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Dreamweaver CS4 and PHP – an overview.

24. September 2008

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Dreamweaver CS4 and PHP – an overview.

I wanted to announce that I just released a 6 page article on Dreamweaver CS4 … concentrating on it’s PHP and database features.

You may or may not know that I’ve been a big advocate of PHP being a key skill that I think every web designer should learn. And so, it made sense to me to take a look at how the most popular web design software works with PHP.

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Beware of new technology

7. July 2008

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Beware of new technology

In the following podcast, I outline my reasons why it is dangerous to jump into any new technologies whether it be a new programming language a piece of software or hardware.

For those of you that are impatient – it comes down to two things:

  1. New technology typically is full of bugs.
  2. New technology may not last, leading you to a dead end.
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Actionscript 3 Evolution Video Tutorial

12. June 2008

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Actionscript 3 Evolution Video Tutorial

I’ve just released a great new Actionscript video tutorial that shows you a few things:

  • The differences between Actionscript 1, 2 and 3.
  • How to bind Actionscript to a button.

The main goal of this video is to show you the differences between the versions of Actionscript (with a simple to understand example) while showing the advantages of Actionscript 3.0.

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Book Review: Flexible Rails: Flex 3 On Rails

5. June 2008

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Book review by: Richard Mischook
Bottom Line
A well written guide to using Ruby on Rails with Adobe Flex to create rich internet applications.
My Motivation
Recently I was working on one of my pet projects – an application for managing data mapping during the analysis phase of enterprise integration projects. The details of the application are not really [...]

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Ajax Video Tutorials

4. June 2008

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We will be releasing a new set of Ajax videos very soon.
The new videos will deal less with the underlying Javascript constructs; instead we will be looking at some of the popular Ajax frameworks that are out there. Things like:

Scriptacoulous
Adobe’s Spry framework for Dreamweaver

Until the new videos come out, I invite to check out a [...]

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