Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Adobe MAX Europe is less than a month away, and we already have more than 100 registrations of designers and developers from Belgium and Netherlands. Whilst MAX is a great event to network across Europe and to meet experts from Adobe, it apparently also is a great opportunity to meet your local colleagues! So if [...]

I will be attending Adobe MAX Europe, which takes place in beautiful Barcelona, and will also present a session on Flex Builder 3. MAX Europe looks like one of the best conferences we’ve had in Europe since ages, I am really looking forward to learning a lot from all the European experts and the Adobe [...]

I’ve decided to update my blogsystem as I felt that the old blogman_v2 CFC didn’t meet todays blogging standards any longer (no trackbacks, no comment spam filtering, no trackbacks, no tags etc). I first refused to move away from this ColdFusion application because it’s the only serverside language I really know and thus could maintain. [...]

Adobe has had several products localized into Dutch in the past, at Macromedia this never was the case despite requests from users. One of the many good things of the Macromedia - Adobe merger is that we now plan to localize Dreamweaver into Dutch!
So, we are looking for native Dutch-speaking web developers that are interested [...]

We’ve posted the presentations of our Adobe Business Connect events online. This event was targeted at business managers and IT managers and included great case studies by customers (not all in English) in the Benelux region. I’ve posted direct links to RIA presentations below:

Slides Robeco on their product selector solution and why they choose Adobe [...]

JavaPolis 2006 is approaching quickly and like every year there will be a RadRace. This year a team of LogicaCMG will participate using Flex 2 as part of their development tools! Obviously this team is my favorite Last year they already won the encouragement award - or something like that - with Flex 2 [...]

Today Molblog announced that the Dutch SNS Bank will use Adobe Breeze for real-time online mortgage advice and sales. I am sure this will be one of the worlds first implementations of online mortage sales of this kind; it’s very close to the experience or a real-world meeting with your advisor, but without the hassle of [...]

This is fantastic, free wireless internet in 1st class of the train from Amsterdam to where I live. Since my trip takes about an hour and halve, this is great for my productivity (and pleasure). I’d never have thought to see this happen in my own country

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

I’m glad to report that I now officially work for Adobe. In The Netherlands the companies did not merge untill yesterday, so one month later than in the US and we only heard about our new roles today.
The old Macromedians moved into the Adobe office in Amsterdam and I got introduced to the new team. I’m really [...]