RIAs at the Enterprise Level
The penetration of RIAs into the consumer world is beyond doubt. We have numbers supporting that time and again. To that extent, RIAs are here to stay. However, I sometimes wonder the scenario when it comes to enterprise apps.
Let us exclude AJAX for the sake of discussion because most GUIs these days are being built [...]
Rounding Up An Eventful Week
Adobe Flex & Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR has now been installed over 200 million times. Adrian Ludwig of the Adobe AIR team recaps the various territories it has been adopted into: social apps (mostly Twitter apps, I think), enterprise apps (Salesforce, Oracle), government apps (the Polish Finance Ministry), and what I call novelty apps (like the [...]
Rounding Up Another Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst Week
The Adobe Flex team is conducting three free online seminars this week covering the new features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. A session each for PHP developers, Flash Catalyst, and ColdFusion developers will be conducted this Tue, Wed and Thu respectively.
Lee Brimelow uploaded a two-part tutorial on Flex Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst.
Carlos [...]
Rounding Up Facebook Desktop App Week
Flash pre-installed Nokia devices are being shipped. (via)
The Adobe AIR team is obviously excited about Facebook’s AIR app. James, though, prefers TweetDeck. Facebook continued to be blogged about, by the Silverlight team about the WPF and Silverlight Apps previewed with the Facebook Openstreams API.
Tesla Motors is using Merapi and Adobe AIR.
WaiLam completed his tutorial series [...]
Rounding Up An Activity-filled Week
If you feel guilty of surfing the Internet for things not directly related to your work while in office brush it away and plan to strike a balance. Adobe XD has links which support that you are doing the right thing.
Intuity and Xtify together are conducting a contest for a location-based RIA. Huge prizes but [...]
The Genius of Oracle
Read press release here.
I remain awe-struck by Oracle’s bold decision to buy Sun for two reasons. One, the software industry didn’t know what hit it. Two, it appears to be a great way for Oracle to bloat across the spectrum, placing itself in a very enviable position.
Below the database, Oracle ventured into storage management with [...]
Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced
Synchronous Objects is a rich website hosted by the Ohio State University. The site is a research tool for visualizing and exploring the complexities of choreography. It is the latest project of internationally renowned dancer and choreographer William Forsythe.
The project was built with the support of Norah Zuniga Shaw, the director of OSU’s Dance and [...]
Hundred Million Milestones
The one news that eluded me was about JavaFX. 100 million. No kidding! Even JavaFX, which many of us consider as the Herbie of the sprint touched that big number in less than four months: JavaFX 1.0 had been released on December 4, 2008. “JavaFX’s download rate makes it the fastest growing RIA platform on [...]
Rounding Up Last Week
You have all no doubt heard about the 100 million Adobe AIR installs and 55% penetration of Flash Player 10. Good for Adobe, congratulations!, but I am finding these regularly pumped out numbers increasingly boring. Sorry.
Ted made a post about Adobe MAX between 2008 and 2009 after returning from MAX Japan 2009. And David was [...]
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