I'm not sure how long this one has been around, but I just ran across a nice little CF/Flash integration tutorial by Koosha Khajeh, a 17 year old Flash Developer. The tutorial entitled Creating a Client-Server Guest Book with Macromedia Flash and ColdFusion walks through building a CFC, creating a...
A U.K. developer has created FlashHack, a program that apparently allows you to execute SWF files on a Microsoft Smartphone. Software (docs are in the readme) at http://gamesforsmartphones.co.uk/flashhack.shtml.
It's nice to see the use of FlashPaper becoming more mainstream. Sharp is using FlashPaper in a product compatibility table at http://www.sharp3d.com/partners/NVIDIA.asp. This is a great example of embedding FlashPaper within a page (as opposed to the usual PDF take-over-the-page interface). Thanks...
Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School's online publication of business insight and commentary, recently spoke to Macromedia CEO Rob Burgess and CFO Betsey Nelson in Macromedia's San Francisco headquarters to explore where the company sees its opportunities and threats. The interview is now online...
About 9 months ago, I blogged an entry about The Wharton School portal being powered by ColdFusion (see http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=925). In that time, the folks at Wharton have been busy, and CFDJ is reporting that they just rolled out the 10th version of the site, looking...
Macromedia will be hosting a MX Conference in Taiwan on November 9-10, and it looks like I'll be attending. I have no details yet, but will post them as soon as they are available.
Australians Robin Hilliard, Andrew Muller, and Matt Voermanhave launched their new Macromedia Professional Services company, RocketBoots. And they are blogging at http://www.rocketboots.com.au/blog/.
"T-Mobile International and Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced a strategic partnership to bring more expressive multimedia and interactivity to handsets. As a result of the partnership, Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1 will power News Express, T-Mobile’s new mobile multimedia news service...
I meant to blog this yesterday, but forgot. So, in case you are one of the few who did not hear this yet, FlashPaper is now available as a standalone product. See http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashpaper/.
My FlashForward presentation went very well. I talked about the basics of using Flash for more than animation, Flash as a client to back-end processing. Demos, an overview of CFML, CFC basics, using the Flash Web Services and Remoting components, we went through it all, and the audience responded...