Curl to Compete with Adobe AIR
Though Rich Internet Applications have made a quite an impact on Internet based applications, their prevalence in desktop based applications is a rarity. With Curl launching its advanced runtime software platform “Nitro”; things are expected to hot up in the enterprise based RIA applications. Nitro based applications are highly suited for large organization who wish […]
Google Opens up gCloud, Watch out, RoR, EC2 and Flex
Google announced Google App Engine and WOW-ed the the whole web. And, this is just a preview release! What this has anything to do with RIA? Keep reading.
Here are the quick points you’d expect from Google App Engine:
It’s a virtual hosting environment in the “gCloud”.
Your gAppEngine apps run off appspot.com domain or from your Google […]
Webkit’s Perfect Score is Good for Adobe AIR
Webkit has announced that their Webkit core scored a perfect 100/100 score on the Acid3 web browser standards compliance tests. If you want to know what that means, Acid3 test editor Ian Hickson has the details. Otherwise, 100% is just good, obviously.
But what this has to do with Adobe AIR?
Adobe AIR’s HTML and JavaScript within […]
Another Map Icon Factory for RIA GeoWeb
I wrote about Google’s release of its MapIconMaker JavaScript library last week. From a comment of it I got to know another Map Icon Factory site that could help developing richer GeoWeb applicaiton, Mapcion Factory by CatoSoft.
It’s for profit site that requires to pay to get access the large stored map icons. However, if you […]
Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0308b
There are more and more great contributions from Flex community, which is stronger and bigger. Here are handful of them in this week:
LiveCycle ES vs LiveCycle DS vs BlazeDS -Greg Wilson tried to clear up the confusion among these terms/products. Indeed it’s about time for just this. While the UI part of Flex RIA is […]
Adobe is Serious About Going 100% Online
Last year Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen announced that over the next 10 year, they are moving all their product online. Looks they are very serious about it. Yesterday, Adobe rolled out Photoshop Express, a online edition of the popular photo edition tool.
I’m sure you guessed right, it’s full Flash implementation. And of cause the online […]
Very Serious Rich Google RIA
Do you know what Google Map was written in? Google claimed that the whole Google Map client side was written in Java, yes, Java, by using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT is “open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak […]
5 Speech Bubbles Design Resources
Forget it if it’s Flex, Silverlight or AJAX, when your apps to have users say something, you might want the sayings speak in speech bubbles. To make your design effort easier or to have some references, here five more places you can check them out.
CSS Play - This CSS based bubbles that use images to […]
10 Button Design Resources For RIA Applications
Now you’ve got all the shining tools for exciting RIA applications, brand new Flex 3 and AIR plus Silverlight 2.0. You can skin your Flex apps as far as your creativity and imagination can go. You can indulge yourself with how ever complex Silverlight templates you want. Let’s start with Button. Since we still need […]
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