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Last December, Macromedia acquired eHelp Corporation, a San Diego-based software company offering an impressive set of tools that complements Macromedia products in very powerful ways. For MX developers, one of the most exciting additions is RoboDemo, an innovative tool with a surprisi...
From the people that brought you the V12 Database Engine and PDF Xtra comes Impressario: an Xtra for the manipulation of PDF documents. OK, so it's true that PDF Xtra already provides navigation and zooming features to Director, but Impressario is PDF Xtra Pro.
This is a very good time to be a Web application developer. Over the years we have moved from complex and proprietary methods of sharing data, to a more standardized and easy-to-implement method of exchanging simple or complex objects over the Web.
This past summer I decided that my courseware site needed a complete overhaul. It was, in fact, a bit of an embarrassment. As a teacher, writer, and lecturer I had been sticking my courseware and lectures notes up on a site that was designed more for convenience than anything else.
If you've only used FreeHand MX for Web-based applications, then it's time you learned about the broader world of print. FreeHand was originally designed to give artists a way to put drawings onto paper via the computer. Even though the program's scope has grown far beyond early expect...
You have children who want to play with your programs. Or, you're a jigsaw puzzle aficionado and want to share your own work. With Fireworks, you can create a puzzle with as little as two shapes, using them to 'cut' the rest of the pieces.
Approximately 10 years ago a new word started to appear in programming circles: objects. The theory was that little bits of code, doing a specialized job, could be prewritten and plugged into existing code as needed.
In this article I show you some of the tricks I've learned over the years and give you some ideas for how to better combine Flash and AuthorWare in your work. I start with the basics and move to the more cpmplex, and I cover some optimization techniques for speeding up flash playback.
Unless you've been living under a rock - at least a rock without high speed internet access - you've no doubt heard of Cascading Style sheets, or CSS. Over the next few months we'll be featuring articles on how to use Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Cascading Style Sheets to make your sites lo...
Central is important to developers for a number of reasons. First, Central provides an application framework with which you can sell the applications you make. You just have to add a few purchasing details to an XML file and edit a Web form. Additionally, the user is presented with inf...
If I promised to take you to see a foreign city, one where you were not fluent in the language, and didn't know your way around, and then actually flew you there to visit, would you wnat me to just drop you off in the center of town and leave you there?