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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.
 Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and develope...Oct. 13, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,327 |
Conference Theme: Beyond AJAX to the Rich Internet Application & Rich Interactive Experience Era. Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or b... Oct. 12, 2008 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,783 |
Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform, Chuck Freedman, will explore an evolution in web communication. With the growing demand of RIA and voice-over-the-web solutions, developers finally have a full suite of communication APIs to add to Flash. Coding with Ribbit, Freedman will demons... Oct. 10, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,069 |
Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from tradit... Oct. 9, 2008 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,293 |
 Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com...Sep. 29, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 34,151 Replies: 2 |
 Two months ago, I’ve created a group called Adobe Flex Experts on LinkedIn. More than 100 Flex developers/bloggers joined this group since then. I posted there the following question: "If you could add just one feature or suggest an improvement, what would it be? Please keep the respon...Sep. 29, 2008 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,876 |
 Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still ope...Sep. 28, 2008 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,204 |
 Adobe put Creative Suite 4 (CS4), its updated flagship, in play the other day, introducing new tiered upgrade pricing and making the web-publishing package – a collection of 13 programs like Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash – faster and more facile at repurposing design content across ...Sep. 25, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,014 |
 Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform, Chuck Freedman, will explore an evolution in web communication. With the growing demand of RIA and voice-over-the-web solutions, developers finally have a full suite of communication APIs to add to Flash. Coding with Ribbit, Freedman will demons...Sep. 20, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,016 |
 Adobe Flex and Flash are the ideal technology for Rich Internet Applications because you can build those applications with reusable components that are Loosely Coupled. In his session, learn how you can create an On-Demand Authoring Environment for creating Rich Internet Applications b...Sep. 20, 2008 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,055 Replies: 1 |
Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from tradit... Sep. 14, 2008 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,439 |
 It's simple and minimalistic, has a small memory footprint and is easy on the CPU. Flash player works fine on my Windows XP box. JavaFX developers should like it too.Sep. 13, 2008 01:10 PM EDT Reads: 8,382 Replies: 2 |
Alfresco Software announced that Adobe has implemented Alfresco’s document sharing and collaboration capabilities as part of the file sharing features in Acrobat.com. Adobe chose Alfresco as its content repository for its clustered high-availability, security, and highly capable techn... Sep. 2, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,531 |
 I have recently released a new benchmark called GUIMark. GUIMark is kinda like an Acid3 test on speed that’s geared towards RIA technologies. The goal was to figure out how to implement a reference design in different runtimes and then benchmark how smoothly that design could be animat...Aug. 17, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,696 Replies: 1 |
Clear Toolkit 3.0 is a set of components, code generators, and plugins created by software engineers of Farata Systems that they were using internally in multiple Flex enterprise projects. This toolkit will be available free of charge. Aug. 16, 2008 06:41 AM EDT Reads: 3,196 |
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. Aug. 11, 2008 04:33 PM EDT Reads: 6,778 |
In this session Thomas will share his experience in migrating from AJAX to Flex, the advantages/disadvantages that Flex has as the primary client for a consumer web-based SaaS product, and his vision of how Flex + AIR via any desktop + Mobile (in one or more technical forms) takes us a... Aug. 11, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,078 Replies: 1 |
Vaulthouse has launched its flagship product aimed at companies that deal with insurance claims. ClaimAble is an innovative claims management solution based on the Adobe AIR framework, enabling a desktop-like experience to be delivered over the web. Aug. 8, 2008 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,437 |
 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...Aug. 4, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,720 |
4D announced the release of 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2. The new version, a combination of two products - 4D AJAX Framework and 4D for Flex - brings a powerful set of tools, plug-ins, and components that allow 4D developers to harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies, and deliver li... Jul. 25, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,613 |
Yesterday, a new component architecture and feature specifications were provided to the Flex SDK open source developer community. The Flex team targets three primary teams: design in mind, developer productivity, and framework evolution. Jul. 15, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,448 |
 Adobe says it's going to 'dramatically improve' the search results of dynamic web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs) for Google and Yahoo by giving them optimized Flash Player technology. This new widgetry, which will read and index SWF files, is supposed to uncover informat...Jul. 9, 2008 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,369 |
