Try the Wild Side of RIA - Graffiti
Sometimes you just feel all those menus, panels, VBox, HBox, Grid and so on are so boring. Once a while you’d like to tip-toe into the wild side and see what it looks (or feels) like. Here is something you can do, graffiti on your UI. Here is the place you can do that, […]
DON’Ts For Creating Flash Games
I am sure some of you are already creating your own casual games using PlayCrafter. For your sake, especially if you haven’t created games before, I found this post called “50 ways to make us hate your flash game”.
50 is a large number, but don’t worry. Unless your game has a combination of all or […]
Create Your Flex Games
I have never been a big gamer. But I remember sweating for hours at length creating my own stages in Tank and Lode Runner, and being thrilled while playing those as a kid. User-generated content in games could be the next big thing, and PlayCrafter, the gamers' next big thing.
PlayCrafter is a suite of games [...]
Go Green with Black RIA
How can we develop green software with RIA technology? If green means using less energy then the main approach is to reduce the "richness" of a RIA. Here is an example and justification.
Rounding Up Last Week
British Telecom acquired Ribbit for about $105M. Ryan Stewart already interviewed Chuck Freedman, Ribbit's director of development platform, about the way it might affect developers. Ribbit, the self-proclaimed "Silicon Valley's first phone company", is an open platform that enables voice telephony in Web 2.0 applications.
The Flex SEO Contest Ryan launched early last month got good [...]
Best Way to Kill Your Friday Idle Hours
It's Friday! (for half of you I guess). I know you must have some idle time to kill in brain-dead way before calling it a day. I can't blame you. That's why I'm here to assist you with a perfect tool, the singing hourses, a Flash..um...something. You need turn on your speaker or [...]
Flash is Ubiquitous
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 I officially scrap that as a point no longer valid.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 [...]
Translate Personal Flash Sites
I haven't had a chance to see RIAs in non-English languages much. When I first saw Camilo Langlade's Flash website, I was very impressed. But unfortunately, I can barely recognize Spanish. I mechanically tried Google's Language Tools, and by the time the translated version loaded I realized how difficult it is for search engines to [...]
Potential Threats Through Softwares
Although this hasn't much to do with RIAs, you might find it important.
Account stealing trojans are now entering our computers through Adobe Flash Plug-ins as well. While internet users are increasingly becoming aware of security, attacks on computers are becoming ingenious and malicious by the day. One form of such attacks targets vulnerabilities in softwares.
The usual [...]
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