I recently finished another article for ColdFusion Developer’s Journal (September 2004 issue) that discusses the pros and cons of Flash Remoting and Web Services. This article was inspired by a development project at work where we re-wrote our portal in Flash over a six week period. Let me tell you what a huge [...]

This has nothing to do with anything technical but it’s definitely worth blogging. Our next door neighbors have a huge oak tree (I think it’s an oak) in their front yard. A few weeks ago we noticed some people looking up into it, pointing, and talking. I thought there were possibly owls, [...]

Many thanks to my buddy Brent Evans @ Holland Simpson for sending me a GMAIL invite. I signed up today and the interface is very Googlesque, minimal yet very intuitive. There’s even what appears to be push technology. When an email arrives, it’s pushed to the browser without having to manually refresh. [...]

This really isn’t a big deal as much as it is suprising. If you import your ActionScript class on “Layer 1″ and then make reference to it in “Layer 2″ it doesn’t work. Given, you should always reference your class in the same frame and layer it was imported on. But I [...]

As you’re most likely aware, the new MM V2 components are great but they are a bit bulky. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining because I use them all the time….but, they do introduce a good bit of overhead when using them in applications. So this is just a quick note you [...]