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JavaFX Q&A

To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...

Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Sprout Builder

Create Flash content inside of a Flex app! by Ryan Stewart

Tags: App, Builder, Ryan Stewart, screenshots, sproutbuilder, flex, flash

Image galleries 2008-01-31

Live Documents

Screenshots from Live Documents Flex and AIR applications. by Ryan Stewart

Tags: Screenshot, Ryan Stewart, screenshots, flex, live documents, rich internet application

Image galleries 2008-01-15

Blist - A Flex database/spreadsheet in the cloud

A little while ago Mark Hendrickson posted about Blist [Screenshot Gallery] on TechCrunch. He described it as a web-based database application and gave it a pretty good review. The Blist team is up here in Seattle and they are one of my favorite startups. As a result, when I saw...

Tags: Application, Database, Spreadsheet, Blist, Blist Team, Flex, AJAX, Productivity, Research & Development, Storage, Databases, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Business Operations, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-29

SAP loves Eclipse and widgets (and Flex)

SAP's DemoJam is a competition for SAP customers, partners and employees to show off their whacky 'stuff.' Entries to DemoJam only have to abide by four simple rules: No PowerPoint Must be live running code Have business value Six minutes...

Tags: SAP AG, Eclipse, Flex, Operational Planning, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-17

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

Curl releasing report on rich Internet application platforms

Tomorrow Curl is going to be releasing a report of a study they commissioned by Sonata Software that examines three of the major enterprise rich Internet application platforms; Curl, Flex, and Ajax. The report is interesting for a number of reasons and provides at least some feedback on performance and...

Tags: Performance, Rich Internet Application, Tomorrow Curl, Flex, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Buzzword in action

Buzzword is one of the more anticipated rich internet applications in development and Michael Calore covered it today on Wired. I've been playing with the beta version for a while now and continue to be impressed by what they're doing. My wife has been using it for some of her...

Tags: Flex, BuzzWord

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Picnik - a Flex RIA in the Wall Street Journal

Rich internet applications are being adopted and "found" more and more all the time. The latest indication that we're moving to the main stream came today with an article by Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal about Picnik, a photo editing application that is built on top of the...

Tags: Picnik, Flex, Flash

Blog posts 2007-07-26

OSCON and rich internet applications

I just flew into Portland for OSCON and in looking over the session list it looks like it's going to be a pretty good conference for rich internet applications. Adobe doesn't have a booth, but James Ward and I are both going to be around and we're hoping to hold...

Tags: Adobe, AIR, Ajax, Flex, Google, Linux

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Mixbook - a rich internet application for creating real photo albums

Mixbook Photo Gallery launched a couple of weeks ago with a new take on Web 2.0 an monetization: actually giving users a product. Mixbook is a rich internet application that lets you create a digital photoalbum using a series of templates and photos that you upload to the site. Once...

Tags: Flex

Blog posts 2007-07-24

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

A Rich Internet Application for creating your own video game

I got a chance to check out My Game Builder, a Rich Internet Application that allows developers to create their own game worlds. It has a powerful building engine that lets you touch every conceivable part of the game and customize it down to the smallest detail. At first, the...

Tags: Flex

Blog posts 2007-06-19

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

To browser or not? It doesn't really matter

Rich Internet Applications have gotten a lot of great attention recently. The technologies and acronyms are blending together in a seemingly endless soup of technobabble. Part of that comes with any new technology and in the hyper-attentive world of the web people are quick to make judgments and even quicker...

Tags: Apollo, Experience, Flash, Flex, Silverlight

Blog posts 2007-05-28

Shantanu Narayen, Chief Operating Officer at Adobe on Apollo, Silverlight, and CS3

Knowledge@Wharton just published a great interview with Shantanu Narayen, the Chief Operating Officer at Adobe. In the interview he touches on almost all aspects of Adobe's product line including Creative Suite 3, Flash, Flex, and Apollo. He also talks about some of the corporate culture at Adobe and how it...

Tags: Flex, Flash, Apollo, Adobe, Silverlight

Blog posts 2007-05-16

BuzzWord slowly rolling out beta invites

BuzzWord, the Flex-based word processing application by Virtual Ubiquity that I covered here is starting to give out public beta invites to people that have signed up to try the application. The number of people being allowed in is still being kept small as the company scales the infrastructure and...

Tags: Flex, BuzzWord

Blog posts 2007-05-16