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 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: 1,319 |
 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 |
 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: 1,491 |
 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: 1,230 |
 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: 1,688 |
 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: 3,283 |
 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: 2,792 |
 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: 3,293 |
 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: 3,549 |
 "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: 11,040 |
 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: 1,394 |
 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 |
 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: 2,666 |
 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 |
 Microsoft's Amazon-like Azure public cloud is four months away from going live.
The company confirmed Tuesday the widely held supposition that Azure would go commercial at its Professional Developers Conference in mid-November.
Microsoft also deigned to start explaining what it's...Jul. 14, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,266 |
 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: 2,651 |
 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 |
 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 |
 Citrix has released a public AMI ( Amazon Machine Image ) in the EC2 Cloud recently as part of the C3 Lab initiative with Amazon Web Services. XenApp Fundamentals is the new name for Access Essentials which is an ideal solution for SMB's looking for a simple way to administer and deliv...Jul. 4, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,081 |
 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 |
 This weekend I read a blog by a well known person in Flex community and found a very interesting phrase there:"If you take a careful look at Catalyst it flips the % of design and development work within an app. Where development was 80% of an app, it is now 20% and Design/Interaction w...Jun. 24, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,142 |
 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 |
 Broaching the hugely valuable enterprise market can be very intimidating for young startups. Large enterprises can be reluctant to work with smaller companies due to concerns about scalability and support. Sun Microsystems realized there is an opportunity here – Sun can supply a unique...Jun. 16, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,681 |
 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: 1,145 |
 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 |
 It includes an ActionScript component OfflineDataCollection that allows you to program local/remote data synchronization. Open source Clear Toolkit framework is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit/ The source code of the OfflineDataCollection is here: http://tinyurl.com/...Jun. 1, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,102 |
 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: 4,095 |
 “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 |
 “What would you think if I told you that you can develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you can with a typical Java framework?” Oops! Ten times faster! Well, after these comments I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. I need to know the true key of the productiv...May. 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,572 |
 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 |
 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 |
 Do you want to create a visual dashboard from existing widgets? Try a front-end mashup tool. These tools make it easy to create a personal dashboard that tracks your stocks, local weather, the time in 51 timezones and the current price of titanium.May. 9, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,306 |
O'Reilly has published an excerpt from the upcoming book on enterprise development with Flex. May. 8, 2009 09:14 AM EDT Reads: 623 |
 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 |
 Reading my previous AIR tutorials, you’ve worked with menus that are associated with tangible elements of your applications,
such as the following: Context menus that are activated on objects on the stage Context menus associated with icons in the system tray or dock bar Menus associa...Apr. 27, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,334 |
 Menus are an integral part of your life as a software user. You find them on the Web, in desktop applications, on your own operating system, and even on mobile devices like cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) . You often don’t realize how important menus are when you use...Apr. 24, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,425 |
 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 |
 This is the third part of the series dedicated to AIR menus (Chapter 6 of the Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development). The book is oriented to Flash developers interested in building desktop applications via Adobe AIR. You can preorder The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Develop...Apr. 17, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,105 |
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