Another Map Icon Factory for RIA GeoWeb

Posted by Charles | March 31, 2008 .

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 […]

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Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0308b

Posted by Charles | March 29, 2008 .

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 […]

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Adobe is Serious About Going 100% Online

Posted by Charles | March 28, 2008 .

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 […]

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Google Released MapIconFactory Code for Better Map Mashup

Posted by Charles | March 27, 2008 .

Google Map as the best GeoWeb visualization client and the AJAX RIA pioneer is constantly gotten infusion of UI goodies from Goolge Map API people. This week they put the MapIconMakerFactory 1.0 to Google Code.
The MapIconFactory is actually a JavaScript library that can be used in conjunction with regular GMap API. What you need to […]

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A Flex Based Web Apps Development Platform

Posted by Charles | March 26, 2008 .

“A 100% web-based system that allows knowledge workers to create their own custom business applications. There’s never any software to install or servers to maintain. Just think it, build it and share it!”
And it’s all in Flex too. Can it that easy?
I tried and it’s quite good. This startup (started a while ago) is called […]

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Flex Startup to Reduce Noise in You Life

Posted by Charles | March 25, 2008 .

“More knowledge. Less noise.” That what the new startup filtrbox claims. And flitrbox believe you’d like to pay them to reduce the noise. For now, it’s in private beta test. I’ve got a invite to try it out.
One thing I believe is that they are trying to solve a real problem. That is we’ve stuffed […]

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Very Serious Rich Google RIA

Posted by Charles | March 24, 2008 .

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 […]

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Flex Programming Tips of Week 0803c

Posted by Charles | March 23, 2008 .

A lot more people start programming in Flex lately. Let me collect some good worth keeping tips every week from now on. You can submit the one you like too. Here are for this week:
Vertically Aligning Tabs - hows how you can align tabs vertically within a Flex TabBar control by setting the verticalAlign style.
Accessing […]

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Flash is Coming to iPhone

Posted by Charles | March 21, 2008 .

There are some good news about Flash in the mobile space. First Microsoft will add

Flash to Microsoft Mobile platform, even though I’m sure they’d like Silverlight to be the first class citizen there. And, after Steve Jobs said no to Flash Lite. Adobe CEO Shanatanu Narayen has announced that Adobe has begun developing a Flash-solution […]

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