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 Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and an Adobe Solution Partner, today announced the general availability of ColdFusion 9 in its Cloud and Dedicated environments. Hosting.com is the first provider to launch ColdFusion 9's avail...Oct. 30, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 510 |
 An Israeli company called Red Bend has sued Google’s Chrome browser for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts. It says Chrome’s Courgette differential compression algorithm treads on its widgetry. Courgette, which launched in July, sends just partial application up...Oct. 30, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 563 |
 Web Page Performance was one of the big topics at the Ajax Experience in Boston this week. Steve Souders - author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites - talked about the top things to look into when analyzing web page performance.Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 433 |
 When creating and designing your website and blog, do you want to create your own web player to present videos? It's time to get your own player with Moyea PlayerBox, which facilitates player creation and player skinning with new version.Oct. 29, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 289 |
 One might think that a school district software is an easy case when it comes to performance and scalability. Now think of the end of a marking period when everyone is working with progress reports? From this interview you can learn how Neoload, one of the popular stress testing softw...Oct. 28, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 402 |
 Eolas Technologies, whose overarching browser patent claims struck fear in the heart of World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee and left Microsoft, a test case for the industry, significantly poorer, filed a massive patent infringement suit in the infamous Eastern District of Texas this...Oct. 6, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,260 |
 Adobe is nosing its flagship ColdFusion rapid web site and Internet application development platform onto multiple clouds. Turns out it's been quietly collaborating with Alagad, a North Carolina web development services provider, on a cloud implementation of ColdFusion 9. Adobe just re...Oct. 6, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,363 |
 Adobe Systems has announced Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), a software release enabling businesses and governments to build applications that improve interactions with customers and constituents across devices and channels. Delivering significant productivity improvements to ...Oct. 5, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,687 |
 Today, Adobe announced a major release of LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), an SOA architecture for automation of document processing, RIA, and process management. It’s an enterprise platform for SOA that brings together various technologies and tools including LiveCycle Data Servi...Oct. 5, 2009 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 1,149 |
 I’d like to offer you a legal way to get more than 80% off the registration price at Adobe MAX that will take place next week in Los Angeles. But you have to move fast!Sep. 30, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 449 |
 A New Jersey outfit called Textscape LLC sued Adobe in a California federal court last Friday claiming that Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which must be on every computer in the universe, treads on its patent for processing text. It's asking for unspecified damages. The widgetry involved lets...Sep. 30, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,836 |
 Before the New York version of its International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is about to be held again in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center, 2-4 November, 2009), SYS-CON.TV invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the ...Sep. 28, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,023 |
 I try to go easy on frameworks in the classroom, because there could be lots of non-technical reasons for adopting this or that framework. I also know that people who created frameworks are seasoned developers with their vision of how things should be done. No disrespect here. But if t...Sep. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 940 |
 Ok, so, here are my thoughts on Ulitzer... As a blogger, I focus on traffic and I spend quite a lot of time optimizing my SEO. Since the target audience of my articles is much greater than the reach of my blog, Ulitzer is actually helping me increase my content reach. Moreover, Ulitzer...Sep. 26, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,595 Replies: 1 |
 In ten days I’ll be sitting at the general session at Adobe MAX 09 in LA. People from Adobe will come up on stage one after another delivering the latest news on the products we all use daily. Here’s my short wish list of the news I’d like to hear. I’m sure people who are using Creati...Sep. 23, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,423 |
 Adobe has put out what it calls Flash Platform Services for Distribution, an online, hosted, pay-per-use service for advertisers and content publishers to promote, measure and monetize web applications and games across social networks, desktops and mobile devices. The widgetry is suppo...Sep. 21, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,395 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Fig Leaf Software, a full service Web design, development and training company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), which will take place on October 6, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washin...Sep. 21, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,184 |