Food Dial is not just a book of recipes. Here's the big idea - you came back home, tired and hungry. Start the Food Dial application and open the fridge. Here's the red pepper. Turn the dial with food categories... Jul. 7, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,172 Replies: 1 |
 Following the private Beta release last month, DreamFace Interactive announced the general availability of the DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Adobe Flex. As promised, DreamFace-Fx is the first Mashup Kit to reach developers in a comprehensive roadmap which will extend the DreamFace Open S...Jun. 30, 2008 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,586 |
 Flex is a great way to introduce rich Internet applications to your enterprise. However, in the real world, you often have to do it gradually. Most business units of any enterprise that are sold on RIA would prefer adding Flex-based components to their old but working Web 1.0 applicati...Jun. 30, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,346 |
 2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? T...Jun. 20, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 41,171 Replies: 2 |
Adobe has released a substantially enhanced BPM/RIA solution. While LiveCycle suite isn't new software, its popularity increased in June of 2007 when the entire suite started to run on the same J2EE server and the RIA components were introduced. Today, over 5,000 enterprises use LiveCy... Jun. 17, 2008 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,160 |
I received an email stating that AOL finally abandoned the ugly Java applet that was used in the ICQ2Go, the Web version of the hugely popular (about 30M users) instant messaging system. The person who sent me this email also wrote, 'IMO this was the last popular Java applet. Now the k... Jun. 15, 2008 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,611 Replies: 6 |
Keynotes are often boring, but watching today's keynote from WWDC conference was just great. I do not want to repeat the facts about iPhone 3G. Needless to say that I'll buy a couple of them this summer. I do not want to bore you with the facts about the countless possibilities that op... Jun. 12, 2008 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,787 Replies: 1 |
 From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 100,438 Replies: 2 |
 Adobe says Acrobat 9.0, a major upgrade, will be available in July and in three different versions: Standard, Pro and Pro Extended. It will be sold standalone and Pro will be integrated into Adobe's Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium and Standard editions. CS 3.3 is also due in July.Jun. 10, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,886 |
 Adobe, which is not exactly unfamiliar with the concept of the free giveaway, has put out a public beta of a simple version of its popular Photoshop photo-editing software for free over the web. Think of it as an answer to Google's Picasa. It's called PhotoShop Express and Adobe says i...Jun. 5, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 14,278 |
 Adobe has put out three free public betas: Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth, all of which will be part of the next-generation Creative Suite when it arrives. Its delivery date is still a big secret. The betas are only good for 48 hours once they're downloaded unless you're a Creat...May. 30, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 8,262 Replies: 3 |
 Google is opening up App Engine to one and all. The cloud-sharing gambit meant to entice developers to build their web applications on the same infrastructure that powers Google's own applications - and in the process lock them into Google instead of Microsoft - has been in beta for th...May. 30, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 8,254 Replies: 1 |
 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 offic...May. 30, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,719 |
Google's Web Toolkit Release Candidate 1.5 will be available later this week. That's the stuff programmers can use to develop and debug web applications in Java and then deploy them as highly optimized JavaScript. That way they're supposed to be able to sidestep common AJAX headaches l... May. 29, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,728 |
 We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services becomes an important part in designing and implementing SOA. But if you decide to develop rich clients, you'll be facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with...May. 29, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,215 |
 Adobe has published their first plan of what should be included in Flex 4 that is scheduled to release next year. Since Flex is an open source product, you have a say in this too. Obviously, there's a hope that upcoming Thermo release will bring together developers and designers. I'm c...May. 29, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 21,027 Replies: 3 |
The popular code generator Clear Data Builder will become available free of charge. Originally, Clear Data Builder was released as a command-line open source code generator a.k.a. DaoFlex. We've submitted it to Adobe Flex component exchange about two years ago, and it quickly became on... May. 29, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,509 |
I like reading stuff in pdf format. But it's even better if you can easily create pdf files. By easily I mean a button click. Literally.Since I have Adobe Acrobat, my Microsoft Word and PowerPoint just have an extra menu to create it. But it's kinda boring. Let me share with you a cou... May. 28, 2008 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,739 Replies: 3 |
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