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Oct. 22, 2009
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Flex Developer's Journal News Desk covers all the technologies that undergird the Adobe Engagement Platform, including AIR, Flex, Studio, Creative Suite, Contribute, Acrobat, LiveCycle, CF, and Flash Lite.
 Cloud computing is in fact a real phenomenon and does create great technological and business value. Simply put, cloud computing allows one to build network applications without having to worry about the network. So far, so good; but what is the catch?Sep. 17, 2009 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,808 |
 Adobe said Tuesday during its earnings call that it’s buying publicly held Utah-based Omniture for ~$1.8 billion cash.
It’s not your most instantly intuitive acquisition ever and it’s costing a pretty penny at that. Adobe didn’t explain to its own people where the web researcher fi...Sep. 16, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,632 |
 Jaspersoft has announced the immediate availability of JasperReports Professional, now with Flash-based geo-visualization and advanced charting capabilities. Jaspersoft is also introducing a new low-cost JasperReports Professional Developer Edition, which will make it even easier to ge...Sep. 16, 2009 04:01 AM EDT Reads: 837 |
 Jon has a point; Microsoft’s restricted (i.e., Express) editions are as free as the open source alternatives. This is undeniably true, since the purpose of many software vendor’s “Express” edition is to compete against open source on price. However, the difference is that with open sou...Sep. 12, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,300 |
 First, yes, screen readers can read Flex applications. And yes, its fairly easy. But, I’ll discuss how in a future post.
But, if you’d rather send people to your old HTML version of your site when using a read, there is good news. Flash Player has the ability to detect if a screen r...Sep. 8, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,294 |
 Adobe recently released (August 2009) the Flex implementation of PMD tool which is extensively used at J2EE shops for code quality management. FlexPMD is a tool that helps to improve code quality by auditing any AS3/Flex source directory and detecting common bad practices.
The Flex PM...Sep. 4, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,168 |
 While many see Microsoft Silverlight as an Adobe Flash killer, I actually think Adobe should rejoice that Microsoft is competing with Adobe on its own turf (i.e., media plug-ins) rather than putting all its energy, as it once did, into Web standards and innovation (IE 5.0 was the most ...Aug. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,237 |
 Speed-Trap http://www.speed-trap.com the online customer insight software provider, today launches its analytics for adobe air applications, Speed-Trap's unique capability to capture and process detailed data on users' interactions with Adobe AIR applications, despite their being based...Aug. 26, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,719 |
 When a couple of months back I told a fellow Flex developer that I’ll be speaking at CFUnited, conference he shrugged, “Why ColdFusion?” Little did he know that CFUnited is branded as a ColdFusion, Flex and AIR conference. And this was true – there were lots of quality presentations o...Aug. 16, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,501 |
 The popularity of widgets these days has brought to attention the need for interoperability, i.e. for widgets developed for one site or platform to be able to run in other sites and widgets developed by different people to be able to work with each other.
So much so that I know of ...Jul. 30, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,972 |
 In this brief article I’d like to talk about one of the most important aspects of RIA in general and written in Flex in particular – the initial download process. You'll also see a screencast showing how designing each Flex application as a portal can make your RIA more modular and res...Jul. 29, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,699 Replies: 1 |
 Adobe Tuesday aimed two new open source Flash initiatives at media companies and other publishers.
The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), part of the Strobe project, is meant for building Flash-optimized media players.
The Text Layout Framework (TLF) is supposed to bring sophist...Jul. 26, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,282 |
 Adobe announced two new Adobe Flash Platform open source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers. The new efforts will help content owners extend their online media efforts, as they look to create new business opportunities and monetization strategies for publishing ...Jul. 21, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,548 |
 "By embracing Amazon Web Services to power this offering, Adobe combines its comprehensive enterprise solution with a cloud environment that knocks down barriers to productivity for enterprise developers worldwide,” said Kumar Vora, vice president and general manager for LiveCycle at A...Jul. 21, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,039 |
 Adobe announced two new Adobe Flash Platform open source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers. Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), part of the project previously code named Strobe, enables developers to quickly and easily build more robust, feature-rich media play...Jul. 21, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,558 |
 Engine Yard, the Ruby-on-Rails doyen, is supposed to announce its Engine Yard Cloud platform today along with Flex, a cloud service plan for production-level Rails applications.
