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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.
 Adobe launched a new version of the Adobe AIR Marketplace—a user-friendly, online destination showcasing developer applications powered by Adobe AIR. Feb. 10, 2009 01:22 PM EST Reads: 1,046 |
 One of the main selling points of Adobe AIR is its ability to support occasionally connected applications. See a demo application that implements data synchronization using Adobe AIR, BlazeDS and Clear Toolkit Feb. 6, 2009 05:20 PM EST Reads: 1,632 |
 Adobe announced at that Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 software are being installed in record numbers by consumers and companies around the world. In less than one year after its initial release, there have been more than 100 million installations of Adobe AIR. Additionally, Adobe...Jan. 29, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 1,869 |
 Today at Adobe MAX Japan, Adobe announced that Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10, key components of the Adobe Flash Platform, exceeded installation numbers in record time. Jan. 29, 2009 07:33 AM EST Reads: 1,595 |
 I'll write my first JavaFX article for Java Developer's Journal in February. BTW, have you seen a new look of JDJ and Flex Developer's Journal? Expect some more very interesting announcements from sys-con that may turn you into a published author. Just keep an eye on the word Ulitzer...Jan. 28, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,254 |
 Adobe says it’s going to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. Think AMF, SWF, FLV and F4V formats compatible with Adobe Flash Player. The RTMP disclos...Jan. 22, 2009 11:00 PM EST Reads: 1,899 |
 There are three ways of creating PDF documents from Adobe Flex applications: by using the forms/LiveCycle designer, by treating PDF printing as one of the features of your Flex application, and by using Snapshots available in LCDS, which uses bitmaps to represent Flash content. This ar...Jan. 22, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 17,847 |
 Adobe says it’s going to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. Think AMF, SWF, FLV and F4V formats compatible with Adobe Flash Player. The RTMP disclos...Jan. 22, 2009 07:25 AM EST Reads: 2,674 |
 Auto-Graphics has announced the development of AGent Iluminar, a next generation Web Services application for the company’s library automation platform. AGent Iluminar was built using the free open source Flex framework, which provides end-to-end development of rich Internet applicatio...Jan. 22, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,765 |
 Midnight Coders has launched WebORB PDF Generator, a solution consisting of a SDK and runtime PDF generation engine that enables Flex, Flash, AJAX and Silverlight clients to create PDF documents from application data. The product is designed for organizations that need to support compl...Jan. 14, 2009 06:55 AM EST Reads: 8,207 |
 Adobe Monday means to announce that it has made its long-standing LiveCycle ES software accessible through Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3), figuring that this “sandbox in the sky” scheme will create more LiveCycle ES apps faster.Jan. 12, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 8,147 |
 Adobe and Intel plan to collaborate on porting Adobe’s Flash widgetry to Intel’s Media Processor CE 3100, a way to put Flash-enhanced web content and rich Flash applications on television. The chip is bound for cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail-connected...Jan. 6, 2009 04:05 AM EST Reads: 3,966 |
Across Systems, the provider of the Across Language Server, and IAI (Institute for Applied Information Science at Saarland University) have expanded their relationship and broadened the integration of their two technologies. The direct connection of the Controlled Language Authoring To... Jan. 3, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,413 |
 Adobe’s AIR for Linux, the runtime engine that supports rich Internet apps (RIAs), has caught up with its Windows and Mac siblings. The company has released AIR 1.5 for Linux, the first time the Linux desktop variant has made it as a production-grade, Adobe-supported release. And now a...Dec. 17, 2008 11:59 PM EST Reads: 2,843 |
Pretty often, Flex communicates with POJO that does not directly connects to DBMS using JDBC. The enterprises may use some object-relational frameworks, Web Services or any other means of working with data. Eclipse plugin Clear Data Builder 3.1 includes a new feature – CRUD generation... Dec. 10, 2008 02:35 PM EST Reads: 3,677 Replies: 2 |
 On December 4, JavaFX 1.0 has arrived to this world with lots of "It's a Boy" balloons. The family of RIA development tools gets bigger. Java developers should definitely start experimenting with this new kid on the block.Dec. 8, 2008 03:30 PM EST Reads: 4,954 Replies: 1 |
Adobe and SpringSource have created an alliance for developing software for enterprise Java developers who are using Spring framework on the server side and Adobe Flash platform on the client. The improved integration between the two will be offered for the developers who utilize eithe... Dec. 8, 2008 02:04 PM EST Reads: 3,477 |
 As fate would have it, Adobe picked the worst possible quarter to roll out the great update to its flagship Creative Suite widgetry. Because the economy is tanking, it hasn’t been selling the way it was supposed to. As a result, revenues came up short in the November quarter and Adobe ...Dec. 5, 2008 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,626 |
 It's a wonder it has the entry fee, but Sun Thursday showed up for the RIA race against Adobe’s Flex, Flash, and AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight – and for that matter the open source AJAX – riding JavaFX 1.0. According to Sun it's one of the most significant advances ever to come out o...Dec. 4, 2008 04:32 PM EST Reads: 4,572 |
