A Beginner’s Course on Flex
Recently, with RIA technologies continuously generating buzz and increasingly becoming visible, several people are seeking to learn about Flex or some RIA technology. Some of them have even expressed their desire as comments on this very blog. So, shall we have a small introductory course now? In the next half hour?
It's a Friday, so let [...]
How I First Hated Google Chrome
... and then fell in love with it.
I'm sure most of you are looking at this post tepidly having already read tomes about Google Chrome. Don't worry; I have a feeling this will be different. There aren't many stories about returning from the dark side.
When I first heard about Chrome and saw its screenshots, I didn't [...]
Getting Started With Gumbo
The Flex team has been sharing nightly builds of Gumbo (Flex 4 project code name). The Gumbo home page was recently updated with a number of resources. Just in time, Mike Chambers has taken pains to put together various resources that are currently available for us.
Design in Mind, Developer Productivity, and Framework Evolution are its [...]
Love These Programming Quotes
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 [...]
Google Competes in RIA?
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'>
[...]
MediaWombat Indexing Flash
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 [...]
Adobe Release, Resource, Request
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 [...]
Trusting Adobe AIR Apps
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 [...]
What can be behind Flex?
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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