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 The PDF format allows creating groups of mutually exclusive layers where showing one layer will automatically hide the other. These are called radio-button groups and defined using the RBGroups PDF keyword. One can also define which layers are visible by default and which are hidden, f...Jun. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,632 |
 New entrants, however, have a great opportunity to leverage UI and user experience to make their management apps more sticky and to appeal to a broader market. For example, the Bluebear guys have built a snazzy, intuitive multi-hypervisor virtualization management tool written in Adob...Jun. 1, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,137 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR software for Linux® operating systems is available on Adobe Labs (www.adobe.com/go/airlinux). The Linux community of developers can now use proven Web technologies, such as HTML, Ajax, Ad...Jun. 1, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,980 |
 Many Flex and Flash developers were waiting for these news for a year. The public Beta 1 of new Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 SDK (previously codenamed Gumbo) has been released by Adobe. First, about the name change. What used to be known as Flex Builder is Flash Builder n...Jun. 1, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,094 |
 “People are now expecting the same richness and ease of use in their workplace applications that they have in their daily Web experiences, but companies today are faced with strained development resources and less time to create intuitive applications,” said David Wadhwani, general man...Jun. 1, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,315 |
 Yesterday, my colleague and I received notifications from MAX 2009 (the main Adobe annual conference) organizers that started with words “We regret to inform you…we were forced to make difficult decisions, which topics wouldMay. 30, 2009 08:06 AM EDT Reads: 1,223 |
 I've just discovered (don't know how old it is) this new presentation web tool released by Adobe on Acrobat.com Labs. Acrobat Presentation is a Flex application that adds to Adobe's online collaborative offerings (with Buzzword). Presentation allows you to create slides using the Power...May. 28, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,309 |
 This advanced Flex workshop has been very well received in New York City and Boston. The next destinations are Toronto (July) and London (September). These are some of the topics covered during these two days of immersion into the Flex and AIRMay. 28, 2009 01:14 PM EDT Reads: 604 |
 Adobe announced that House of Fraser, a premium U.K. department store group with 62 locations across the U.K. and Ireland, has achieved higher conversion rates, increased average order size and greater customer retention with the Adobe® Scene7® hosted rich-media platform.May. 28, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,966 |
 "Mass psychology" scientists study this kind of phenomena and the "mass psychology of fascism" is of course the most famous lab case. The extraordinary experience SYS-CON Media lived through became part of a Forbes Magazine investigative cover story called "Attack of the Blogs" that fo...May. 26, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,423 |
 Three days of the best conference for Flex developers went by fast. I’ve been attending this great event for the first time, and in the future, I’ll try not to miss this #1 gathering for Flex developers. While Adobe MAX is a lot larger... May. 22, 2009 05:25 AM EDT Reads: 1,092 |
 Being a big fan of streaming media, I have quite a selection on my desktop from RealPlayer, to Windows Media, to YouTube favourites, to Adobes quite interesting Media Player and even Miro. I would have Hulu too if it supported content streaming outside t...May. 15, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,280 |
 This article is the first of two that will look at some of the challenges faced by developers and non-developers who work with PDF technologies and who are curious about what causes fonts in a PDF to render incorrectly or even go missing. Specifically, these documents provide an overvi...May. 14, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,793 |
 I'm happy to be able to disclose today that the Federal Government of the United States released its cloud computing RFI earlier this afternoon. Enomaly was fortunate to have been included in recent consultations with the government, and we've been impressed by the vision of this admin...May. 14, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,406 |
 During my recent visit to Ukraine I made a presentation in the local offices of Microsoft on various RIA technologies.After that, I've given a couple of interviews about outsourcing, careers of immigrant programmers in the USA and more.May. 12, 2009 05:09 PM EDT Reads: 1,402 |
 Today, the New York Times Company and Adobe launched a new version of the Times Reader—the electronic version of the newspaper with online/offline capabilities, powered by Adobe AIR. The enhanced version of Times Reader 2.0 resembles the printed paper even more closely, and content is ...May. 11, 2009 02:20 PM EDT Reads: 1,014 |
 Anark Corporation has announced that it has been accepted as an Adobe Systems Incorporated Solution Partner. Adobe's Solution Partner Program is designed for companies that provide solution-based sales, system integration, services, or extended products based on Adobe technology. May. 5, 2009 10:05 AM EDT Reads: 870 |
 Today I've discovered my new home page on the brand-new Ulitzer platform: http://marcocasario.ulitzer.com It's a new service (still in beta) that allows users to create their own magazine. Goggling on the net I found the following information about the service: Ulitzer titles will be p...Apr. 24, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,779 |
 As an Adobe Flex Certified Instructor (ACI) I had to update my certification to the new Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Exam in order to confirm my Flex ACI. So this morning I got and passed the Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Exam in a Vue center. The exam has changed a bit against the previous Flex 2 ve...Apr. 24, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 899 |
 While tidying up my library in the past days I've found some very old books I've used to study my first topics in the multimedia/web development filed.
