Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Fireworks for offline .SWF generation? Played around with Fireworks MX today, some nice new features and a better interface in general - it's amazing how just separating the Bitmap and Vector tools improves the usability. One of the interesting thing is the Data Driven Graphics Wizard, that allows you to take an XML file and generate images from it (replacing placeholders in a template with the xml data), check this tutorial for an overview. I'm sure with a bit of coding this technique could be used for generating static .swf's offline. [Flash Blog] 1:49:52 PM     JRun 4 released - includes Flash Remoting Good news for those who want to use Java for server side development - Flash remoting is built in and there's a whole host of new features in the latest version. [Flash Blog] 11:04:38 AM     Tacit knowledge and software usability. I spent some more time last night sorting out my friend Larry's weblog. He's a psychologist who specializes in Asperger's Syndrome. Larry's really interested in open-sourcing his ideas and would  be an ideal candidate to run a Radio Community Server that would be a knowledge exchange for the AS community. So I've been watching his experience with Radio very closely. ... [Jon's Radio] 11:01:54 AM     CSS Beyond the Browser: Going to Print. A List Apart: “You’ve seen them before: links that say ‘click here for printer-friendly version’ or words to that effect. Every time you follow one of those links, you load up a separate document that presents exactly the same information with a different layout, and probably different markup. That means somebody (or a script) had to take the original document and convert it to a stripped-down version that’s more suitable for print output. Maybe that somebody was even you.” [ranchero.com] 9:44:25 AM     Avoiding the trap of developing in a bubble. Builder.com: “As a network engineer and a software developer, I am amazed at the number of applications developed in a bubble—a near-perfect, sterile development environment that does not match the environment for which the application is being built.” [ranchero.com] 9:43:22 AM     The ABCs of CMS - Part III. evolt.org: “In this installment we will start getting to the meat of a CMS, designing for the workflow process. Covered will be article submission, allowing an author to preview and edit his or her own articles, and more workflow theory.” [ranchero.com] 9:42:05 AM     Managing Images with a Web Database Application. ONLamp.com: “Web developers often need to store images, sounds, movies, and documents in a database and deliver these to users. In this article, I’ll show you how to develop a simple Web database application that allows users to upload and retrieve images, but can easily be adapted to storing files of any type.” [ranchero.com] 9:41:04 AM

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