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When I took over this publication last September, I stated that I wanted to eventually change the tone of the publication so that the articles did not seem like 'textbook' exercises. Instead, I wanted to take on a more pragmatic approach by showing how many businesses are using the Mac...
When the ColdFusion engineering team started planning ColdFusion MX 7, we finally had time to give the cfform tags some love. We talked to and heard from many customers and knew that we needed to do a cfform tag overhaul for HTML-based forms. We also knew that that if it was possible, ...
Most of us at one time or another have experienced the poor result of printing Web content from a browser. The page printout is ugly because the printer breaks the Web content into pages with borders and edges. Trying to fix the HTML code with style sheets and other layout tricks still...
It is not so much what is behind the mask that matters - just as Yeats so famously describes - as is what is revealed. This is certainly true of graphical masking techniques in general, and particularly in the case of Fireworks masks where you have so many options for hiding and reveal...
What do 'fantastic,' 'fabulous,' and 'fun' have in common? All three of these words describe the creative work you can do with Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand. The Macromedia MX2004 Studio 'Fab Three' together give you the tools to create art and animations for the web and other media. ...
Captivate came along at a time when I was in a 'tight spot' as a web developer. Imagine the words 'tight spot' said with all the ironic fret of George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill in the film 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' and you will begin to identify with my situation.
With increasing frequency, employees (called 'crewmembers') at JetBlue Airways are being asked to fulfill some of their training requirements online. The aviation industry is policy-intensive, and airline employees - everyone from flight attendants, to pilots, to customer service and g...
In Part One (MXDJ, vol. 3 issue 2) we looked at one of three different ways to consume a Web service, here we look at two other ways and some of the pros and cons of each approach. In this next example we'll explore using data binding in a different way from Pt. 1, by not relying on th...
If one of the true signs of a vibrant developer community is an active blogosphere surrounding a technology, then the MX suite of technologies certainly passes that test with flying colors. In case you're not yet active yourself, MXDJ brings you a comprehensive selection from some of t...
Event gateways are an exciting, new feature in Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 that arose from one simple idea: that there are many applications out there that aren't part of the Web and don't communicate through the HTTP protocol.