All in one File Format Converter

Posted by Charles | October 25, 2008 .

Normally I don’t talk about offline desktop applications unless it’s something coming from online such as Adobe AIR application. But this one is just too good to hold from you.
Yes, the all in one file format converter, FormatFactory. And of cause, it’s free. It covers all the media file types I can think of or […]

2 Comments

Cloud is in Business, Business with SLA and no Beta

Posted by Charles | October 24, 2008 .

Amazon has announcement today that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is now Generally Available and includes a Service Level Agreement (SLA). I would take this as general reminder to all the web players, especially the Web 2.0 crowd, that a beta version does has a limit life span. Beta has a end. Google, are […]

2 Comments

May Simplicity the Richness of RIA

Posted by Charles | October 24, 2008 .

I came across this amazing video that tells how complexity that be taken for granted can be as simple as it shows. It stroke me that the same concept applies to RIA design as well. I’ve seem many efforts of RIA developments and designs emphasized on the first letter, R the Richness. However, the richness […]

1 Comment

Quick Reminder About Head Conference

Posted by Sravan | October 24, 2008 .

The web conference is to start in a few hours. The local conference hub registration is still open for the London hub according to Aral’s blog. I’m not sure about the remaining hubs in Brighton (UK), Manchester (UK), Fribourg (Switzerland), and San Francisco (USA), but at least the official website hasn’t changed the announcement that […]

2 Comments

GeoWeb in Cloud

Posted by Charles | October 23, 2008 .

Mansure Raad had a very interesting post on how to create a Flex geoweb application using the Amazon S3 (the cloud). Several interesting tools he used:

ESRI ArcGIS API for Flex - will be released to public soon
Amazon S3 - If you don’t know what it is, shame on you. Heading here to regain your dignity.
S3Fox […]

Comment

Problems With the Adobe Website

Posted by Sravan | October 23, 2008 .

Adobe.com is a major source for my information. Be it news or new releases or issues or anything directly related to Adobe, I try to cross-check it with some document in the website. Not because it is infallible, but because it is an official source. Often, I spend most of my time on the website […]

2 Comments

Flex Drill Down Charts

Posted by Charles | October 22, 2008 .

The shout “Drill, Baby, Drill” reminded me to put out the Flex drill down chart sample. One benefit of applying RIA technologies is for data visualization. Flex framework comes with fairly rich set of charting tools. A drill down chart is very good way of looking into data from different levels. If you happened to […]

1 Comment

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0

Posted by Sravan | October 22, 2008 .

With my focus still mainly on Adobe technologies, I haven’t noticed that Microsoft had released Silverlight 2.0 a day before Adobe released Flash Player 10.
Silverlight 2.0 provides expanded support for .NET allowing developers to build RIAs using Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, IronPython or IronRuby. This could be Silverlight’s USP, at least for a while, because […]

Comment

Using Flash in JavaScript App to Store Data Locally

Posted by Charles | October 21, 2008 .

There are many reasons sometimes you want to store data locally to a user’s computer from a JavaScript application. JavaScript/HTML doesn’t have too much choice excepting using cookies. Of cause unless you use the more elaborate solution such Google Gear. Otherwise, the other option would be using Flash.
This Japanese dude create small JS/Flash utility you […]

Comment

« Previous Page — Next Page »