On Monday October 20 in San Jose, California, the top Rich Internet Applications event of the Fall opens its doors: the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, with top industry keynotes from Microsoft's Silverlight supremo Scott Guthrie and Adobe's Chief Technology Officer...

The increasing integration of Adobe and former Macromedia products continues with Creative Suite 3, which is available in a version targeted specifically to Web developers and designers. Designers today - whether they started in an era of X-acto knives and border tape or have recently ...

Already, even in pre-release, Adobe's Spry seemed to catch the imagination of many Web professionals wrestling with how to integrate new AJAX frameworks into existing workflows. Created with designers in mind, Spry uses regular HTML tags, CSS, and JavaScript, and is easy to use - boili...

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?

Digital content is exploding; video on the Web is booming; Web 2.0 is hurtling toward us; and Adobe believes 'engagement' is the one word that best captures its strategy and encapsulates the competitive advantage that its fast-expanding product set gives to the developers and designers...

Once upon a time, Sun and Apple used to have about the same market cap. Today Apple has a market cap of $63BN while Sun's is just $17BN. Ahead of Sun, unbeknownst to many, is Adobe. Its market cap today is $18BN. For a company that in 1998 was worth 'only' $1.7BN it has not been a bad ...

The winds of change in the Web world have reached hurricane force right now, and nowhere are they blowing more fiercely than around that epicenter of weather activity that's been labeled 'Web 2.0.' There, a perfect storm is brewing.

The current storm of change in Web development and online business models, coming as it does together with a simultaneous revolution in the way that users are choosing to use the Web, is an opportunity for us all.

'Seems like a lot going on here,' wrote John Dowdell; 'The place is pretty packed. Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits,' wrote Flash guru Jesse Randall Warden. 'Loooots of demos. And that's exactly what I came for,' wrote arpit. The blogosphere has been giving its earl...

The advisability of eating in your own kitchen is something you often hear about, but never does it make more sense than when applied in the world of software development. Why accept that service-oriented architecture is a must for your mission-critical backend systems, for example, if...

One of the 'inflexion points' of the development of the Web, when commentators and analysts draw breath for long enough to chronicle its history, is certain to be the day that Google, through first Gmail and then Google Maps, opened the eyes of millions to the fact that the Web can be ...

A week is a long time in politics,' they always say; but a week in the world of technology is - on occasion - longer than anyone ever imagined. This week's MAX, for example, where many of you will have picked up this month's issue, may seem to rush by - with its sure-to-be-packed sessi...

On April 18, 2005, as we all know, Adobe Systems Incorporated announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. This is a look back, sideways, and forwards, based on what's been happening since then.

The same is true of the technology world. But nonetheless let us play a very simple guessing game: what technology was this well-known writer talking about when he recently wrote about how 'a technology that started out as nothing more than an animation program has morphed into a power...

In the world or architecture, as many of the designers among MX Developer's Journal's readership are well aware, there's a wonderfully erudite theory, with a equally wonderfully dumb name: Bigness.