I recently gave a presentation on Flex frameworks at the New York Flex Users Group. More than 50 people showed up, which proves that this is an important topic. By the end of the presentation the temperature in the room had increased because an innocent talk had turned into a heated di...

Flex or AJAX? Which one is better? Which one will 'win' in the RIA space? I am tired of this argument. I'm tired of seeing blog posts keeping this debate alive. It's a non-issue, really. I think that people make it an issue when they try, or investigate, each technology and find one ea...

Yesterday I realized that Friday's calendar was wide open, so I decided to take the Adobe Flex 2 Developer Exam. I knew plenty of other ways to kill a Friday, but I had to take this exam. I had no choice.

This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a continual...

Robert X. Cringely thinks Apple should buy Adobe. In an article published on the National Public Radio website discussing Apple's future, he lays out some goals for Apple on its quest to desktop dominance: an important link in this chain, according to Cringeley, is the aquisition by Ap...

Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company...

JavaFX is a little-too-late response from Sun to the rapidly growing community of the languages, tools and techniques for development of the Rich Internet Applications. Fine, let's give JavaFX some time, it's still too young. But what can you expect from a scripting language built on t...

The growth of Flash and AJAX in Web applications is driven by real market needs - applications that are visually compelling and simple to use gain faster adoption and can be a competitive differentiator, enabling customers, employees, and partners to interact effectively with informati...

The recent years of Web development have been marked by several important events. In the Flash world, we have seen a constant evolution of the technology. From a developer's point of view, Flash started to be really usable with the introduction of ActionScript 1.0 in Flash 5 and the im...

Ryan Stewart believes that by far the most powerful feature of Adobe 'Apollo' will be its ability to give AJAX developers a way to run their applications in a desktop environment.

With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it's easy to ignore another-this time velvet-revolution. E-commerce 2.0 is coming into maturity and getting ready to relieve its now 10+ year old predecessor. It's about time.

On August 14, I attended the seminar RealWorld Flex in New York City. I was really impressed by the endless number of presentations showing the use of Adobe Flex 2 technology in the real world applications. Real-time processing, vector graphics, collaboration, messaging, multimedia, ...

In this article you'll learn how to create a basic content management system using Adobe Dreamweaver 8 and KTML 4 Lite edition. You can use this system to manage content for an online newspaper, a company presentation Web site, or a site with articles. At the end of this article users ...