Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Good article by Cynergy Systems on what makes a good RIA development practice. Two things in the article actually got my attention - his ‘frustration’ about low priced programmers as well as the mention of the designer - developer workflow.
I’d like to start with quoting Dave his ending note, cause I could not summarize […]

We are looking for senior Flex and LiveCycle consultants to join our consulting team in EMEA (you’ll be based in the Benelux) and work on top projects for our major customers. For more information read our posting on Monsterboard and the Adobe Jobs website.

With the new blogsystem I also introduced SNAP into my site to give you all previews of a page when you rollover an external link. I had seen it on some other sites and somehow it felt convenient to me. However, I’ve read on the web that some people don’t like SNAP. Apparently because of […]

www.web20awards.nl, make sure you submit your Flex applications coming from The Netherlands
ps: they also have nominations for Best International Company as well as Best Internation App.

[via Serge Jespers] 3 renowned interactive agencies show you their latest Flex work. DAD, Nascom and Mediacatalyst will tell you why they chose Flex and how they convinced their clients, which difficulties they came across and how they fixed it.
During this session you will see front- and backend (with code samples) of 4 real […]

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam launched a really cool noise monitoring system a few months ago. See It was created with Flex 1.5 as a flexible dashboard with a huge amount of data. The purpose is to display current noise emission data from airplanes that are in the Schiphol area.
The application uses a number of […]

Awesome Flex-based portal for Belgacom TV in Belgium, www.belgacomtv.be. Created by www.DAD.be, subsidiary of LB Icon.
Highlights:

Portal look and feel (nice reference for enterprise customers that consider a next generation customizable portals)
Drag and drop of pods
Multi-lingual application
Rich User Interface
Nice calendar interface

It’s only the first release (they are planning several) and I am impressed with the speed at […]

The NOS, the Dutch TV news broadcasting organisation, celebrates 50 years of news broadcasts with an online archive of historic news video clips. Powered by a Flash Video interface, visitors can vote for their favorite news fragment.
The clips load very fast and this is a great showcase of how progressive downloads can be used for […]

I’m here at MAX 2005 with Martijn de Visser from LostBoys and Ralph Hauwert from Satama Interactive. Ralph finally has set up his own blog and will be blogging about all his Flash and Flex advantures from now on (I hope ;-)). Another great  Dutch developer sharing his knowledge!

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 […]