Wednesday, October 16, 2002

New Flash MX Content at Macromedia.com Lots of new Flash MX content and resources today at the Macromedia Designer and Developers Center: Character Animation with Macromedia Flash MX and Toon Boom Studio Creating Business Presentations in Macromedia Flash MX Advanced Drawing Methods in Macromedia Flash MX Logged-In : The Macromedia Anti-Piracy Program JD's Forum : What's the Fastest Way to Increase your Design Ability Tip of the Week : Squeeze your Video for Macromedia Flash MX Medeco's Cam Lock Selector: Small Company Sells Rich Internet Application Using Macromedia Flash Remoting MX with Macromedia ColdFusion MX Macromedia Flash Featured Community Site : FlashKit.com Make sure to check out the Advanced Drawing Methods article written by Ric Ewing. It has some really useful ActionScript libraries for using the drawing API. 11:57:35 AM    comment []  Google It!

Thursday, October 03, 2002

Flash and Unicode Resources OK. Things are a little slow today, so I thought I would put together a list of all of the Flash and Unicode resources I could find. Here is what I came up with: Macromedia Flash and Unicode Text Macromedia Flash : Unicode in Macromedia Flash MX Unicode Standard and Macromedia Flash Macromedia Flash : Working with Multiple Languages International Application : Engine Configurator Using Macromedia Flash MX as a multilingual authoring tool Unicode info at FlashBlog.net FlashKit : Getting Unicode into Flash MX If you know of any resources, articles or tutorials that I missed, please post them in the comments. 11:56:45 AM    comment []  Google It!

Monday, September 30, 2002

New Flash MX / Flash Remoting Case Study We have a new Macromedia Flash showcase / case study online today. This one discusses the Blackboard user management system. There are actually quite a few tutorials / articles on this application on the Designer and Developer center: Before and After : From HTML to Macromedia Flash Group Management Rich User Interface Implementation Designing Java Applications for Flash Remoting Blackboard Building Blocks : Real world Flash Remoting Implementation Lessons Learned : A Behind the Scenes Development Story You can find more info here, here and here. 2:19:17 PM    comment []  Google It!

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

New Flash MX Content at Macromedia.com Yes, its time once again for new content at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. This week brings a lot of new Flash MX Content. Creating your First Flash Communication Server Application : Giacomo Guilizzoni Creating a Macromedia Flash Component : Jonathan Kaye How to create Help files for Custom Components : Gunnay, Williams Developer Resource Kit Preview : Using The Stock Services Library : Mike Chambers Using Macromedia Flash for the Pocket PC to dial the Pocket PC Phone Edition : Phillip Torrone Flash Remoting Live Docs Using Macromedia Flash for Multilingual Authoring Tip of the Week : Connecting your Macromedia Flash MX forms to ColdFusion JD's Forum : A Step back can let you see where you are going : John Dowdell Tips for Deploying Video in Macromedia Flash MX : Tinic Uro One thing to note, is that we have made the Flash Remoting Documentation available under our livedocs system, which is similar to the PHP documentation at php.net. 12:04:06 AM    comment []  Google It!

Tuesday, July 09, 2002

Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center Lots of new Resource at macromedia.com today. Today we premier the Flash Communication Server Application Development center, and thus have tons of resources on using the new server. Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center Streaming Video into Macromedia Flash Use Cases for Media, Messaging and Collaboration Flash Communication Server Security Overview Flash Communication Server Security Checklist Using Flash Communication Server MX with Flash Remoting Flash Communication Server Coding Best Practices Macromedia Flash Communication and Audio Developing scalable Macromedia Flash Communication Server Applications Logged In : Which edition of Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX do I need? 1:28:27 AM    comment []  Google It!

Tuesday, July 02, 2002

New Mobile Development Center at Macromedia.com This week we are premiering the Mobile Development Center at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. That means there is tons of new content and resources at macromedia.com. Mobile Development Center Designer and Developer Tips Library Flash Extreme : The Pitter Patter of little Patterns : Branden Hall JD's Forum : Why you should care about devices : John Dowdell Logged In : The Future of Flash on Devices : Top Developers Selling Macromedia Flash Device Content to Clients : Phillip Torrone Flash Enabled : Flash Design and Development for Devices Chapter 5 : Understanding the Flash Application Development Workflow Macromedia MX Featured Community Site : PocketPCFlash.net Nokia Communicator, a Silver Brick of Gold : Glenn Thomas Developing for the Nokia 9200 Communicator : Chris Pelsor Creating Full-featured Macromedia Flash Apps for Pocket PC : Anthony Armenta Getting Started with Macromedia Flash on Pocket PC : Bill Perry Creating Apps for "Sometimes-connected" Devices : Mike Krisher 9:27:32 AM    comment []  Google It!

Wednesday, June 19, 2002

New Flash MX Resources at Macromedia.com In addition to the all of of content related to the Pet Market Blueprint application, we have also released a ton of additional Flash MX content and resources at the Macromedia Flash MX Application Development Center. I have included the Flash specific articles from the Pet Market Blueprint application center. Flash Extreme : Locking Down Flash MX : Branden Hall Extending components in Macromedia Flash MX : Greg Burch Pet Market Blueprint Application Center Designing Application Interfaces with Flash MX Smoothing Web Interaction Testing the Blueprint application for usability Jacob Nielsen Reviews Pet Market Flazoom.com Reviews Pet Market The Pet Market Back Button : Mike Chambers Petmarket Performance Benchmarks 2:02:43 AM    comment []  Google It!

Macromedia Blueprint Application Center : Pet Market Macromedia has released the Macromedia MX Pet Market Blueprint Application and Center. The Pet Market Blueprint application is an online store for a fictional pet retailer similar to the Java™ Pet Store released by Sun and the Microsoft .NET Pet Shop. Overview View the Pet Market Application Logged In : Introducing Pet Market JD's Forum : How Well does the Pet Market Blueprint Application work for you? Why Pet Market on Macromedia MX A Tour of the Petmarket Application The Server Side of Pet Market : Jeremy Allaire Behind the scenes of the Pet Market Blueprint Application Usability Designing Application Interface with Flash MX Smoothing Web Interaction Testing the Blueprint application for usability Jacob Nielsen Reviews Pet Market Flazoom.com Reviews Pet Market Development Process Process Map for ColdFusion and Macromedia Flash MX Quaility Assurance for Rich Internet Applications The Pet Market Back Button : Mike Chambers Petmarket Performance Benchmarks Check out the application and let us know you comments, questions and suggestions by posting them in the forum, or through the feedback form. 1:36:01 AM    comment []  Google It!