Flex Mashup I - Salesforce, Yahoo Pipe, Map, Flickr

Posted by Moxie | October 16, 2007 .

Tried to make a case study of Web as Platform. Spend my weekend crafted a mashup using Flex as UI. Let me sharing the findings.
First, what is the Web As Platform thing. Well, the world wide web is a giant name and logo soup if you don’t look at it in a orderly way, just […]

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Is this Fancy Visual Search Useful?

Posted by Charles | October 15, 2007 .

It’s visual product search to be more accurate. I am not sure if I will use it everyday for my online purchase activities, but surely I enjoyed using it. It’s fun.

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Who will Buy Adobe?

Posted by Charles | October 12, 2007 .

There are some big consolidations going on lately in the technology and business software world. SAP bought Business Object, the key business intelligence software vendor, in this week. Today, Oracle (ORCL) starts bid on buying BEA System, the WebLogic J2EE application server and a suite of business application management software. So far, BEA is the largest […]

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15+ ActionScript Code Resources

Posted by Charles | October 11, 2007 .

Doesn’t matter you are doing Flash, Flex or AIR, you need deal with ActionScript. Here are ActionScript resources could help you being more productive, or learning Flash based fun development:
Action Script Library - A collection of code snippets for use with ActionScript.
ActionScript.org Library - A collection of over 700 scripts for you to use, a […]

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Become Instant VJ with Flex/AIR VISP

Posted by Charles | October 10, 2007 .

Imagine in your party, you fire up a laptop loaded with a VISP (Visual Performer) software, plus cool photo or video clips and noisy music, project the the visual show on the walls or ceiling if you want. Now you are the center of the party, the VJ that really spicy the air up…. That’s […]

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Flex Word Processor Beats Big League

Posted by Charles | October 9, 2007 .

The list of online players that offer office software is getting very long, from Google (Google Pack), Sun OpenOffice, IBM’s latest Lotus based and bunch of other startups such as Sohu. The goal is all the same, challenging Microsoft’s domination on the office space, while Microsoft starts defending the turf with office live products. Now, […]

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Get Ideas from Cool Software, laterally

Posted by Charles | October 8, 2007 .

Intel goes web 2.0 style web with releasing a new Digg clone site called CoolSW. The CoolSW site is an online community of people passionate about software. Members can post information about an interesting new software company and, more important, the community votes on whether they think a software company is, well, “cool.” Companies that […]

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Happy Flex Testing - FunFX

Posted by Charles | October 8, 2007 .

While you growing your Flex application to become a giant serious system, you really want to keep up with testing. Good news, there are options. Got this from and between Derek Wischusen at FlexonRails (my favorate topic) and Aslak Hellesoy, a top RoR guy. FunFX is a free, open source Flex’s automation framework, developed by […]

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What The Fact is Tamarin

Posted by Charles | October 7, 2007 .

The short answer is, Tamarin is ActionScript virtual machine that its code is used by Adobe within the Flash player. Pretty significant, right. There are more.
Tamarin Project is one of mozilla projects. The goal of the “Tamarin” project is to implement a high-performance, open source implementation of the ECMAScript 4th edition (ES4) language specification. The […]

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