This is the blog of Dan Thomas, Web Developer, Flash Developer, Business Owner, Sunny Bournemouth Resident
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Published on 01 May 2007 by DannyT
RIA giants Cynergy Systems have announced they are creating a practice dedicated to RIA development using Silverlight. I think this is a very sound move for Cynergy and one of the few I’ve seen who have managed disassociate themselves from an emotional tie to Adobe technologies and embrace alt
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Published on 01 May 2007 by DannyT
Okay I’m well behind on posts at the moment. I have some posts on the remainder of the Expression Course almost ready, I’m hoping to write some stuff on the CS3 launch and also comments on the events at Mix07. Unfortunately I’m hella busy right now so falling mad behind. Anyway, ex
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Published on 17 Apr 2007 by DannyT
Okay so it’s time to get our hands dirty and actually play with one of the tools: Expression Web! To be honest this was kind of an anti-climax for me. Expression Web is a good HTML editor. That’s about it. I’d go so far as to say a very good HTML editor if you do design [...]
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Published on 17 Apr 2007 by DannyT
We started the day with a few presentations by Jon Harris and Andrew Shorten on what the Expression offering is all about, where it has come from and where things are headed. This was good and it was refreshing to see a Microsoft presentation pressing all the right buttons in terms of user experienc
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Published on 17 Apr 2007 by DannyT
This week I am on a training course titled “Creating engaging user experiences with Microsoft Expression” “Delivering Rich Online Experiences Using Miscrosoft Expression, ASP.Net, AJAX and WPF” (edit: surprisingly I couldn’t remeber the exact title without the material
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Published on 05 Apr 2007 by DannyT
This is a great example of community driven resources: David Rorex’s AS3 Tip of the Day Apollo App This app provides you with a simple interface for working through a set of posts on Kirupa by Senocular who’s written some excellent stuff for learning AS3. It removes all the ‘noise&
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Published on 02 Apr 2007 by DannyT
I was just having a conversation with Ryan (through the medium of geek - aka twitter and blog comments) and we established a concept of “enterprise widgets”. It’s not really a new concept rather than a different outlook on the “widget” concept. It is also something that
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Published on 29 Mar 2007 by DannyT
Aral has just launched a new open source data exchange format for Flash. Its amazingly simple to implement and looks like it could be an excellent option for getting data natively into flash. Whilst it’s still only very early alpha and needs some testing and optimizing, things look very promis
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Published on 23 Feb 2007 by DannyT
Last night I presented my “Apollo: The Unofficial WTF” at the LFPUG in London. I presented after Alias who did a presentation on procedural bitmap effects. Alias was relaxed and gave a great and interesting presentation with some stunning examples and work he’s been doing. My prese
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Published on 21 Feb 2007 by DannyT
My good friend and fellow Bristolian Neil Webb has just had an article published on the Adobe Flex Developer Centre. If you’ve heard of unit testing and test driven development and want to know what it’s all about head on over and have a read. Unit testing and Test Driven Development (TD
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Published on 18 May 2007 by DannyT
I’ve been tasked with planning a real (as in get a load of people together) forumfocus group (edit: I think focus group is a better term than forum) for assessing the usability of a website. I’ve always wanted to do such an excercise but to date none of the projects i’ve worked on
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Published on 09 Jun 2007 by DannyT
My good friend Neil Webb has recently re-vamped his blog and has been posting some excellent Flex2 and AS3 thoughts, examples and tutorials. Check him out at http://nwebb.co.uk/blog, he’s written many articles for Actionscript.org, helped loads out on their and other forums and contributed to
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Published on 17 Jun 2007 by DannyT
In a recent conversation with Neil the significance of database access in ActionScript dawned on me. Whilst this feature has undoubtedly been driven by requests from those with previous experience of databases, there must be a huge amount of Flash/Flex devs who’ve never had to worry themselves
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Published on 23 Jun 2007 by DannyT
As mentioned in my last post I want to explain to the un-database-initiated what a database in AIR is and how it differs to other databases you might have heard of or experienced. Database Support In AIR Adobe have recently added support for databases in AIR through support of SQLite. From the SQLit
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Published on 12 Jul 2007 by DannyT
After my initial enthusiasms about Silverlight along came proper work and other such distractions and I somewhat halted my research. However I’m doing a brief presentation on it at a new tech user group in Southampton (12th July) and so thought best to brush up on the latest - nothing like las
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Published on 27 Jul 2007 by DannyT
Scott Guthrie just announced the next beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5, this is a big release and details some great new features. Check out his blog postd and give it a try. I have been playing with the beta1 and Silverlight and am thoroughly impressed see my findings here and i’ll be
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Published on 27 Jul 2007 by DannyT
Aparently there are still some people after pownce invites, if so I have 12 so leave a comment and i’ll send you one.
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Published on 18 Aug 2007 by DannyT
I’ve just setup a very simple backup system that works over FTP. Windows only I’m afraid but i’m sure the equivilent isn’t too hard on other platforms. Tools Firstly I used two very simple free/open source command line tools: SSLFTP - simple FTP tool that works in passive mod
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Published on 18 Aug 2007 by DannyT
Continuing from my previous post on learning Silverlight (sorry for the VERY long delay i’ve been very busy lately)… 5 - The tools (cont) Okay so downloads required were as follows: Silverlight Runtime .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio Orcas Visual Studio 2008 (in the time its taken me to
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Published on 18 Aug 2007 by DannyT
Just taking a look at the Visual Studio 2008 Express editions… Tacky Alert Not sure why but this takes me back to 1990’s under construction pages with a bit of web 2.0 reflection… tasty!
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Published on 19 Aug 2007 by DannyT
Continuing from my previous post on learning Silverlight (sorry for the VERY long delay i’ve been very busy lately)… 5 - The tools (cont) Okay so downloads required were as follows: Silverlight Runtime .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio Orcas Visual Web Developer 2008 - due to the massive
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Published on 26 Sep 2007 by DannyT
Just another quick reference (doing some house keep) in case I or anyone else wants to investigate developing Vista Gadgets. I saw some that Splendid have done which are pretty neat, this triggered my inititial interest but haven’t found the time since. Edit: Whoops the actual link - Thanks Pe
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Published on 26 Sep 2007 by DannyT
Nothing much to see here, just something I’m always forgetting the syntax for as I am often switching between SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. I needed to implement an incrementing numeric field for a “reportOrder” field, couldn’t rely on the primary key because I will later be
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Published on 30 Sep 2007 by DannyT
As anyone who regularly reads this blog will know, I’ve been looking into Silverlight of late. Nothing commercial as yet, just to fulfill my own geeky interests (if anyone is looking for Silverlight development get in touch). Throughout this experimentation and research I’ve also discuss
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Published on 23 Oct 2007 by DannyT
So today was the last day to get tickets for Flash On The Beach 2007 I was signed up to the newsletter, got sent an email about how ticket sales are coming to an end, read through the site, got sucked in and now have tickets! Looks like the hype and website worked on me! [...]
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