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Web Services-Enabling a ColdFusion Application For those not familiar with web services, they are a way for servers to exchange messages with each other using XML standards. Despite the extreme hype, web services do not enable you to do anything that was not previously possibl... May. 18, 2005  Reads: 19,265

Uncovering Fireworks Masks: Masking with Bitmaps In last month's article I led off with the same quotation from Yeats. At the risk of seeming culturally challenged, I'll lead off with it again for the second treatment of how masks function in Fireworks, simply because it is so apt. May. 18, 2005  Reads: 20,763

Skinning the V2 ProgressBar Component, Part 1 This article explains how to completely change the graphical appearance of (i.e., 'to skin') the V2 ProgressBar component. Before we begin, a warning: the techniques described in this article apply to the ProgressBar and to many oth... May. 18, 2005  Reads: 22,537

Best Practices with CSS in Dreamweaver MX The increasing use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is changing the website design process. To meet the rising needs of CSS-conscious designers, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX includes many new and improved CSS-related features. With th... May. 26, 2005  Reads: 17,805  Replies: 1

The MX Blogosphere 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 actively blogging ... May. 18, 2005  Reads: 15,977

Macromedia Hits the Headlines It is wholly unprecedented in the (brief) history of blogging: with a $3.4 billion business deal in play, the Macromedia bloggers nonetheless remained determined to continue their commitment to avoiding a 'legal blackout' interfer... May. 18, 2005  Reads: 18,199

New Beginnings: Welcome to the Future! Business guru Tom Peters once wrote 'we need to embrace change; to welcome it; to transplant ourselves periodically.' Through change, we grow and avoid complacency or staleness. With change, we start on the proverbial Spring clean... May. 18, 2005  Reads: 28,413

Macromedia-Adobe: Bigness Sure Ain't Badness... In the world or architecture, as many of the designers among MX Developer's Journal's readership are well aware, there's a wonderfully erudite theory, with a equally wonderfully dumb name: Bigness. May. 18, 2005  Reads: 32,476  Replies: 2

One From the Vault: How I Rolled My Own Collision Detection Recently in a Shockwave3D project, I had some problems with the modelsUnderRay command. More precisely, modelsUnderRay seemed to have some problems of its own. Occasionally it just didn't give the correct result, it would miss a m... May. 18, 2005  Reads: 17,672  Replies: 2