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November 2008 Archives
In my first blog, I'd like to start with a question to the community. A freelance developer does a lot of interviewing. In one form or another, you have to make contact with prospective clients and convince them you're the...
The main event of this week was the Adobe Max 2008 conference in San Francisco. Adobe made clear at this conference that the RIA landscape is an essential part of their plan for the future. This week saw the release of a tool to run C code in the Flash Player, Thermo gets an official name, ColdFusion 9 details are revealed, Flex Builder 4 details are released, and Adobe offered interactiviy in the cloud with Cocomo. All this and more on the Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.
Last week was Adobe MAX North America, and along with MAX came a stream of product announcements. So, this week I would like to know what announcement will effect you the most in your daily development or design job? These...
Flash Player's display API offers three different tools for hiding display
objects from the screen: the visible variable, the
alpha variable, and the removeChild() method. All
three tools achieve the same end result—hiding a graphic—but each tool serves
a different structural need. Hence, there is no single answer to the question
"Should I hide graphics with visible, alpha, or
removeChild()?" Instead,
developers must choose the approach that suits the task at hand based on a
variety of factors. Before we consider those factors, let's take a look at
visible, alpha, and removeChild() in
action.
Great news! Google announced today at MAX that the Google Maps API for Flash now supports AIR.
The first bits of ColdFusion information appeared on Adobe Labs this morning. This is certainly exciting for ColdFusion developers as Adobe has finally given information not only on the next version of ColdFusion, but also announced the much anticipated official ColdFusion IDE.
The ADO.NET Data Services client library for Silverlight makes calling RESTful services exposed by ADO.NET Data Services easy. It allows request sot be made as either URis over HTTP requests or LINQ queries from Silverlight.
This week is the annual Adobe Max conference which is being held in San Francisco. We will spend some time looking at what we expect to be announced as this conference as well as covering the Channel 9 Continuum, Silverlight styling with Expression Blend 2, the new Dojo extensions for Adobe AIR, and the future of ExtJS. All this and more on the Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.
Calling All RIA Developers: O'Reilly Media's Head First Division is working on some interesting projects, and seeks an experienced RIA developer to help as we create online experiences related to our books using HTML + Javascript and Flash for the...
In addition to many of the bigger announcements that have already been unveiled at Max 2008, Serge Jespers announced a new Flex application that was developed by the evangelism team to showcase Flex and AIR functionality. This application is named, 'Tour De Flex'. In addition to the AIR application, there is also an Eclipse plug-in that enables you to search through the over 200 examples included in Tour De Flex.
Author's note: Pivot has moved since this article was written. The new location is http://incubator.apache.org/pivot. Pivot is a platform for building rich internet applications that run in the Java Plugin. While Pivot applications are often built using a combination of...
Even though I couldn't make it to MAX this year. A special MAX edition of FotoBooth has made the trip and is installed and running in the community lounge. This version is based on the AIR 1.5 runtime and includes...
MAX has come and some have a slew of announcements from Adobe. This post includes new information on the following products:
Adobe® Flash Catalyst™ previously code named Thermo
Adobe Flex® Builder™ "Gumbo"
Adobe® AIR™ 1.5
Adobe® Flash® Player 10 for 64-bit Linux
Adobe® Flash® Player for Smartphones.
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook--New from O'Reilly Solutions and Practical Examples from Rich Internet Application Developers Sebastopol, CA--Buzz continues to build over the release of Adobe AIR 1.5. And O'Reilly's latest, "Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook ($44.99)--the first book available on Adobe...
This will be the first year InsideRIA's been around to cover the Adobe MAX conference. The bad news is that Rich Tretola won't be with us at MAX. That said, we'll miss him, and do what we can to soldier...
Well, unfortunately due to some family medical circumstances I will be missing MAX next week. I would like to publicly thank Danny Dura who will be giving my session titled "Introduction to Adobe AIR: Building Your First Application" and Andre...
Redmond Developer News posted an interview with Brad Becker formally the Lead Designer for Adobe FlexBuilder and now Director of Rich Client Platforms for Microsoft. In the interview Becker frequently refers to Flash as a wonderful platform for creating cartoons but not much else.
