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
active yourself, MX... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 11,976 |
Flash, Web Services, and
Data Binding 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 bindi... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 21,717 |
Take to the Skies... with
Captivate & Flash 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... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 16,188 |
Between a Rock and a
Soft(ware) Place 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 yo... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 11,336 Replies: 1 |
Fireworks-Animated GIF
with FreeHand Vector Art 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 c... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 30,511 |
Uncovering Fireworks
Masks 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 mask... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 14,750 |
Printing Rich Document
Formats with CFMX 7 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 HTM... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 18,124 Replies: 1 |
Creating Better Forms
Faster with ColdFusion MX
7 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-ba... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 29,279 Replies: 1 |
Calling All MX Developers 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 a... Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 13,979 |
Rolling Your Own Event
Gateway 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. Mar. 31, 2005 Reads: 15,946 |
About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds
I might have skipped some
of the new features of
Flash Player 10, but you
can always refer to the
official FAQ page. Visit
Plash Players 10 page on
Adobe Labs to dow
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 Inte