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An all-in-one (Adobe AIR) social networking application that's not a social site, but a tool that helps manage them all. Nomee simplifies online networking by organizing your contacts and interests all in one place. So you can focus directly on your people, not their sites. And your pe... Apr. 4, 2009 12:57 AM EDT |
In a tucked away room in the CTIA 2009 North Hall, Sprint and Palm are demonstrating a number of Pre applications for the first time. Earlier this afternoon we got a bit of footage of Classic, a PalmOS emulator by MotionApps' primarily intended for running any legacy applications you... Apr. 2, 2009 07:19 PM EDT |
Since it's now public I can announce I'm working on the second edition of my Flex Solutions book updating it to Flex 4 :
Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers
As a Flex developer, you'll no doubt come across repetitive problems every day in your work—wouldn't it ... Apr. 2, 2009 10:07 AM EDT Reads: 104 |
Since it's now public I can announce I'm working on the second edition of my Flex Solutions book updating it to Flex 4 :
Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers
As a Flex developer, you'll no doubt come across repetitive problems every day in your work—wouldn't it ... Apr. 2, 2009 10:07 AM EDT |
Uncertainty about cloud computing and an uptick in virtualization deployments are key trends in government IT, according to a survey administered at... Read more at VMblog.com. Apr. 2, 2009 08:59 AM EDT |
Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. Let’s take a look at some of the best and Fresh Adobe Illustra... Apr. 2, 2009 03:29 AM EDT |
Watch, search and monitor the public Twitter timeline in real-time with this Adobe AIR desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest. Apr. 2, 2009 01:32 AM EDT |
Many of the visitors to the AT&T booth at the VoiceCon 2009 are having their first experience of a TelePresence solution in action. Tina Vestal, customer care center manager at CHEP, perhaps sums it up best with her assessment -- "it's amazing!"Earlier this week, BAE Systems Land a... Apr. 1, 2009 07:16 PM EDT Reads: 237 |
Startup Nomee aggregates social networks and websites into a free Adobe Air powered desktop application that helps you manage these networks and sites into a single interface. The nomee personal all-in-one dashboard aggregates all your favorite social networking sites (you can manage... Apr. 1, 2009 07:45 AM EDT |
Yahoo has launched an Adobe AIR-powered desktop application called Sideline yesterday, once again validating the power of Twitter for real-time search. After taking it for a spin, I have to say it looks and feels really nice, but other than that there's no real incentive for me to keep... Apr. 1, 2009 07:14 AM EDT |
The early bird discount for the two-day Flex workshop in Boston expires on Monday, April 6. Details at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/295389518. Don’t say I didn’t warn you Those who are planning to learn Flex during weekends sho Apr. 1, 2009 06:06 AM EDT Reads: 107 |
The March Twitter MacBook Air Random Giveaway is now officially complete and the winner has been selected!
A big thank you to over 1500 contestants and participants, even those that joined Twitter simply to be eligible for this Apple Laptop giveaway. Thank you for all the great twe... Apr. 1, 2009 02:43 AM EDT |
I’ve been working with Adobe Flex since its beta and have been a long time believer in using Action Message Format (AMF) as the communication protocol. I’ve also been working with Adobe AIR since its beta, but had only used AMF with Flex-based AIR applications. Until now... Mar. 31, 2009 03:13 PM EDT Reads: 223 |
My quick stopover in Los Angeles was packed with good discussions. Last night I had dinner with Dojo Co-founder David Schontzler and this morning I had breakfast with Dojo Committer Gavin Doughtie.
I’m now on my way to Seoul via Asiana Air:
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Today also marks the o... Mar. 31, 2009 11:47 AM EDT |
Not to be outdone by MySpace announcing a deeper partnership with Microsoft yesterday, bringing Silverlight technology to its development platform and mobile application, Facebook and Adobe are today announcing a partnership and the release of fresh Flash client libraries to make it ea... Mar. 31, 2009 04:37 AM EDT Reads: 182 |
Tour de Flex is a very useful learning AIR (and now web) application that I often use during my presentation and Flex/AIR training courses to show Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, and a variety of third-party components, ... Mar. 30, 2009 05:39 PM EDT Reads: 141 |
Tour de Flex is a very useful learning AIR (and now web) application that I often use during my presentation and Flex/AIR training courses to show Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, and a variety of third-party components, ... Mar. 30, 2009 05:39 PM EDT |
Two Microsoft-related announcements coming from social networking giant MySpace today: the portal is adding support for Windows Mobile-run phones to its new mobile application, due this summer, and bringing the Silverlight runtime to its developer program thanks to a jointly developed ... Mar. 30, 2009 12:04 PM EDT Reads: 171 |
SeeqPod has decided to sell its source code to developers to spawn more clones, one of the media search startups that built upon its API is apparently calling it quits: Streamzy, which we profiled in July 2008, is selling itself on eBay at a starting bid of $1,000, provided it's not a ... Mar. 30, 2009 05:29 AM EDT |
Today was the best day of skiing in Park City. The sky was clear. It wasn't too warm, and it wasn't brutally cold. When you stopped, breathing hard, the air had a refreshing crispness to it. There was packed powder everywhere. No lift lines. The scenery gorgeous and I was skiing beauti... Mar. 27, 2009 10:25 PM EDT |
As Adobe Flex Certified Instructor (ACI) I had to update my certification to the new Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Exam in order to confirm my Flex ACI.
So this morning I got and passed the Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Exam in a Vue center.
