Google Indexing External Content

Posted by Sravan | June 25, 2009 .

The Google Webmaster Central Blog recently carried a post assuring webmasters across the globe that Google is now capable of indexing Flash content along with its associated external resources. In plain English, it means that if SWF X loads content from SWF Y, then Y can be recognized as a child of X and both [...]

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Generating Speech With AIR and Java

Posted by Sravan | June 11, 2009 .

Rich Tretola recently posted a nice AIR/Java example for voice applications. The inspiration came from the ColdFusion Jedi Raymond Camden who posted an example of generating speech with ColdFusion and Java.
Both examples essentially use an underlying TTS (text-to-speech) system. They use Java-based FreeTTS here but you could use any of the TTS systems freely available. [...]

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Silex, the June Sourceforge POTM

Posted by Sravan | June 10, 2009 .

Silex is an open source RIA that can be used to build Flash Web sites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. It is a CMS which can handle a wide variety of media, comes with an online WYSIWYG editor, automatically generates deep linking for your SWFs, and creates on-the-fly HTML versions for each [...]

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Rounding Up The Google Wave Week

Posted by Sravan | June 1, 2009 .

Last week actually became a Flex 4 week towards the tail end, but read about that in the next post. Google Wave is a phenomenal project and I already told you that.
One of our readers has a doubt: “I wondered if submitting an XML site map to google with relevant descriptions and titles was an [...]

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Rounding Up The Cannes Week

Posted by Sravan | May 25, 2009 .

I realized only last week that “sex” is the second most commonly searched term on our blog. Sad. If only the remaining top ones had been similarly inappropriate! Anybody think we should sprinkle a little keywords in our posts every now and then?
There are more people wishing for AIR apps that do nothing. Reader radekg [...]

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Lessons From Time100

Posted by Sravan | May 12, 2009 .

Time100 is an Adobe AIR app showing with the most influential people of the world in the last six years (2004-2009) divided into five categories (Leaders & Revolutionaries, Heroes & Pioneers, Scientists & Thinkers, Artists & Entertainers, Builders & Titans) scattered across the globe based on their geographical locations.
The user can navigate across the globe [...]

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Catch Security Vulnerabilities Using SwfScan

Posted by Sravan | March 26, 2009 .

A week ago HP released a tool called SwfScan to help Flash developers identify security vulnerabilities in their code. SwfScan takes the path to a .SWF as input, decompiles it to source code, and analyzes the source code to identify security vulnerabilities.
SwfScan can decompile both AS2 and AS3 and using static analysis identify over 60 [...]

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Four Flex IDEs

Posted by Sravan | March 4, 2009 .

From the obvious to the less obvious:
1. Adobe Flex Builder: Most Flash developers swear that this is the easiest way to develop rich Internet applications for the web and the desktop using Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. Understandably the most extensive IDE for Flex available on the market. A free student license, a 60-day free [...]

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Rounding Up Safari’s Week

Posted by Sravan | March 2, 2009 .

The Adobe Flex Team is conducting a Flex user survey and Inside RIA is conducting a poll about how frequently developers contribute to open source efforts.
Adobe AIR 1.5.1 was released. It includes a number of minor bug fixes and a new API.
Now it is the turn of Silverlight to talk about adoption numbers. Mike Ormond [...]

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