As a creative professional or interactive developer, you'll be amazed at the exciting possibilities presented to you by the new features available in Flash 8; but as a busy designer, we know you won’t have as much time as you'd like to explore these new additions. Never fear—this book wastes no time looking at timeline basics,...

Iterating...

Hardening is the process of protecting a system against unknown threats. System administrators harden against that which they think could be a threat. Administrators know the Internet is a hostile environment. Although they can't tell, for example, that a hacker will attempt to gain access to the SQL server next Tuesday, they can bet...

We feel that many designers and architects lack an understanding of how to use Microsoft
technology to build and implement large enterprise solutions. Far too often we have found
architects shivering at the thought of building mission-critical systems based on this technology—
not because they have tried and...

The fourth edition of friends of ED's legendary beginner Flash...

XML is a completely platform agnostic data medium. Flash is able to make use of XML data, which is very useful when you are creating Rich Internet Applications – it allows you to populate Flash web interfaces with data from pretty much any source that supports XML as a data medium, be it databases, raw XML files, or more excitingly, .Net...