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Place to Flash out Your Life Events

Posted by Charles | December 13, 2007 .

I’ve written about Flex is getting more social and your time capsule can be managed by Flex social network too. Looks the trend has been enforced by more social network embracing Flash based RIA to provide more visual appealing web social environment. The new startup Xakash is one of them.
Xakash is focusing on managing your […]

Adobe Closed Web App Loop with BlazeDS

Posted by Charles | December 12, 2007 .

At Flex 1.0, Adobe tied the RIA UI with the Flex Server, and with a big price tag. That didn’t go very well. Then, it seemed that the RIA is all about UI. The server piece (lately called LiveCycle Data Services DS) was siting side line waiting for deep packets.
Tonight, Adobe finally closed the web […]

Connect the Dots with Flash

Posted by Charles | December 12, 2007 .

If you believe nothing is coincident in this world, then you’d love to explore the relationships or connections between things. And there is no better way than visualize that kind of correlations among the things you are interested in. If it happens that you love music too, you would love a Flash site called TuneGlue.
TuneGlue […]

Flex Getting More Social

Posted by Charles | December 11, 2007 .

Social media is becoming the next (or current) frontier of technology and new business battle ground. Put those well known figures (facebook, myspace, yadayada) aside, Adobe Flex has been chosen more and more as the social network building block. I’ve introduced one a few days ago. Here is another one jumps into the social graph […]

Flickr Going Flash on Photo Editing

Posted by Charles | December 10, 2007 .

We all know by now Flickr is not the largest online photo repository but it’s the most well known and the flag ship of web 2.0 web site. Flickr’s API is one of the most masked up around the web too. One thing is alwasy missing there is the photo editing. But not anymore.
Flickr now […]

Google Charting API Released

Posted by Charles | December 8, 2007 .

Charting is one of most used feature among RIA technologies. Google, as a data-indexing sponge, just released it’s HTTP request based charting API, which will absorb charting data into its data centers.
It’s very simple API to use, and it doesn’t require app key. Here is an example:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:hW&chs=250×100&chl=Hello|World
This URL will give you a chart like […]

Put Christmas on Rails 2.0

Posted by Charles | December 7, 2007 .

What a surprise! The Ruby on Rails gang pulled it off and released Rails 2.0, right before Christmas.
There are tons of changes and enhancement. Something worth noticing, such as Rails 2.0 clearly picked the side over SOAP vs REST. It removed the ActionWebService to be a gem. Rails on REST only now.
Can’t wait to see […]

Flex Colorful Beads Just for Fun

Posted by Charles | December 7, 2007 .

I have been talking about tech fighting, racing and growing business around RIA. But it’s holiday season, we should all lighten up and enjoy the rest of 2007. And, having some good old activities called..urh…um…fun.
Is that RIA all about?
At least Tom Van den Eynde agrees with me. He sent in a fun Flex application, […]

Is Facebook on Rails?

Posted by Charles | December 6, 2007 .

Tried to tag a friend and kept getting the error. Um…looks like Facebook is on Ruby on Rails now. All we knew was Facebook is a PHP shop.

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