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Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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 n previous articles I've written about the power of integrating Flash and ColdFusion to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). In this paradigm Flash provides the user interface while ColdFusion is responsible for handling the business logic and sending data to Flash either through F...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 18,735 Replies: 1 |
 In part one of our article, we created a very basic Captivate movie. Now we'll enhance our project with some audio elements - narration, sound effects, and music.Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 29,235 Replies: 3 |
 Sailing, sailing over the bounding sea... Or in our case, inside a wine glass. We've all seen the ship-in-a-bottle knick-knack. Well, I'm here to show you how to set a sailboat afloat in a wine glass, using Fireworks MX or MX 2004, vector AND bitmap masks. Heave ho, matey, and don't fo...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 25,916 Replies: 1 |
 Web development is a changing industry. Technologies are born, thrive, and then die, while web developers experience a great stress helping their clients get an Internet presence. Nowadays, the buzz word in web development is 'dynamic.' Not 'dynamic' as in DHTML, but as in 'using a dat...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 19,250 Replies: 3 |
 Design patterns are standardized solutions to common programming problems. It's good to use design patterns for two simple reasons. First, it's faster (and many times better) to implement a time-tested design pattern as opposed to developing a custom solution. Second, collaboration wit...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 39,648 Replies: 1 |
 Using pictures to convey information is as old as man. We first used cave drawings to get a point across. The old saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is never truer when it comes to looking at spreadsheet data. Perhaps cave art was primitive man's way to consolidate a lot of i...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 27,150 Replies: 1 |
 It may only be a point release but that doesn't mean that Electric Rain, makers of the #1 3D modeling software tool for Flash animators hasn't come out swinging. What you'll find with this new release is a tight focus on the rendering options in Swift 3D.Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 26,500 Replies: 1 |
 Not long ago developers and IT professionals looked at Flash with disdain. The anti-Flash camp had contempt for its lack of accessibility, minimal standards compliance, and of course there was the infamous back button debacle. But things have changed. Large companies are embracing Flas...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 24,032 Replies: 1 |
 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. Don't forget that you can blog yourself now, too, under the MXDJ domain - just follow the blog-n...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 27,238 Replies: 2 |
 Did you ever stop and wonder what the Web might look like if there were no standards? I think it would be a web of confusion.Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 20,728 Replies: 2 |
 The can be very simple or very complicated. It all depends on what you're looking to do and how you want to authenticate your users. I wound up learning most of it on my own after getting an LDAP browser and snooping around in Active Directory for what I was looking for. To my surpris...Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 33,675 Replies: 3 |
Let me paint a hypothetical situation. There will never be another update of any software package again! All software companies feel they have gone as far as they can go! Ok, let me give you a chance to restore your heart rhythms. Each year I see a recurring situation. Software Company... Aug. 3, 2005 Reads: 17,527 Replies: 2 |
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. Don't forget that you can blog yourself now, too, under the MXDJ domain - just follow the blog-n... Jun. 27, 2005 Reads: 4,515 |
 Let me paint a hypothetical situation. There will never be another update of any software package again! All software companies feel they have gone as far as they can go!Jun. 27, 2005 Reads: 12,739 |
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