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Best brands of the world

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Monday
Mar 22,2004

A tool every designers needs someday in his career :). Logo’s of every brand you can imagine in EPS format. Read on..

The almost infinite list of logo’s in EPS format can be found at brandsoftheworld.com . Enjoy them while you can, cause i have a gut feeling they are constantly being harrassed by some sort of copyright holders..

Nielsen Rebels…

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Monday
Mar 22,2004

The usability ‘guru’ Nielsen isn’t admired by everyone in the ‘industry’. You either love him, or hate him, so it seems.

Although i still have to decide for myself if he is wrong or right, i do love to see someone criticising his ‘work’ and ideas. Read on ;)

Andrei Michael Herasimchuk has been writing some critical notes to mr. Nielsen. Since i enjoyed reading it, so might you over at designbyfire.com.

setup is running…*sigh*

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Wednesday
Mar 17,2004

At last I have my final setup up and running. My trusty old laptop will function as webserver. The rest of the things you need can be found in the rest of this post.

on the server side, you will need to get something that can talk to flash. I found a couple of alternatives like Flash Remoting.Net when you are using an .Net enabled server or ordinary Flash Remoting if you are using a coldfusion enabled server.

Since i couldn’t get both of them to work. I am going to use the open source PHP alternative AMFPHP which will probably work just as well as the ones mentioned above. If not….well we’ll just find out won’t we ;).

The next thing which is a must-have, is the newest version of the free Flash Remoting components provided by Macromedia. This will enable your flash authoring tool to talk to your webserver. If you need them, you can get them from the Macromedia site, or from this server.

Finally, the guys from amfphp gave a link to another set of small components ,which i haven’t yet discoverd the use for, but what the hey. Let’s get those too.

This should be all you need to start building your first Rich Internet Application……nice ;)