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Archive for 2006

I found 2 interesting websites with custom Flex components. This might help us a lot while learning Flex. I posted them on our CMDWiki as well. Just ActionScript and MXML (via WebXY) Teoti Graphix – Development & Design



This morning I finished the new and improved version of my installation guide for Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin and Ruby On Rails. I’ve put it online here (PDF). I hope it will be of some help to you. It’s based on a Windows environment and for now it’s available in Dutch. I will try to [...]



With a little help of Simon Paul from my class I got Ruby On Rails working as a module within my Apache setup. Finally RoR starts automatically and I’m no longer having to fight with the WEBrick server. With 2 little files, a Microsoft C++ installer and 1 line of code in the httpd.conf file, [...]



Today we go back to the year 1997. I bring you the ‘Practical Guide to Writing Clients and Servers’. In this guide HTML 1.0 and the advanced new HTML 1.1 will be made really easy. ‘Like many protocols, HTTP is constantly evolving. HTTP 1.1 has recently been defined, to address new needs and overcome shortcomings [...]



Adobe Flash 9 Public Alpha

November 29th, 2006  |  Comment now

The all new Flash 9 authoring tool from Adobe will be shipped in 2007 but they already released a public alpha version. It’s a very early version and the only new features exposed in the very early alpha preview are related to ActionScript 3.0 which was first released with the Flash Player 9. These include [...]



From now on I will try to post a little history every friday. Today i’ll send you to March the 3th of 1998. On this day, Stephen Straub, a member of the HTML writers guild placed a document called ‘Designing Web Sites for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland” online. In it he describes Java and [...]