paint industry - launched their new corporate website last week. It’s a Flex enabled site running on  Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, BizTalk Server 2004 and webservices and one of the largest deployments of it’s kind.
This is the first release of a platform that will help […]

Contact me if you want to work in a fulltime position for Macromedia Flex partners in The Netherlands (no freelancers). Obviously, you’ll need to have the relevant skills and experience. I’ll then forward your contact details to those that are looking for you

Ilya Devrs - an active contributor to FlexCoders - from CapGemini Netherlands has published an article ‘Rich Internet Applications as Service Consumers‘ in the September edition of Software Release Magazine and it’s now available online. For those of you interested, it’s a Dutch article
Ilya covers several of the technologies that are available to create Rich […]

It’s vacation time, so I finally had the opportunity to do some Flex coding again. Sorry for the lack of good posts lately, growing business has kept me from doing a lot of coding (I am currently focussing more on sales and business development).
Today I’ve been working with Martijn de Visser on customizing the header […]

The friends over at IterationTwo have released their open-source unit testing framework for Flex and named it FlexUnit. Go ahead, download it and give them your feedback!

So as you’ve probably read, Flex 1.5 has been released. Since I did not have a lot of time to play with the internal betas I am learning a huge amount of new stuff here at the MAX conference.
One of the small new improvements which I think is a beauty - and hard to find […]

Alistair of IterationTwo is presenting on the I2 experience in building Rich Internet Applications with Flex: Unit testing, refactoring, continuous integration and more.
09:15 Session starts, Ali is just in time (I guess he was at Matt his session as well ;-))
09:16 Ali warns his Scottish and that we need to remind him to speak slow (and […]

Matt Chotin is hosting the first official session of MAX 2004 on Flex and large data sets. He presents on the principles behind his large dataset applications that he has posted on his website.
Live log (I am not typing over the slides here, that would be too much):
08:00 Matt starts off with a powerpoint presentation […]