By Daniel Baloche In today's complex web application world, developers need to test applications that go beyond simple HTTP-based pages. They need to test Rich Internet Applications that incorporate complex technologies like Adobe's Flex. Adobe Flex applications may be different from applications you wo... Jul. 19, 2008 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,062 |
By Flex News Desk 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 |
By Maureen O'Gara  A little Chicago ISV called LimitNone is suing Google for nigh on to a billion dollar charging it with misappropriating its trade secrets to beat back Microsoft Office. Seems a year ago March LimitNone shared its mojo for migrating Outlook users and their calendars and contacts to Gmai... Jul. 3, 2008 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,231 |
By RIA News Desk  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 |
By Yakov Fain  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: 5,345 |
By Flex News Desk AX 2008 conference is the main event for people interested in the software made by Adobe. MAX North America will take place in San Francisco MAX-2008 in November and the session schedule is published. This year its agenda includes more fifty sessions about Flex. Two more Flex events a... Jun. 29, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,161 |
By Max Katz  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: 41,158 Replies: 2 |
By SOA News Desk  Melding a stable enterprise architecture with the right level of technical and organization transparency involves two different perspectives. An architect can lay a SOA foundation that enables development teams to build new functionality leveraging Web Services. However, without a libr... Jun. 19, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,383 |
By Virtualization News  There has been much speculation about the security posture of virtualized environments. One identified vulnerability is the 'hypervisor' threat in which a hacker can break out of a guest OS and onto the host OS of a server. How great a danger is the hypervisor threat? What security bar... Jun. 19, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,850 |
By Virtualization News  Today, many organizations hear the term virtualization and still only think of the technology used in a datacenter. While this might be where virtualization started and has received a lot of attention, the next wave of virtualization is happening in connected devices through embedded t... Jun. 19, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,536 |
By Virtualization News Application delivery infrastructure firm, Citrix Systems' XenServer, has been chosen by managed web hosting company, INetU, for the launch of its new virtualization offering. INetU will be managing virtual servers for clients running Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux. Virtualization ... Jun. 19, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,362 |
By Virtualization News  There is plenty of discussion about virtualization, but who does it really benefit? How can enterprises adopt virtualization technologies to address real business problems? Is virtualization just another consolidation technology? How are other businesses using virtualization? Is there ... Jun. 19, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,550 |
By Virtualization News  This presentation will compare and contrast Web application virtualization solutions such as WebSphere Extended Deployment and hardware virtualization solutions. Particular emphasis will be provided on how the two solutions can be combined to provide the most flexible Web application h... Jun. 19, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,797 |
By Virtualization News  Astaro Corporation is a provider of Unified Threat Management security solutions. Its flagship product, the Astaro Security Gateway, simplifies Email, Web & Network Security and protects over 30,000 networks in 60 countries. Using the proven quality of a hardened Linux platform, the As... Jun. 19, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,751 |
By Maureen O'Gara  After failing to come to terms with Microsoft, and with antitrust regulators hovering in the background, Yahoo has gone and cut that death-defying deal on search advertising with arch-rival Google saying the agreement could clear $800 million in annual revenues. The deal is non-exclusi... Jun. 19, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,688 |
By SOA News Desk  SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. Data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful semantics embedded in data... Jun. 19, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,872 |
By Virtualization News  The patented, proven AppStream Management Suite offers virtual delivery, virtual execution and rule-based management for applications, serving end-user systems on the LAN, WAN and Internet from a central management console. AppStream's pull-based, on-demand software distribution platfo... Jun. 19, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,193 |
By SOA News Desk  WSO2 is an open source middleware company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation Web services community. WSO2 delivers a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA and built on Apache Axis2. WSO2's... Jun. 19, 2008 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,427 |
By SOA News Desk  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... Jun. 19, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,506 |
By Virtualization News  As virtualization becomes more widely deployed, and enterprises look for new ways to leverage this revolutionary technology, the consumption and delivery of this technology is changing. It is no longer one-size-fits-all and confined to a specific area of the data center, but instead is... Jun. 19, 2008 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,613 |
