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- Flex
- A development system for Flash-based applications from Adobe. Introduced in 2004 as a J2EE application, Flex compiles ActionScript code and XML-based user interface descriptions MXML into binary Flash files...
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- Curl Report
- Screenshots of images from the Curl RIA report. by Ryan Stewart
- Tags: Screenshot, Image, Ryan Stewart, screenshots, curl, flex, ajax, rich internet applications
- Image galleries 2007-09-26
- Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex
- I just caught that Bubblemark, which is quickly becoming the RIA benchmark source added a test for JavaFX. So now with the Bubblemark tool you have the source and the applications to compare a variety of RIA technologies. According to the post, JavaFX is really slow, but it's still in...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, Flex, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- MyMovieMatch - a Rich Internet Application recommendation engine
- Last week matchmine released MyMovieMatch, a very cool interactive application that serves as a recommendation engine for movies. The application was built with Flex 2 and Adobe AIR and provides a bit of a bridge between the web and the desktop. The primary initalization mode is all done via the...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, matchmine, Flex, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Pownce using AIR (and I've got invites)
- Kevin Rose unveiled a new project today, Pownce. Pownce looks like it's going to combine Twitter with the ability to send events, files, and links to your friends. Pownce allows you to send it to a specific person or share with everyone. Based on Leah's blog it looks like it's...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Rich Internet Applications make big splash on PCWorld's top 25 sites to watch
- It looks like PCWorld thinks Rich Internet Applications RIAs are going to be a big thing to watch this year because their list of the Top 25 sites to watch has a few recognizable names. The first is Popfly, Microsoft's mashup creator that is targeted at geeks and average users...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Goowy, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- New version of ColdFusion aimed at .NET, Ajax crowd
- The very first language I ever programmed was Quick Basic. The next one was Java in an introduction computer science class. But the first time I ever made real money programming it was building ColdFusion when I worked for Wharton Computing. As a result, ColdFusion has always held a special...
- Tags: Adobe, Ajax, ColdFusion, Flex, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application for its browser messenger
- Today Yahoo released a web based version of its messenger which was built using Adobes Flex 2 on top of Flash Player 9. The application is very well done and I thought it was more than competitive with Meebo. Its also fast, intuitive and stable, things a lot of people...
- Tags: Yahoo, Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- What's next for OpenLaszlo?
- With the announcement that Flex was going open source I was waiting for Cotes take last night, more than a few people wondered what the implication was for Laszlo Systems, a company that helped start the RIA craze and had open sourced its product last year and become the only...
- Tags: Adobe, Flex, OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Adobe Flex goes open source
- Adobe is announcing tonight that the Flex SDK will be open sourced under the Mozilla public license, the same license that they open sourced the Action Script VM under the Tamarin project. The move is just the latest in a trend of an increasingly open ecosystem around Flash and Flex...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies
- Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...
- Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Comcast jumps into Flex 2 for media content
- Thanks to Mike Potter, I found Comcasts "The Fan" application which is listed on their labs.comcast.com site and is serving up video clips and promotions for a lot of their cable content. The site was built using Adobes Flex 2 technology, and is an excellent example of how big media...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- Adobe rolls out a new version of Flex.org
- Yesterday Adobe took the wraps off of a new, improved version of Flex.org. The site is Adobes developer portal for Flex. Its always been a bit more informal than the Flex Developer Center on the Adobe site, and prior to the redesign, it had languished a bit as a resource....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- The war for Ajax developers
- I think theres a war for Ajax developers and Im not sure the people involved realize it yet. I look at Ajax developers as the pioneers of the web. Like the heroes of the old west they combine a rugged ingenuity with a bit of crude willpower to make a...
- Tags: AJAX, AJAX Developers
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Using FlexBook to show what Flex can do
- One of the better demos at this conference was Ely Greenfields Flex Book component. My favorite and I think everyone elses was the medical book that he used to show how pages in a book could be transparent. Daniel Wanja grabbed the screen shot below It seems like books...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Apollo public alpha coming in the next few weeks
- For those of you who have been waiting to see what the buzz around Apollo is all about, you wont have to wait long according to Mike Chambers. Mike says the first release will be targeted at Flex developers, but those interested in the Ajax side will still be able...
- Tags: Ajax, Apollo, Flex, Rich Internet Applications, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Adobe Engage: Virtual Ubiquity - BuzzWord
- Sorry again about the lack of pictures. For this app it really hurts because screenshots are hard to come by. When I get some, Ill make sure to post them. Theyre saving the best demos for last, and Virtual Ubiquitys word processor application, BuzzWord, looks like an awesome application....
- Tags: Adobe Engage, Virtual Ubiquity, Rich Internet Applications, Flex
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Adobe Engage: eBay's Internal Flex Applications
- eBay has been using Flex for a long time, since the 1.5 days and Tom Ortega is giving us a view of some of their internal monitoring application. This is a refreshing presentation and while the application isnt pretty, its a look at how Flex does a great job of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Adobe Engage: Designer Developer Workflow
- Sho is beginning by introducing Flex 2, talking about how the framework is free, the just-in-time compiler and that its based on the Flash Player. All pretty basic stuff. Hes now talking about the typical workflow and dividing people up into three categories. Information Architect/Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, Motion Designer,...
- Tags: Devigner Workflow, Design, Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Adobe Engage: Chafic Kazoun - Atellis
- Chafic Kazoun of Atellis showed us SimCube, an appliance theyve built that runs a Flex 2 application which is now testing 25% of medical students in the US. The application and the device are hooked to a medical test body with sensors throughout so you can test and see the...
- Tags: Flex, Atellis, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Adobe Engage: Acesis
- Were getting the first look at a an application by Acesis, a medical company that brings clinical data capture to Rich Internet Applications using a Flex 2/Apollo application. Theyre showing a role play that you might see take place between a doctor and a patient. They walk through a test...
- Tags: Acesis, Apollo, Rich Internet Applications, Flex
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
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