'Macromedia is committed to providing best-of-class technology for building more effective end-user experiences,' said Macromedia's general manager David Mendels, as Macromedia and Mercury Interactive Corporation today here at MAX 2005 in Anaheim, CA, announced an agreement to integrat...

Flash Player 8.5, announced by Macromedia today, adds industrial strength programming power on top of the expressiveness already introduced in Flash Player 8, creating what the company calls 'a state-of-the-art, cross-platform runtime.' It includes a new virtual machine that offers fas...

With Macromedia Flex 1.5 you can build runtime shared libraries (RSLs) that can be individually loaded, cached, and used by multiple applications. This article demonstrates how easily you can integrate RSLs into your Flex applications. It also addresses the performance tradeoffs that y...

n previous articles I've written about the power of integrating Flash and ColdFusion to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). In this paradigm Flash provides the user interface while ColdFusion is responsible for handling the business logic and sending data to Flash either through F...

Using pictures to convey information is as old as man. We first used cave drawings to get a point across. The old saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is never truer when it comes to looking at spreadsheet data. Perhaps cave art was primitive man's way to consolidate a lot of i...