I've discovered a book on Director 5, Perl, HTML 3 and the follwoing Macromedia Flash books: Flash 3 Web Animation (by Coriolis Pre...Apr. 23, 2009 12:07 PM EDT Reads: 557 |
 Ashton Kutcher on Twitter Magazine launched today on Ulitzer. The online magazine to offer live news and comments on Kutcher's Twitter journey. Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers an unli...Apr. 20, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,848 |
 In the first part of this article dedicated on AIR menus you've learned how to create an AIR native menu (read the full Creating AIR native menu with Flash CS4 - Part 1 article). In this new article you'll learn how to create an AIR submenu item using the NativeMenuItem class with Flas...Apr. 17, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,696 |
Participants will learn how to increase workplace sustainability with 'eco-effective' communication and collaboration workflows. Made possible though a generous sponsorship grant from Adobe, the eSeminar supports the ISC's mission to increase the understanding of sustainability best pr... Apr. 17, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,446 |
Learning Tree International has added a new course to its Adobe products-related curriculum entitled Adobe Flash: Developing Interactive Web Content. Over four days, an expert instructor will lead attendees through extensive hands-on exercises designed to provide in-depth experience cr... Apr. 17, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,026 |
 Spring is one of my favourite frameworks. It's an open source framework that helps a lot the developers' life to make it easier. Thanks to the Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern that Spring uses, it will save a lot of time in developing.
Luckily SpringSource and Adobe started a partne...Apr. 17, 2009 12:27 PM EDT Reads: 1,105 |
 Here’s the roadmap for Clear Toolkit 4 for the year of 2009: 1. Offer data syncrhonization solution for AIR/BlaseDS applications - March 2009 2. Enhance Flex UI component to support PDF generation on the client - April 2009 3. Release documentation on classes from Clear component libra...Apr. 15, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,017 |
 Tim Bray, a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems has been interviewed by InfoQ about the future of the Web. With all my respect to Sun’s engineers, I have to disagree with some of the statements Mr. Bray made.
Apr. 15, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,126 |
 Adobe and Facebook today announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Facebook Platform. Officially supported by Adobe and Facebook, the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook Platform is a free an...Mar. 31, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,766 |
 Today, I was discussing an architecture of a new Flex/Java application with my colleague, and we came up with even lighter architecture than the one I offered, Yakov, the gas station owner. But selling an architecture at a gas station is not the same as selling to Wall Street IT archit...Mar. 28, 2009 11:37 AM EDT Reads: 3,224 |
 A new agreement with Microsoft Corporation gives ArcGIS users fast access to Microsoft Virtual Earth for their geographic information system (GIS) projects. As part of ArcGIS Online at the ArcGIS 9.3.1 release, ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server users will be able to connect directly to ...Mar. 27, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,389 |
 Acresso Software announced a new, multi-year OEM agreement with Novell to provide a broader AdminStudio application readiness solution set to Novell ZENworks customers. Expanding on the capabilities available under a long-standing agreement with Novell, the complete AdminStudio Standar...Mar. 20, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,486 |
 This year can be labeled something like “Rich Internet Applications meet Enterprise Database by the way of full text search”. We are slowly getting used to the fact that off-the-shelf and free software can find related data out of million records within a second. The fact that the foun...Mar. 17, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,333 |
 This week Microsoft will make a number of announcements in the RIA space. The rumor has it that Silverlight 3 is going to be out. The rumor has it that it'll start competing with Adobe AIR. Let's take a quick look at the Adobe's progress report in the RIA space.Mar. 17, 2009 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,695 |
 ESRI's release of ArcGIS Business Analyst Server 9.3 brings an enterprise solution for collaborative business geographics to the marketplace. It enables the creation, sharing, and deployment of workflows and analysis across entire organizations, allowing for more sophisticated business...Mar. 11, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,728 |
 Adobe, the subject of a lot of Wall Street downgrades lately, pre-announced Wednesday and said it will fall short of its revenue target of $800 million-$850 million for the February quarter. Instead it should clear 30 cents a share (GAAP) on revenues of $783 million-$786 million. Seaso...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,376 |
 Yakov Fain, one of the top 3 Ulitzer bloggers, launched a new magazine on Ulitzer as a one stop shop for all Flex/AIR/Java developers who decided to use open source Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise rich Internet applications.Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,898 |
 The goal of this article is to give you a brief overview of some of the objects from clear.swc, which is a part of the open source Clear Toolkit Flex framework available at Sourceforge.
Mar. 5, 2009 09:53 AM EST Reads: 1,924 |
 Clear Toolkit is a framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java. It includes Eclipse plugins, enhanced Flex components and solutions for automatic data synchronization for AIR/BlazeDS applications. Now it's been open sourced under the MIT lice...Feb. 26, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 2,939 |
 "The economy might be cooling down, but the RIA market is definitely heating up," declared Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz recently in his widely-read industry blog. Schwartz was writing as Sun shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime - a download rate that makes it the fastest growing RIA...Feb. 24, 2009 08:45 AM EST Reads: 7,768 |
 Adobe Systems has announced the availability of the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player, a new, over-the-air mobile runtime. The new player enables developers and content providers to create Flash technology-based applications that target the latest version of the runtime, and di...Feb. 17, 2009 05:15 AM EST Reads: 1,147 |
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