November 20, 2003
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (www.CWGC.org) web site was a complete success, a fact demonstrated by a few numbers. Over the course of one day, it receives 2.7 million hits from more than 12,000 users, who generate a traffic of almost 14 Gb. The intranet is also fully functional. It has been an honor for us to work such a high-profile government agency.
September 5, 2003
The TIMESCAPE application we've built for Taylormade UK as a tool for teaching English grammar is now being used by General Electric - Wind Energy / Salzbergen, Germany and the Bristol University. This is wonderful news for us because Timescape is a project very close to our hearts.
July 1, 2003
The Enterprise-level Rich Clients project is going so well that the customer decided for additional features. This means no holiday for us - again. The project now weights over 40,000 lines of code in 9 different modules and they use 120 different web service methods.
May 9, 2003
You may have noticed that the HTML version of the site is now done with PHP. If you're wondering why, it's because now the Flash and HTML versions of the site share the same XML datasource and the same images, making updates easier and requiring less disk space.
January 6, 2003
Our new Flash site is now online. Far from being just eyecandy, it features a full-blown XML rendering system that allows for rich and dynamic content, as all pages are just external XML files, loaded and parsed upon request, like in a web browser. The site is also resizable (not scalable), meaning that it will fit perfectly on screen regardless of screen resultion. Moreover, it features History Back/Forward buttons for easy navigation and even the ability to print formatted pages - with Print Preview. On top of all that, the Flash site engine and graphics weigh only 150Kb as opposed to 280Kb of the HTML version and many graphic files are shared between the versions. This was made possible by building our own optimized set of UI elements.
October 1, 2002
After four months of work, the Taylormade TIMESCAPE project is now online. In our client's words “Everyone just really likes it, the design, technique and everything. You and your team have really done a wonderful job and I am in no doubt that when such a product comes from the heart it will succeeed!” The project uses Flash and XML to deliver dynamic, interactive training courses. It is subscription-based and uses our User Authentication System.
March 12, 2002
As the utimate testimony that Macromedia Flash™ is a fast and reliable technology, we have created the first ever known chess game developed with Actionscript. The computer A.I. is written entirely in Actionscript using a highly optimized tree-based algorithm that can evaluate up to 25,000 possible moves per cycle. This means that it can “think” several steps ahead and anticipate your moves in order to choose the best action. This resulted in a new Macromedia Site of the Day Award!