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 Adobe Photoshop does not only provide extended capabilities with the new features, but also a better workflow with the new document presets. In this article, we will start by digging into how to use the presets feature in Photoshop CS4 to easily create different of documents.Apr. 17, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,852 |
 The AIR runtime allows you to manage and interact with the system tray and dock bar icons of your application. You can define context menus for them. On Microsoft Windows systems, the icons in the system tray don’t have any default context menus, so unless you have a specially prepared...Apr. 17, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,041 |
 Recently, Adobe acquired the online word processing application, Buzzword. The new free application provides a new promising idea about turning your word processing activity into the weband gives you the ability to share documents with friends. The new web application provides you the ...Apr. 16, 2009 09:31 AM EDT Reads: 625 |
 Have you tried to prepare yourself for PMP certification or exam? If so, then you share with me the opinion that most of the PMP books and guides are remarkable of hundreds of pages that are full of hard to understand complex sentences that leave you by the end of studying day dizzy an...Apr. 15, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,419 |
 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 |
 This article is about what processes I came from, my definition of the Agile/Scrum process, and how stress has been spread out throughout the project vs. at the end. Stay tuned for #2 in the Agile Chronicles series where I elaborate on the re-factoring challenges.Apr. 15, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,142 |
 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 |
 The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting experiences of the author using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on his current Flex project.Apr. 15, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,262 |
 This is the third article of the Agile Chronicles series. We'll talk about utilizing branches for each developer in Subversion, Merge Day, and how while cool, it’s an ivory tower process.Apr. 14, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,069 |
 Cloud computing offers a fantastic opportunity to businesses of all sizes. However, there are pitfalls that no-one wants to talk about. This session will talk to some of the darker sides to cloud computing - those around security and availability. Understanding where the issues lie wil...Apr. 13, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,478 |
 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 |
 This entry is about the joy of coding quickly, finding the balance between getting something done quickly vs. architecting for the future, and dealing with the massive amount of re-factoring that’s entailed in iterative Scrum development.Mar. 6, 2009 07:02 AM EST Reads: 1,106 |
 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 |
 Adobe Flex has gotten the Web2.0 development by storm and we see lot of Web2.0 Flex-based implementations these days. There are a lot of complex enterprise applications being developed in Flex. Many of these applications are getting huge in size and often take a lot of time to downloa...Mar. 4, 2009 11:49 AM EST Reads: 2,694 Replies: 2 |
 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: 7,770 |
 Some people measure a manager simply by their ability to get projects completed in a timely manner, others will define success by their ability to have a smart team under them, and some believe being able to back up team member with either business, operational or technical knowledge t...Feb. 20, 2009 12:55 PM EST Reads: 595 |
 Adobe announced the availability of the new Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, a software development kit (SDK) designed to enable companies to deliver mobile phones and handheld devices that can easily download, manage, and display PDF content and eBooks. The new software engine delivers suppor...Feb. 17, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,673 |
 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 |
 It has become very popular to build web sites that use and embed widgets from various providers. For example, MySpace and Facebook let their users easily embed various JavaScript widgets and Flash-based applications and videos onto their personal pages. In most cases, the widgets act...Feb. 17, 2009 04:55 AM EST Reads: 3,155 |
 What is important about programming languages is to understand the merits of each language and decide which one best suits the application, not only in technical terms, but also in terms of time-to-market, cost of development, availability of a skilled workforce etc.Feb. 17, 2009 04:10 AM EST Reads: 2,782 |
 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 |
 Responding to an article accusing Joel Spolsky that since his business has only 25 employees, Joel is not a successful businessman.Feb. 10, 2009 08:01 AM EST Reads: 1,383 |
 Management of IT organizations keeps covering the real situation with IT outsourcing. They punish employees for not keeping offshore teams busy.Feb. 8, 2009 06:25 PM EST Reads: 856 |
 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: 17,848 |
 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: 1,767 |
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