Try the Wild Side of RIA - Graffiti
Sometimes you just feel all those menus, panels, VBox, HBox, Grid and so on are so boring. Once a while you’d like to tip-toe into the wild side and see what it looks (or feels) like. Here is something you can do, graffiti on your UI. Here is the place you can do that, […]
Flex RIA on “Adobe on Youtube”
I was planning to do a quick roundup like I did last week, but this is a BIG news for our team and demands its unique space.
The Flex RIA blog got noticed by Lyora MacRae of the Adobe Flex team. Lyora is a platform marketing intern at Adobe Systems. She and her cats (Boomer, Phinneus, [...]
5 Best Flash “games” for Enjoying Boring Friday
It's Friday again and are you ready for the weekend? Before that, you need a way to kill the unproductive time in hands. Here are the helps. Turn on speaker.
The Idiot Test
This one will take a long time and there are lots of questions. Jump in!
Teddy Bear Tower
Watch the teddies fall [...]
Tracking Olympics Real Time With Flex
We have finally reached the momentous day. Sports buffs across the world will be breaking their heads to keep track of all their favorite events and results. I wish that by the next Olympics they can all have access to their versions of Olimpics.cat.
Featured as the App of the Week in Adobe Flextv's first episode, Olimpics.cat [...]
DON’Ts For Creating Flash Games
I am sure some of you are already creating your own casual games using PlayCrafter. For your sake, especially if you haven't created games before, I found this post called "50 ways to make us hate your flash game".
50 is a large number, but don't worry. Unless your game has a combination of all or [...]
10 Free Vector Digital Maps for GeoWeb RIA
From time to time you may want to put a vector map on to your flex application. You may not need a Google Map or other GIS functions. All you need is a good vector map you can decorate it with your own tools. Here are some you can get fro free:
JavaFX Back in Contest
Or so it might seem. A month after JavaFX has been written off, having been called too programmer-centric and user-unfriendly, and our in-house trend check presenting its declining presence in the RIA scene, Sun made an announcement that makes a difference.
Sun Microsystems finally released the beta of a new SDK for JavaFX that contains three [...]
Create Your Flex Games
I have never been a big gamer. But I remember sweating for hours at length creating my own stages in Tank and Lode Runner, and being thrilled while playing those as a kid. User-generated content in games could be the next big thing, and PlayCrafter, the gamers' next big thing.
PlayCrafter is a suite of games [...]
Go Green with Black RIA
How can we develop green software with RIA technology? If green means using less energy then the main approach is to reduce the "richness" of a RIA. Here is an example and justification.
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