As part of my Serving Word presentation I created a Multi-part MIME CFC. The component facilitates generation of Multi-part MIME messages. With the component creating complex messages is as simple as a few component calls.
#msg.getMessage()#
In Serving Word I demonstrate how you can use a combination of HTML, XML, and CSS to dynamically generate MS Word documents on the server. The PowerPoint presentation, over 2,000 lines of example code, and a Breeze presentation are available here.
Michael Dinowitz from House of Fusion is co-sponsoring a Windows port of a visual Regular Expression editor. The screen shot looks promising.
Anyone interested in RegExp should check it out. I’ll post again here when it’s released. For now, they’re still looking for a few more sponsors. If you can help, contact document.write(‘‘);Michael Dinowitz
[picked up from Todd Rafferty's blog]
Macromedia announced Breeze Live at FFNY.
This looks like a very nice product, cleaner and easier to use than others in the market. Major features from my perspective were the ease of doing on-the-fly changes to slide presentations, ability to queue up slides and have co-presenters doing background queuing and organization.
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The question of plotting a line graph with thousands of data points came up again today. This always puzzled me; if your chart is only 500 pixels wide, why would you try to draw a chart with 1000 points? It would leave only half a pixel for each point. Flash is kewl but it won’t render half pixels and even if it did, rendering 1000 lines in Flash is a little slow.
