Product Reviews

Farata Systems Achieves Performance Breakthrough with Adobe BlazeDS

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:56:00 EDT

Live Cycle Data Services is an excellent solution for building scalable RIA, but it’s not cheap. For those who don’t have a budget for LCDS, Adobe has released open sourced BlazeDS as a scaled down implementation of AMF. But BlazeDS is a lot more scalable than one may think.

LiveCycle ES 8.2 is a solid platform for business process management

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:33:00 EDT

I'd like to share with you my experience of working with LiveCycle ES 8.2. This strong player in the BPM space version has been released in July of 2008.

Product Review: Adobe Flash Player 10

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:15:00 EDT

I might have skipped some of the new features of Flash Player 10, but you can always refer to the official FAQ page. Visit Plash Players 10 page on Adobe Labs to download new player (there is no debug version yet). The standalone debug versions are also available. You can use the official demos and Flash Player 10 API documentation to build your applications using special version of Flex SDK. Adobe's Flash Player team made a substantial progress with new release of this very solid VM, which makes it even more solid platform in the RIA space.

Book Review: Advanced AJAX by Shawn M. Lauriat

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Because AJAX moves so much application logic from the server to the client, it forces many developers to master a wider range of web technologies than ever before. To work effectively on AJAX projects, front-end developers have to concern themselves with database performance, business logic and other server-side concerns. Back-end and middleware developers, meanwhile, have to make friends with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and a wide range of browsers.

A Quick Analysis of BlazeDS Offering

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST

Release of BlazeDS is a great help from the Flex enterprise adoption perspective. On the technical side, BlazeDS provides a lightweight replacement for LiveCycle Data Services ES. The remoting part seems to be identical to the LCDS offering. But how the LCDS implementation is different from BlazeDS? What's under the hood?

Boost Productivity of Your Flex-Java Project with Log4Fx Component

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:30:00 EST

It's hard to overestimate the importance of having a good logging facility when you develop distributed applications. Did the client's request reached the server-side component? What did the server send back? Add to this inability of using debuggers while processing GUI events like focus change, and you may need to spend hours if not days trying to spot some sophisticated errors. That's why a commercial-grade logger is a must if you work with an application that is spread over the network and is written in different languages such as Adobe Flex and Java.

MX Kollection 3 by InterAKT Online For Macromedia Dreamweaver

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:15:00 EDT

Web development is a changing industry. Technologies are born, thrive, and then die, while web developers experience a great stress helping their clients get an Internet presence. Nowadays, the buzz word in web development is 'dynamic.' Not 'dynamic' as in DHTML, but as in 'using a database.'

Using Electric Rain's Swift 3D 4.5 With Macromedia Flash. It Rocks!

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:00:00 EDT

It may only be a point release but that doesn't mean that Electric Rain, makers of the #1 3D modeling software tool for Flash animators hasn't come out swinging. What you'll find with this new release is a tight focus on the rendering options in Swift 3D.

Macromedia Announces ColdFusion MX 7 - Live on SYS-CON.TV

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

'The new version of ColdFusion extends the Internet to mobile devices and delivers groundbreaking rich forms support, reporting, and printing solutions,' says Gruber, ColdFusion product manager at Macromedia on his SYS-CON.TV interview today with MX Developer's Journal chief-editor Charles Brown.

Review: Xcelsius from Infommersion

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

One thing was abundantly clear at the 2004 MAX conference in New Orleans: the third-party Flash market is growing rapidly. This is due to Macromedia's decision to provide APIs and open standards. The result of this decision is that the Flash developer will now have a virtual cornucopia of exciting new tools that will increase productivity and flexibility.

Captured by Captivate

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

As an educator with a post-secondary institution I have had something of a ringside seat watching the evolution of e-Learning. My biggest complaint was that, in general, most institutions getting into the game just 'didn't get it.' Their approach to the process was to create what I called 'digital in-baskets' where the student completed the work and sent it in as an e-mail attachment. How they could regard this process as 'distance learning' or the 'digital classroom' was a mystery to me.

Extension of the Month

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Massaging user input is one of those tedious jobs most Web developers would rather do without. But if someone leaves out important data while filling out a Web form, your Web application might not work - after all, how can you e-mail a user his weekly newsletter if he forgot to enter his e-mail address in the sign-up form? Even worse, bad data can bring a Web application to its knees.

NeXTensio2

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

As a developer who often finds myself with less time to develop projects than I would perhaps like, the lure of purchasing a plug-in that saves time on database creation is more than a little tempting. This is what the NeXTensio2 plug-in offers for PHP-driven systems that use Dreamweaver.