By Virtualization News Storage virtualization introduces a level of abstraction that sits between application servers and physical storage resources to provide centralized volume management and non-disruptive data mobility. These capabilities help storage managers improve productivity, capacity-utilization a... Jun. 19, 2008 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,992 |
By SOA News Desk JNetDirect provides software products for improving their customer's connectivity, integration, management and security to their data resources. Products include JDBC drivers, Business Intelligence, Database Management, Disaster Recovery/Backup solutions and Password Management applica... Jun. 18, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,179 |
By Virtualization News  Virtualization is not a new story; its technologies allow companies to meet new business needs and say goodbye to underutilized hardware platforms, power consumption, server sprawl and spiraling IT costs. The technology is here and the benefits are already proving to be fruitful. Howev... Jun. 18, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,777 |
By Virtualization News  As virtualization platform vendors strengthen and expand the feature sets of their respective offerings, it is almost a certainty that the data center in the future will include a heterogeneous mix of virtualization platforms as well as physical platforms. For organizations that are mo... Jun. 18, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,526 |
By Flex News Desk 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 |
By Yakov Fain 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 |
By .NETDJ News Desk Many .NET applications fail to meet user requirements because they do not provide optimal access to underlying Oracle, Sybase, or DB2 databases. The root cause is often unmanaged ADO.NET data providers shipped by the database vendor or from Microsoft. In this paper, SQL Server MVP and ... Jun. 11, 2008 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,425 Replies: 1 |
By Yakov Fain  Yesterday I realized that Friday's calendar was wide open, so I decided to take the Adobe Flex 2 Developer Exam. I knew plenty of other ways to kill a Friday, but I had to take this exam. I had no choice. May. 30, 2008 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,801 |
By Maureen O'Gara 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: 7,727 |
By SOA News Desk JNetDirect provides software products for improving their customer's connectivity, integration, management and security to their data resources. Products include JDBC drivers, Business Intelligence, Database Management, Disaster Recovery/Backup solutions and Password Management applica... May. 29, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,937 |
By Jesse Randall Warden  This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a continual... May. 27, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 61,383 Replies: 3 |
By James Ward I run 32-bit Linux but there is a very vocal group of people who really want 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player. Today there is a decent workaround for running the 32-bit Flash Player on a 64-bit Linux system using the nspluginwrapper. From what I've heard it works fairly well on mo... May. 27, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,112 |
By Virtualization News  Xsigo Systems announced that it has added two new channel partners in the United States to distribute its I/O virtualization technology to enterprise customers. By using Xsigo's technology, it is estimated that users can lower their server-related operating expenses by up to 80%, cut c... May. 23, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,350 |
By David Linthicum  It's what you don't see about the emerging Web that has everyone excited these days. Namely, it's the powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs. APIs are nothing new and have been traditionally cryptic and difficult to use. However, the advent of Web services along with the ... May. 23, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 14,370 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The Yahoo board is one short. Edward Kozel, a former Cisco CTO and now a VC and a Yahoo board member since October of 2000, tendered his resignation Thursday saying he meant to leave in February but stayed on because of Microsoft's unsolicited acquisition proposal. Now he's going to do... May. 23, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,992 Replies: 1 |
By Flex News Desk TopQuadrant has announced the general availability of TopBraid Live 2.0, a semantic application deployment platform that simplifies the creation of web services to a 'click and connect' process. Users can connect data from RDF stores, relational databases, spreadsheets, email, RSS feed... May. 21, 2008 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,452 |
By Flex News Desk Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta, code named 'Astro', builds on the capabilities of the world's most ubiquitous application runtime with new support for custom filters and effe... May. 15, 2008 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,531 |
By Yakov Fain Flex 2 was released in the Summer of 2006 and it was a mini-revolution in the RIA space. Almost nobody knew about Flex 1.5, but now almost everyone has at least heard about this software. Flex 3 was released in early 2008. It has a number of useful new features, but it was not a major ... May. 7, 2008 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,582 |
By Yakov Fain Many young programmers don't read books anymore. They google. They argue, 'When I need to find a solution it's just a click away. Why bother purchasing books that are outdated by the time of printing? Real programmers learn by doing - trial and errors'. I do not agree with this. May. 2, 2008 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,608 |
By Flex News Desk Today, Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. May. 1, 2008 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,480 |