The company says its Engine Yard Cloud leverages hundreds of man-years of experience in deploying, managi...Jul. 21, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,902 |
 The training covers the Flex client, Eclipse & Flex builder, the Flash virtual machine & how the Flex application development process is designed. It covers Actionscript, how events are handled, and layouts in a constraint based container. The material is similar to the first three day...Jul. 20, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,141 |
 Apple is a “change” company. Look at their track record: Mac II, iMac, iPod and now the iPhone. What has not changed, however, is the view of Apple a company that delivers only consumer based products. Apple simply is not perceived as an Enterprise company. Apple is working to change t...Jul. 17, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,663 |
 Gorilla Logic, firm known industry-wide for providing “gorilla” consultants that deliver a 10X productivity improvement over other options, today announced the release of FlexMonkey 1.0. FlexMonkey, an open source testing tool for optimizing automated and unit testing of Adobe Flex RIA...Jul. 16, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,644 |
 Modulation Index, LLC announced that the Tuner2 Hi-Fi Radio app for Apple iPhone is the first ever iPhone application to natively support the true RTMP protocol for streaming audio via Adobe Flash Media Server. Radio stations can now use a single standard streaming format to serve MPE...Jul. 16, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,254 |
 GetJar, the world’s largest independent app store, announced today that more than a half billion applications have been downloaded from its store. The milestone is significant because it proves that consumer demand for apps is becoming a truly global phenomenon. The company, which host...Jul. 16, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,635 |
 The Dell Download Store today added another top-tier software publisher – Adobe Systems Incorporated – to its U.S. roster of convenient, competitively priced downloads. Dell’s online software superstore, established in January, features downloads from a variety of publishers, including...Jul. 16, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,877 |
 With the arrival of .NET 3.5, WPF and the RTM of Silverlight 2, .NET developers have more choices than ever for designing, developing and deploying compelling applications with rich user interfaces. However, there are other mainstream alternatives that don’t fall into the .NET camp. Wh...Jul. 15, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,853 Replies: 1 |
 During the last several years our company have been involved in development of many enterprise Flex project. This article is an attempt to summarize challenges and offer solutions that we've developed, tested and successfully implemented for our customers.Jul. 14, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,648 |
 Adobe announced the public betas of Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder software. ColdFusion 9, a powerful development technology for building dynamic Web sites and Internet applications, increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise environments and delive...Jul. 14, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,582 |
 Adobe has re-opened the "Adobe Flex Builder 3 for unemployed developers" program. It means that
"Adobe Flex Builder 3" software is currently available for free, while supplies last, for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed...Jul. 13, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,203 |
 HTC has showed off its third Android phone, a little anti-fingerprint touch screen gismo called Hero that will surely be a hero to Adobe since it’s the first Android phone to support Adobe Flash. Flash Lite 3.1 to be precise, which should give users a more complete web browsing experie...Jun. 29, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,877 |
 Having built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I've seen a lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad. But no matter how many applications or who I'm talking to, I always stress the import...Jun. 26, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,515 |
 In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker l...Jun. 22, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 84,824 |
3 dimensional web is all about interacting with the content provider about their contents. The ability ask questions and clarification while checking a product from an online retailer. Jun. 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,310 |
 Acrobat.com, Adobe’s nascent, still-evolving online productivity software, moved out of public beta Monday and into its first foray into commercialization, ahead of any similar move into the cloud by Microsoft. The base widgetry will still be free but Adobe has created two paid subscri...Jun. 16, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,397 Replies: 1 |
 I've missed the Flash Camp Keynote in San Francisco where Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch mentioned that AIR reached over 200 million installs. The Adobe AIR Team blog wrote that the Acrobat.com application provided with Adobe Reader continues to be one of the most popular applications.
Unf...Jun. 16, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,232 |
Did you notice our subscribers list update? Now, you can receive Graphic Mania all posts and and free resources updates right to your email address, in full HTML and images. You can save the images and backgrounds you need directly to your computer and get the free resources download l... Jun. 16, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,106 |
 “Acrobat.com is poised to become the online destination for team collaboration, with the tools business people need to get work done faster, together, from anywhere. Our customers have moved from e-mailing multiple versions of documents back and forth to collaborating on documents dire...Jun. 15, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,556 |
 If you still can not adopt reading books from your computer screen, or do not like to waste your laptop battery charge for just reading a book, then I think Amazon Kindle is the best solution for you. I myself still can't give up reading from paper books as it is much comfortable for e...Jun. 14, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,081 |
 Awareness of the ISO standard for long-term archiving, PDF/A, has spread throughout Europe to the point that it is considered in nearly all projects. This was revealed in a survey performed by the PDF/A Competence Center at the end of 2008. A comparison with the results of the 2007 sur...Jun. 12, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,144 |
 Learn how to digitally sign your applications on Adobe® AIR™ with a VeriSign® Code Signing Digital Certificate, which verifies the authenticity of the publisher and the integrity of the product.
Jun. 4, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,458 |
 Adobe has planned three free online seminars next week that will walk through the new features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. (thanks to Mike Potter for the news) Here's the schedule of the events: Jun. 3, 2009 05:39 PM EDT Reads: 899 |
 Broadcom and Adobe Systems announced an engineering collaboration to enable hardware accelerated playback of high definition (HD) Adobe Flash technology based video content on platforms powered by Intel Atom processors. This collaboration paves the way for rich, seamless entertainment...Jun. 2, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,333 |
 NVIDIA, and Adobe Systems announced that they are collaborating as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, to leverage GPU video and graphics acceleration on a wide range of mobile Internet devices, includi...Jun. 2, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,025 |
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