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

Posted by Moxie | October 17, 2007 .

In last post I started with the overview of what I created this multiple mashup Flex application. Now let’s get to the details.
First, I created two piples with Yahoo Piple:

mapprs
This one setup a persistent search at Bloglines, Findory, Google Blog Search, Google News, IceRocket, MSFT Live News, Technorati, and Yahoo! News. then do a […]

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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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Flash + Java + AJAX + IM = VelvetPuffin

Posted by Moxie | August 10, 2007 .

VelvetPuffin, it is a very rare case that all the interesting RIA technologies have been used in one place in a startup. It even more rare that they are applied very elegantly. Aside from everything else, I would highly recommend the site design of this startup, VelvetPuffin. If to use one word to describe its UI […]

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alert: Nokia Mosh is out with access code

Posted by Moxie | August 9, 2007 .

Our sister site N95Pro.com reports that the Nokia Mosh social network site is out in beta. And here is the access code: ALLACCESS. Go paly.

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The State of Adobe AIR - Two Months Later

Posted by Moxie | August 9, 2007 .

Adobe officially turned Apollo into Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) in June. First of all, the name is really geek-ish. It’s same type of recursive name as PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor). So, it’s very human I should say:-) There is a good writing about the the state of AIR at InfoQ, which give you sense […]

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Flex Plus Ruby on Rails To Do Long Run Tasks

Posted by Moxie | August 9, 2007 .

This is another example of collaboration between Flex and Ruby on Rails, which is my favorite web solution. It’s written by Rowan Hick.
The idea is to do things such as Flex upload and kick off Rails background process to handle the file process behind the scene, in the mean while the Flex can be used […]

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New virtual globe startup with Flash- everyscape

Posted by Moxie | May 30, 2007 .

EveryScape is a new geoweb startup. It could become a new member in my top 5 globe explorer post. This one hasn’t opened for business yet. But from the working demo on its front-page, you can find it’s a very interesting and exciting production. The virtual tour piece is written in Flash. I like it […]

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Flex mapping - behond google and yahoo maps

Posted by Moxie | May 4, 2007 .

Location matters. Google map and Yahoo map make everyone online aware of the usefulness of map. However, the one really runs the world’s serious location based services is ESRI, without all the thunders. They’ve got maps too. ESRI has this ArcWeb Services.
ArcWeb Services offer developers a rich set of Web services application programming interfaces (APIs) […]

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