Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

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 [...]

Check out the Vodafone Welcome Tunes site, great usage of Flash audio & Flash video. It’s just as if these little persons are alive in my computer screen. Thanks to Owen van Dijk for passing on the link.

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 [...]

Record a free Flash Video Card, how appropriate for Christmas, at www.easycardz.com (Powered by Flash Communication Server).

Need I say more? We ALL love RIA!

Real picture of LostBoys office at this moment, in preparation of their Rich Internet Application event

Found a link to Floorplanner in my mailbox today (thanks Jeroen). Floorplanner is a nice example of efficient Flash usage to design the layout of rooms, offices and any other buildings (like creating your own meeting room layout when you book meeting space at a hotel).
Some more Floorplanner demos: Hotel New York, design your own floors and [...]

The WaterManager application allows you to virtually control the water heights in the river areas of the Netherlands. The goal is to give you an impression on how difficult this task is!
The way it works is based on the reality; this is how we keep our country ‘dry’. About 50% of The Netherlands would have been [...]

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 [...]

Nice to see how Microsoft uses Macromedia Flash Video to promote it’s new Office version for Apple’s Mac platform. Macromedia brings Microsoft and Apple together
Another nice Flash Video presentation linked to from Microsoft’s homepage is their Taste Of Tomorrow. Despite some reports on other weblogs and mailinglists, I am actually not convinced that these [...]