The State of Flex Development Ecosystem Reviewed
I spent some time last weekend went over my weaponry cache for Flex development and put out a post on InfoQ.com that reviewed current state of Flex development ecosystem. Go check it out.
I did missed couple of great Flex tools:
FunFx is Flex testing tools that uses Ruby to write the test script. It’s fun and [...]
UI Design Goes Straight to Hell
Came across this very funny comic blog How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell on Oatmeal. It’s based on the author Matthew Inman’s real experience and he actually used the exact words his client once said to him.
Just reading through it I can recall I’ve received similar comments in the past from clients on [...]
Dojo on Air
Dojo 1.4 release is imminent. Make me wondering who should buy Dojo (Microsoft has claimed jquery). If it won’t be Adobe, at least Adobe is fond of Dojo. Here is Dojo AIR toolbox called, Dojo toolbax. It’s created by SitePen and co-sponsored by Adobe. The toolbox itself is built using Dojo Toolkit and Adobe AIR.
The [...]
5 Icon Design Tutorials
Once you installed more than 100 apps on your iPhone you would know that good icon counts. That applies to any type of application designs, not mentioning RIAs. Here are 5 icon design tutorials to try out if you are a DIY type of persons.
World Icon Tutorial
The author’s first eve icon design in Adobe Photoshop. [...]
Flex RIA Alternatives
We love richer RIA as much as we love Flex. You might think Silverlight is the only Flex alternative in town (JavaFX? what is that?), think again. Here are a few worth watching, or better, trying.
SproutCore (http://www.sproutcore.com)
SproutCore 1.0 is a HTML5 application framework to develop desktop alike application in any modern web browser, without plugins. [...]
Rounding Up Last Week
Bhuvan, India’s Google Earth Killer, for the time being sucks. For now they have the excuses of the terrorist scare and the implications on national security of open access to hi-res geospatial data.
While Silverlight scored another win in the sports industry which I won’t report, the Adobe AIR is excited about MLB.com’s OnBase, the AIR [...]
Rounding Up the MAX Widget Week
The entire blogosphere is abuzz with the Adobe MAX widget that Serge Jespers made. I am not able to embed it in this post.
Be sure to update your Flex apps to use the 3.4 SDK. It contains a fix to a critical security bug that could cause [...]
Rounding Up Week Of the 2009 Hype Cycle
The Gartner Hype Cycle 2009 report was released last week. Cloud computing and E-book readers share the global maxima, and social software suites and microblogging are apparently just past their crest. Ryan Stewart highlighted Adobe’s prominence.
Ryan Stewart is also awestruck by interface designer Theresa Neil and highly recommends some of her material on RIAs.
Elad Elrom [...]
Rounding Up Social Media Outage Week
Many developers are increasingly working on Android apps. Now that Apple’s App Rejection pseudocode has been exposed. I have seen only two applications of pseudocode so far: interviews and jokes.
Ryan has examples to prove that the latest release Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is in fact more than what I previously called “a minor update… which includes [...]
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