The exam has changed a bit against the previous Flex 2 vers... Mar. 27, 2009 11:03 AM EDT Reads: 309 |
Henry Ford’s Contribution to Global Warming
California to reduce carbon emissions by banning black cars? — It’s harder to make black cars ever look clean too. My superstitious mother used to think black cars were evil, apparently the Air Resources Board agrees!
In... Mar. 26, 2009 08:52 PM EDT |
SAX is a very low-level programming interface for XML
parsing. DOM is slightly more programmer-friendly but not much. I would suggest
you do your processing in a higher-level declarative language such as XSLT or
XQuery.
Even then, I would tend to ask questions about what ... Mar. 26, 2009 08:28 PM EDT Reads: 429 |
The California legislature is considering regulating the color of cars and reflectivity of paint to reduce the energy requirements to cool them. A presentation on the proposed legislation by the California Air Resources Board is below.
The problem isn't the color per se, but the ref... Mar. 26, 2009 06:21 PM EDT |
There are many beautiful applications built with Adobe AIR including the ones that are functional for the designer & developer community.
Here are 16 fresh Adobe AIR applications for designers & developers: Mar. 26, 2009 12:34 PM EDT |
Hi,I'm new to XML and need some help on parsing large XSD files which include namespaces and references to other XSD files.Which parser is best for this purpose, SAX or DOM?I started with SAX parser but I'm facing some difficulties with it. When I try to parse this:
<xsd:e... Mar. 26, 2009 05:56 AM EDT |
This is another excerpt from my chapter of the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook published on InsideRIA: Consuming Twitter APIs.
Twitter provides its own set of APIs to consume its web services and create mashups that use its services.
This solution will use the simplest approach to consume Twit... Mar. 25, 2009 10:57 AM EDT Reads: 135 |
This is another excerpt from my chapter of the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook published on InsideRIA: Consuming Twitter APIs.
Twitter provides its own set of APIs to consume its web services and create mashups that use its services.
This solution will use the simplest approach to consume Twit... Mar. 25, 2009 10:57 AM EDT |
Speaking on integrating Java and RIA at the Princeton Java Users Group tomorrow (March 25, 2009). The session talks about the pull and push based models for communication between a Java server and a rich web application. The remoting and messaging infrastructure within BlazeDS and both... Mar. 24, 2009 03:29 PM EDT Reads: 177 |
MySpace Music, the joint venture between MySpace and the major labels to provide free streaming music to users, is announcing its executive team this afternoon. The president of the company, Courtney Holt, was announced late last year. Today the company showing off the rest of the team... Mar. 24, 2009 02:26 PM EDT Reads: 195 |
It's hard to find a good stuff reader. Twhirl and Tweetdeck are good for Twitter and every other social networking whatever service has its own Air app, but there's no one place you can put all your stuff in a readable and usable way. Enter Skimmer, a stuff reader by Fallon, an ad age... Mar. 24, 2009 11:14 AM EDT |
This is one of the Flex Builder 4 feature that I find very useful for day by day Flex 4 development: the Flex Package Explorer.
It is a time-saving panel introduced in Flex Builder 4 which replaces the classic Flex Navigator.
The Flex Package Explorer gives you a complete view of pro... Mar. 24, 2009 06:55 AM EDT Reads: 179 |
This is one of the Flex Builder 4 feature that I find very useful for day by day Flex 4 development: the Flex Package Explorer.
It is a time-saving panel introduced in Flex Builder 4 which replaces the classic Flex Navigator.
The Flex Package Explorer gives you a complete view of pro... Mar. 24, 2009 06:55 AM EDT |
We've updated the DAO-Ext AIR tool for generating DAO and ActionScript Value Objects. We've just fixed some small bugs and added the auto-update. We're working on some documentation too.
If you want to join the project and contribute this is the right time ;) Feel free to contact us.
... Mar. 24, 2009 04:58 AM EDT Reads: 196 |
We've updated the DAO-Ext AIR tool for generating DAO and ActionScript Value Objects. We've just fixed some small bugs and added the auto-update. We're working on some documentation too.
If you want to join the project and contribute this is the right time ;) Feel free to contact us.
... Mar. 24, 2009 04:58 AM EDT Reads: 108 |
This tutorial will help you get started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta. It will take you through setting up an account, performing the authentication, and then creating a session with some of the built-in pods. At the end, you can make the application accessible to guests ... Mar. 23, 2009 05:37 PM EDT |
Prospective Homebuyers Enthusiastic About Beazer Homes Smartdesign® Eco Promotion 30,000 Consumers Participate in Eco-Themed Sweepstakes Leading to 500 Mar. 23, 2009 01:38 PM EDT |
A couple of months ago Comtaste has entered in the livecycle development world supporting some clients to extend their RIAs scaling from paper forms to online interactive forms.
One of the first question that clients use to ask us is how to generate PDF using Livecycle ES.
So I'm writi... Mar. 23, 2009 09:42 AM EDT Reads: 122 |
A couple of months ago Comtaste has entered in the livecycle development world supporting some clients to extend their RIAs scaling from paper forms to online interactive forms.
One of the first question that clients use to ask us is how to generate PDF using Livecycle ES.
So I'm writi... Mar. 23, 2009 09:42 AM EDT |
Adobe AIR is a extraordinary platform and the core idea behind AIR i.e enabling web developers to build desktop apps has been revolutionary. But, there are things about AIR that are very limiting as a developer … Mar. 23, 2009 09:16 AM EDT |
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