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 [...]
Calling All RIA Students
If you are outgoing and organized, love RIAs and know Flex/AIR, this is an opportunity you might not want to miss.
Adobe is looking for eligible students to represent RIAs – to represent Adobe's RIA technologies to be precise. The eligibility criteria aren't demanding, nor are the responsibilities. The role comes with an attractive package of [...]
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 [...]
Your Baby’s Scrapbook
Babies! They fill our lives with awe and beauty. They simultaneously make us proud and humble. We would like to freeze each moment and store it forever, but neither can most of us afford it nor do we have such time to spare. That is where HowFastTheyGrow.com enters the picture.
The people behind the website developed [...]
Rounding Up Last Week
Flex 3 won InfoWorld's Bossie (Best of Open Source Software Award) as the developer tool for RIAs. Congratulations and many thanks to all Flex developers. Interested folks can contribute in various ways to the Flex Open Source Project.
Catalonia has Olimpics.cat, China has CCTV, but sports fans of USA don't need to feel left out anymore. [...]
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'>
[...]
Intuit’s flexy PaaS
Intuit, better known for its accounting software, is one of the latest entrants in the PaaS, ecosystem. It recently launched its Quickbase developer program, currently running in closed beta. What's particularly interesting about it, is that it is based in Adobe Flex, as we shall see.
Of course, looking to assess the various PaaS offerings out [...]
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 [...]
Using Force.com as a Flex back end…
or depending how you see it, using flex as a force.com application front end.
Either way salesforce is one of the PaaS (platform as a service) providers, that sees in Flex the technology for adding rich user interfaces to its applications. As we'll have the chance to point out in numerous occasions, RIA's and SaaS (software [...]
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