Fresh AIR is Refreshing

Posted by Sravan | July 31, 2008 .

Earlier this month, Adobe acted in a manner that caused much furor across the RIA community. James Whittaker, an interactive Designer and Developer, was asked to give up his domain FreshAIRApps.com for trademark infringement. As some people then pointed out, it could be because copyright law requires companies to proactively challenge unauthorized use of trademarks […]

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Beautiful Flex Skin and Style for Sharing

Posted by Charles | July 30, 2008 .

I came across this site, Fillcolors, and really like it.

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Trusting Adobe AIR Apps

Posted by Sravan | July 30, 2008 .

MeeBone, RichFLV, Snackr, Twhirl, Wallowr. I can think of three things common to these RIAs. All five of them are Adobe AIR apps, with an UNKNOWN publisher, reviewed on our Flex RIA.
Users are aware that anything they install from the web could be unreliable. Shipping your Adobe AIR apps (for that matter, any apps) after […]

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I’m Totally Moved by the Nature of Love

Posted by Charles | July 29, 2008 .

I’m sure you will as well. Just watch this video…

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RichFLV is Rich Indeed

Posted by Sravan | July 29, 2008 .

RichFLV is an Adobe AIR app that can edit FLV files. It is also the only FLV editor, according to Ted Patrick.
There aren’t many instances where one might need to edit FLVs, it being mainly used as the common compressed output format. But ‘many’ doesn’t mean ‘any’. You might simply want to edit all the […]

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Babbel Gets Money

Posted by Charles | July 28, 2008 .

The startup I love and wrote about, Babbel, just received VC funding. Babbel is a Germany based startup for learning languages. It’s developed with the combination of Flex + Ruby on Rails + Amazon EC2 + Subversion + Trac + Capistrano + Agile process!! Beautiful architecture.
According to Babble:
Users can now look forward to improvements on […]

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Anti Flex Frameworks, Shall We?

Posted by Charles | July 28, 2008 .

Are frameworks healthy supplements or slowly-but-surely poisons to the young RIA world, especially beloved Flex? Are those design patterns the steroid pills or wight-loss metabolism justified medicine?
Take a look at what Yakov Fain came up with based on the PureMVC framework:

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Randy Pausch Leaves

Posted by Sravan | July 28, 2008 .

The much needed weekends can sometimes be so unjust. I was too busy enjoying my weekend to notice that Randy Pausch took his last breath on 25th July. When I read this piece of news early this morning, I didn't realize how much he touched me until my eyes welled up with tears.
Randy Pausch was an [...]

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Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0807d

Posted by Charles | July 27, 2008 .

Keeping Rotated Content Clipped - When you are getting more towards the visual and media side of Flex you will have to deal with something like this. So, be prepared.
Define Dynamic XML Literals by javier Julio - XML is first class citizen of Flex/Actionscript. However, from time to time you just want to do more [...]

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