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Flex goes opensource - as expected

Posted by Charles | April 26, 2007 .

I wrote about the war started between Microsoft and Adobe on RIA platform and tools. At other side of battle ground with Microsoft, the ultimate punch is always, you guess it right, opensource. Now Adobe open up Flex. We are all expecting this actually.
 
Using the MPL for open sourcing Flex will allow full and free […]

AJAX on Rails - Rails IDE getting fancy

Posted by Charles | April 24, 2007 .

If you are Ruby on Rails developers (if not, try be one), you might be using RadRails IDE for your rails application development (if not, try it). Just you know, RadRails is Eclipes based IDE, as many others. Now, RadRails become classic. The AJAX IDE opensource tool Aptana integrated the RadRails. The Rails part is in […]

four things that matter the most for the next web

Posted by Charles | April 24, 2007 .

If you haven’t felt it, now you know the web is changing. Desktop is hot, offline is hot, media is hot, visualization is hot, virturalization is hot, and so on. But fundamentally, behind all the happenings, four things really set the baseline of the future web:
APIs
Digg just released its API. And who else doesn’t have API? […]

finetune goes Apollo

Posted by Charles | April 23, 2007 .

As expected, Adobe Apollo sees quick adapters. Finetune, a music playlist sharing social network startup, goes to desktop with Apollo desktop player. As you know, Adobe themselves did the similar thing lately too with the Adobe Media Player, a Apollo application too. It’s very obvious that Apollo provides the better way for online business goes […]

cheapest international travel from Google - very funny

Posted by Charles | April 19, 2007 .

It’s very funny so that I have put it here. Do this:
 
Go to http://maps.google.com
Click the “Get Directions” tab.
In the from box, type “Boston”.
In the to box, type “London”.
Click the “Get Directions” button.
In the directions, pay close attention to #5.
 
And here is what I got:

location matters

Posted by Charles | April 18, 2007 .

Back to the Earth, I’m joining the biggest GIS (geographic information system) company, because location matters, more and more.
Thanks to Google map and yahoo map, location based service (LBS) is becoming part of our life. Thanks to GPS technologies and widespread GPS devices, location matters more and more in our daily life. Location information is very visual. Thanks to RIA […]

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