 Adobe and ARM are gonna put Flash Player 10 and AIR, the stuff of web video and rich Internet apps, on ARM widgets by the second half of next year. They mean phones, set-tops, MIDs, TVs, car mojo and personal media devices, which have so far only had access to Flash Lite, not the best ...Nov. 24, 2008 10:30 AM EST Reads: 4,501 |
This is my final blog from the Adobe MAX 2008 conference. Nov. 24, 2008 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,744 |
New releases of Flex software were announced at MAX. How Flash Catalyst works. Nov. 20, 2008 10:10 AM EST Reads: 1,558 |
Notes from the openning day of Adobe MAX 2008 Nov. 18, 2008 07:06 PM EST Reads: 1,473 |
Of all domestic air carriers, I like Continental the most. They showed Mamma Mia and the food was bearable. Last month, I was in the air for 14 hours flying to Japan, and now the trip across the USA is a piece of cake. I have only carry luggage with me. This small bag has all the cloth... Nov. 17, 2008 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,919 |
I’ll just give you one example. Last week my colleague and I were running a private Flex workshop for software architects of a large corporation who are about to start development with Flex. Needless to say that they are smart and experienced software professionals. Some of them alread... Nov. 17, 2008 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,114 |
AIR adds to Flex has a pretty straightforward API for working with local files and directories. There is a simple mechanism of installing and upgrading AIR applications. If you want, you can digitally sign them too. AIR 1.5 introduces local encryption, which means that you can encrypt... Nov. 17, 2008 10:30 AM EST Reads: 3,610 |
 Reading conference speaker's agreements may reveal some interesting gems. Since I don't have a PR agent, I have to make the following public statement by myself: "I'm not going to damage anyone's reputation (including developers of PureMVC framework) for abuse of design patterns. I'm r...Nov. 14, 2008 05:30 AM EST Reads: 2,880 |
 The new release of IntelliJ IDEA supports the widest range of modern tools and frameworks, right out of the box. To name a few: UML, JBoss Seam, Spring 2.5, RESTFul Webservices, Flex Debugger, advanced Flex editor, and more Nov. 9, 2008 09:05 AM EST Reads: 3,382 |
 In a week, I’m going to San Francisco. This will be my first Adobe MAX conference. Five thousand people will attend this major technical event. My tracks are Flex and AIR. I’m arriving early, to attend one of the pre-conference workshops on Sunday. On Monday evening, I’ll be moderating...Nov. 6, 2008 05:30 AM EST Reads: 1,786 |
 Lisa Schmeiser this morning filed an InfoWorld story in which she writes about the results of her research on recession-proof IT jobs. Three skill sets appear in her story: Virtualization first, then AJAX, and then Ruby-on-Rails, among the Web 2.0 technologies. Virtualization and Cloud...Oct. 25, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,163 Replies: 4 |
 AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo launched today, the first day of the 6th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, a new iPhone Conference Scheduler program, in San Jose, California. The iPhone application has been developed by Chris Laffra of IBM, and it will also serve the delegates...Oct. 24, 2008 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,643 |
 “As people are starting to build AJAX apps, the content is getting more opaque,” said Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch during his keynote address at the 6th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo earlier this week in San Jose, California. “It’s getting harder to find things with search engine...Oct. 24, 2008 03:20 AM EDT Reads: 2,617 |
 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.Oct. 22, 2008 03:56 PM EDT Reads: 8,337 Replies: 3 |
 "There have been 4 different revolutions of software," said Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch this morning as he keynoted the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, California. The fourth revolution, in which we are rediscovering expressiveness on the Web and recovering wh...Oct. 21, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,088 |
This is an estimated 3 - 12 month contract position, throughVolt Technical Resources- a division of a Fortune 1000 publicly traded Staffing Industry Leader, which is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. We are among the largest IT staffing companies in the US for contract/temporary an... Oct. 20, 2008 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,245 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading technology book publisher Manning Publications named "Exclusive Book Publisher Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon... Oct. 15, 2008 05:23 PM EDT Reads: 2,103 |
 Sridhar Vembu, the CEO of Zoho, the online Office wannabe, sent a note around in the wake of Google’s Chrome announcement, claiming its impact “goes beyond the browser” and that the “biggest losers” are the “competing rich client engines like Flash and Silverlight.” Oct. 15, 2008 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,367 |
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software. Interactive designers and developers can leverage the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Flash Player 10 for unprecedented creative control to deliver ... Oct. 15, 2008 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 1,958 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Adobe Systems was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valle...Oct. 14, 2008 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,031 |
What if you could build the user interface prototype in a matter of days or weeks without a single line of server-side code or even a datamodel? What if the business owner could not only play with this prototype, but also provide context specific feedback seamlessly while exploring the... Oct. 14, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,004 |
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