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Archive for January, 2005

Wakeup call!

  • Filed under: RIA
Friday
Jan 14,2005

Ever written yourselves a big ol’ flash application? Yeah it is indeed great fun to do. But did you ever have to write a script reference for it afterwards? Then you must have been thinking ‘hell, they should build something which could generate this stuff for me automatically’.

Well… you’re right. And there are indeed some document generators out there. But always room for more, and even more important, always room for better ones :)

So the people at AriaWare started a small petition to get the people over at Naturaldocs to make sure their generator will support Actionscript also.

You can help out with the ’cause’ by dropping a simple email to the people over at Naturaldocs. Read more about how and to who at FlashAnt.

Any ‘well done’ application build for flash which will make my developing days more productive gets my blessing :) And trust me, if not already, the day will come when you wish you had an app like this :)

Need a good flash RIA example?

  • Filed under: RIA
Tuesday
Jan 4,2005

Macromedia has a neat article about the deconstruction of a rich internet application. In this case, the application is their ‘video wall project’. The article itself is probably dated, but nonetheless very interesting to read. So for people who are looking for examples and tips on how to get stuff done…. get going.

The article gives good insight about what comes in to play when developing a RIA and shares some used techniques which I for one came across also in the field.