 Brightcove has announced that it has rolled out broad support for Adobe(R) Flash(R) Media Server 3.5 through content delivery services provided by Limelight Networks, providing more than 700 customers in 28 countries with turn-key access to enhanced dynamic delivery capabilities for HD...Sep. 21, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 654 |
 Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Platform Services for Distribution, a new service that enables advertisers and content publishers to promote, measure and monetize applications across social networks, desktops and mobile devices. Adobe Flash Platform Services are o...Sep. 21, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 839 |
 Today, Adobe made a very interesting announcement - Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution is available to the public. To put it simple, it’s a new way of distributing, promoting, and measuring the usage of your applications on the Web.Sep. 21, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,313 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) refers to the tools used to build software applications (software programs) in the cloud. Think of it as a cloud-based development environment for building and managing software applications. These custom-built applications are then hosted on infrastructure...Sep. 20, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,051 |
 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: 1,469 |
 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: 669 |
 Even though it's considered bad practice, it's often handy to eval code in JavaScript. And in my case, it was simply necessary, since the JSF specification requires eval of scripts. And it's also necessary to execute those evaluated scripts in the global scope. It's not as easy as it ...Sep. 8, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,346 |
 Eucalyptus Cloud Journal Launched on Ulitzer. Eucalyptus is an open-source system for implementing on-premise private and hybrid clouds using the hardware and software infrastructure that is in place, without modification. Eucalyptus adds capabilities such as end-user customization, se...Sep. 7, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,487 |
 In 2006 Microsoft began releasing a series of designer focused tools. The big question was: Why? Adobe has the best tools, doesn’t it? There is no doubt that Adobe’s tools are very good, what is clear, however, is that Microsoft is taking design seriously for this to be accomplished Mi...Sep. 7, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,666 |
 I got an email from an enterprise architect considering Adobe Flex as a platform for Web application development in their organization. This email contained a well prepared list of questions/remarks/concerns that many of enterprise Web architects may face. That’s why I decided to pub...Sep. 3, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 916 |
 First of all, to add a little more credibility to what I’m about to write, let me just say that I’m running Princeton Java Users Group (JUG) for years and have a pretty good idea of how organization of the meetings and sponsorship work in such gatherings.
Java community is huge, wel...Aug. 19, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,138 |
 Enterprises are increasingly being called upon to provide a high level of user experience with compelling and interactive content. Serving enterprise content and data securely to internet / intranet has become a very common necessity and is routinely handled by web servers. Web service...Aug. 17, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,082 |
 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: 1,309 |
 Flex framework includes a pretty useful object that deserves more attention: mx.util.ObjectProxy. You can wrap your object (i.e. Person) into this proxy which will obediently report on all changes that are happening to this instance of a person. If you subclass ObjectProxy, you can ev...Aug. 12, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,362 |
 In general, creating of such a simple Yes/no site can save lots of money to the vendors of any other commercial software. Say, your firm runs an e-commerce Web site GreatOnlineStore.com. When your server is down, the phone lines of your customer support get swamped (and you pay for ...Aug. 6, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,058 |
 Each real-world software developer knows at least one design pattern – Singleton. Flex has some specifics in implementing Singletons due to lack of private constructors in ActionScript, but the goal of this little writeup is not to show you how to implement Singleton, but rather to dis...Aug. 5, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,519 |
 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: 1,560 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: 3,107 |
 Rackspace Hosting Thursday open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
It says it worked with developers in an open community to create the specifications and they can now copy, implement and modify t...Jul. 23, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,529 |
 Bernie Borges' new book: Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyers through Social Media Marketing. Bernie's book aims to give a macro view of social media marketing with a focus on "what it is" and "how" small and medium size businesses (SMB) can develop a strategy, imp...Jul. 21, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,963 |
 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: 3,284 |
 "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: 10,668 |
 Engine Yard is preparing for Ruby growth in the next 12 months and beyond with its latest offerings: Engine Yard Cloud and Flex. Engine Yard Cloud is a services platform that leverages 100 man-years of experience deploying, managing and scaling some of the world's largest Rail sites an...Jul. 21, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,202 |
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