Love These Programming Quotes

Posted by Charles | August 23, 2008 .

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.Tom Cargill

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.Larry Wall
Measuring programming […]

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Google Competes in RIA?

Posted by Charles | August 18, 2008 .

I’m talking about gxp, the Google XML Pages, which is in 0.2 beta. Competes in RIA space? Well, take it look at the Hello World code:
<gxp:template name=’com.google.sample.HelloWorld’
xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’
xmlns:gxp=’http://google.com/2001/gxp’>

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MediaWombat Indexing Flash

Posted by Sravan | August 13, 2008 .

Steve Webb and Troy Yohn are just two guys with day jobs working on the problem of indexing flash content in their own spare time.
MediaWombat is a search engine that parses through SWF files and catalogues information based on it. “We crawl the internet looking for SWF files, then grab them, rip them apart, index them and […]

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Adobe Release, Resource, Request

Posted by Sravan | August 12, 2008 .

Release
While wishing for a universal alternative of Olimpics.cat, I was oblivious about this welcome development. Adobe Systems and CCTV International Networks have announced their partnership to deliver the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ coverage online. Sports fans can now view the events, athletes and country teams of their choice on CCTVOlympics.com. CCTV.com holds the online video […]

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Trusting Adobe AIR Apps

Posted by Sravan | July 30, 2008 .

MeeBone, RichFLV, Snackr, Twhirl, Wallowr. I can think of three things common to these RIAs. All five of them are Adobe AIR apps, with an UNKNOWN publisher, reviewed on our Flex RIA.
Users are aware that anything they install from the web could be unreliable. Shipping your Adobe AIR apps (for that matter, any apps) after […]

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What can be behind Flex?

Posted by Harry Vikatos | July 24, 2008 .

Focusing enough on Flex capabilities we shouldn’t overlook the fact that Flex is a Rich Internet Application development tool, and as such will almost always have to exist ontop of an IT infrastructure, providing data persistence, logic, workflow and messaging. Actually there is a lot in that backend stack, that makes a whole difference in […]

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The New Flex.org

Posted by Sravan | July 22, 2008 .

Flex.org recently underwent a complete makeover. While the previous look was geared up to get developers acquainted with Flex, the new one is more focused on community resources. Beginners can still use the Flex Development Center and Product pages on Adobe to get started.
The new Flex.org definitely seems more user-friendly, easily navigable and contains a […]

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Flash is Ubiquitous

Posted by Sravan | July 17, 2008 .

In the past, I’ve voiced that the non-pervasiveness of Flash (rather an average user’s ability to install plug-ins) is one reason website designers should consider before going for Flash. I officially scrap that as a point no longer valid.
Millward Brown, one of the world’s leading market research agencies, recently closed a survey commissioned by Adobe […]

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Adobe AIR for Total Virtualization Management

Posted by Sravan | July 16, 2008 .

This is a larger step for Adobe AIR in entering “serious” applications. With the sudden outbreak and rising necessity for virtualization, several companies, big and small, are sweating to go virtual and also adapt their own technologies to work in the virtual environments. While VMWare and Microsoft are battling to provide virtualization management capabilities BlueBear […]

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