In this entry, I give you a list of my favorite Flex related presentations being given at the Adobe MAX conference this year, and a short description of why I think you should attend each and every one of them. :) Not attending MAX? Don't worry - they'll be available online sometime shortly after the conference is over.
MAX 2008 is upon us. Last year I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to contribute to the MAX Award winning application eBay Desktop while working at EffectiveUI. This year I had the privilege to work with NASDAQ's team on NASDAQ Market Replay version 2 as a Universal Mind consultant.
Please take a minute to check out Market Replay and remember to vote for early and often for Market Replay in the people's choice award category.
Please take a minute to check out Market Replay and remember to vote for early and often for Market Replay in the people's choice award category.
Ciao to everyone, my name is Alessandro Pace, if you want to know more about me here a short bio. My expertise is Flash Lite for mobile phones, been developing mobile content for the past 4 years using this mobile...
This week saw some light at the end of the tunnel for JavaFX developers, more information about Silverlight moving outside of the browser, a glimpse into the future of SproutCore, some great AIR applications, and Flash Lite moving toward a billion devices. All this and more on the Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.
We know that many of you use Adobe products, so we were wondering how many from the InsideRIA community will be making the trip to San Francisco next week to attend Adobe MAX. To vote in our poll, please click...
Well it appears that I was little off in my predictions. By getting over 30% of the vote PureMVC has lead the way, with Cairngorm taking second place, and Mate coming in third. I have never used PureMVC but your...
Are Java developers going to ignore JavaFX in favor of Flex?
Check out Adobe AIR applications that break the rules! "AIR GONE WILD" will be a special event held alongside Adobe's Birds of a Feather sessions at the 2008 Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco. Come check out truly next-generation desktop applications that push Adobe AIR to the next level, and get involved by submitting your own application! A prize will be awarded for the best application as voted on by folks from Adobe and the development community.
Last week, Microsoft released Rich IntelliSense for jQuery for Visual Studio 2008. This will also work for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. This comes a month after the anouncement that jQuery will be shipping with future releases of VS 2008, making jQuery the official JavaScript framework for developing .NET AJAX applications.
Certification for developers and Adobe product users of all kinds will be available at the Adobe MAX conference at a 33% discount.
Certification will be going on all three days of the MAX conference Info can be found on this part of the MAX homepage if you scroll down to the 2nd item from the bottom.
If you're interested in taking an exam, feel free to brush up on your skills with a free study guide from Adobe. A full list of the available exams and links to the study guide pdfs can be found here.
Cloud Gazing from Silverlight 2 ... SOAP, REST, POX and more all from Silverlight 2.
Although I'm up to my neck in RIA every day, I'm still impressed by some of the things that people are able to do with RIAs and the internet. Here are a few examples that really grabbed my attention this evening.
Microsoft's next major version of Silverlight will probably provide out-of-the-browser runtime allowing .NET developer to create Silverlight desktop applications for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Yes, we have more contest winners! Last week we announced the winners of the AIR Cook-off; it's now our pleasure to announce the winners of the Adobe Flex Cook-off contest: Nathan Daniel, Kelly Davis, and Vinay (last name). Congratulations and...
The next Flex Camp will be held in the Boston area on December 12th. Just as with all of the previous Flex Camps, you will get a ton of great Flex and AIR training at an unbelievably low price. More details after the jump.
The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Strategy design pattern. The Strategy pattern is used to separate the areas of an application that differ from the areas of an application that remain the same. This design pattern sits on top of several fundamental OOP principals. For example the Strategy pattern uses the concept of programming to an interface rather than an implementation. Strategy also favors composition over inheritance. The reason you would use the Strategy pattern is to abstract an algorithm from a class and create a new class based on the algorithm. Using polymorphism the algorithms can be changed at runtime by the compositing class.
Last week, we asked about AJAX frameworks so this week, lets see how you feel about Flex frameworks. My assumption is that Cairngorm is still the preferred framework of Flex developers, but I have been surprised before. If you review...
This week saw some big announcements for Silverlight at PDC, SlideRocket opened for business, Netflix streams with Silverlight, MTV opened its collection of music videos through the Flash Player, and a new Expression Encoder is released. All this and...
Wow, this was an active poll. After nearly 500 votes, with almost 50% of the vote, Dojo is the clear winner. JQuery takes second place with over 20% of the vote and the rest share the remaining 30%. So, it...