Charles E. Brown

Business guru Tom Peters once wrote "we need to embrace change; to welcome it; to transplant ourselves periodically." Through change, we grow and avoid complacency or staleness. With change, we start on the proverbial Spring cleaning and make way for the new and exciting. This month, most certainly, Macromedia has forced us to change...and for that we should be grateful. With the merger of Macromedia and Adobe we are standing on the edge of the next generation of web design and development...WELCOME TO THE FUTURE. While I know I am going to get a ton of nasty e-mail about this, a... (more)

Categories and Other Sundries

In the October issue of this journal, we had a small error; John Bland's fine article entitled "A Little OOP, CF Style" ended up with the classification of Flash ActionScript. Unfortunately it was not caught until the edition was in print. However, when I reviewed the article, I was struck by the fact that many of the OOP concepts John discussed, while putting them in a ColdFusion contex... (more)

Review: Xcelsius from Infommersion

One thing was abundantly clear at the 2004 MAX conference in New Orleans: the third-party Flash market is growing rapidly. This is due to Macromedia's decision to provide APIs and open standards. The result of this decision is that the Flash developer will now have a virtual cornucopia of exciting new tools that will increase productivity and flexibility. One of the most interesting of th... (more)

Macromedia Studio 8 - An Overview

Since the introduction of Macromedia Studio in 2001, websites and applications have grown continuously in sophistication and importance, from communicating corporate brands to delivering mission-critical data and transactions. Technical, communication, and marketing requirements for websites are now coupled with support for industry standards and best practices. Studio continues its stro... (more)