Rounding Up Last Week
Flex 3 won InfoWorld’s Bossie (Best of Open Source Software Award) as the developer tool for RIAs. Congratulations and many thanks to all Flex developers. Interested folks can contribute in various ways to the Flex Open Source Project.
Catalonia has Olimpics.cat, China has CCTV, but sports fans of USA don’t need to feel left out anymore. […]
Google Competes in RIA?
I’m talking about gxp, the Google XML Pages, which is in 0.2 beta. Competes in RIA space? Well, take it look at the Hello World code:
<gxp:template name=’com.google.sample.HelloWorld’
xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’
xmlns:gxp=’http://google.com/2001/gxp’>
[…]
Develop Flash Application in Ruby
There are this IronMonkey open source project that will enable Flash development using language rather than ActionScript. Here is another one, HotRuby.
HotRuby is a Ruby VM written JavaScript (yes, it’s odd and interesting), which runs opcode compiled by YARV.
Here are examples of developed using HotRuby: Pinball - Flash and Box2DFlashAS3 - Flash.
But, don’t get […]
Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming
I believe there are lots of Flash game developers and wanabes around. Game programming is really not about programming or coding. It’s all about applying algorithms to creativity. I run into this site gives you all the basic for game programming. You can scan through and see if game programming is your thing.
To even try […]
Intuit’s flexy PaaS
Intuit, better known for its accounting software, is one of the latest entrants in the PaaS, ecosystem. It recently launched its Quickbase developer program, currently running in closed beta. What’s particularly interesting about it, is that it is based in Adobe Flex, as we shall see.
Of course, looking to assess the various PaaS offerings out […]
Market Yourself Using Sprout Builder
Widgets are in.
Sprout clubs all widgets, mini-sites, banners, mashups and other rich media Web content under one category called "Sprouts", and provides an awesome platfrom called Sprout Builder to build, publish and manage these sprouts. These sprouts, which are just Flash content, can be embedded on any social media sites with a single click, and [...]
MediaWombat Indexing Flash
Steve Webb and Troy Yohn are just two guys with day jobs working on the problem of indexing flash content in their own spare time.
MediaWombat is a search engine that parses through SWF files and catalogues information based on it. "We crawl the internet looking for SWF files, then grab them, rip them apart, index them and [...]
Adobe Release, Resource, Request
Release
While wishing for a universal alternative of Olimpics.cat, I was oblivious about this welcome development. Adobe Systems and CCTV International Networks have announced their partnership to deliver the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ coverage online. Sports fans can now view the events, athletes and country teams of their choice on CCTVOlympics.com. CCTV.com holds the online video [...]
Using Force.com as a Flex back end…
or depending how you see it, using flex as a force.com application front end.
Either way salesforce is one of the PaaS (platform as a service) providers, that sees in Flex the technology for adding rich user interfaces to its applications. As we'll have the chance to point out in numerous occasions, RIA's and SaaS (software [...]
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