Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the public beta of Adobe® Digital Editions, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built from the ground up for digital publishing. With native support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) as well as an XHTML-based reflow-centric

ColdFusion developers have known for years how powerful rapid development can be and how much of a difference that makes when building dynamic Web applications. Over the course of a little more than a year we've watched as the Web model was turned on its head in favor of something that

'MAX 2006 is both a milestone in the integration of Adobe and Macromedia, and a reflection of what's possible when all these creative forces come together,' said Kevin Lynch, Adobe SVP & Chief Software Architect today here in Las Vegas, where Adobe is staging its first MAX developer an

'By creating a specialized, consumer-friendly application like Digital Editions, Adobe is ensuring publishers can securely deliver high-impact content to the widest possible audience, across hardware platforms, operating systems and devices,' said Shantanu Narayen, president and COO at

This article is based on a presentation that I made at the Adobe Flex seminar in August 2006 (www.flexseminar.com/), after which the master of ceremonies Jeremy Geelan asked me to explain how to make great mapping mashups using Adobe Flex.

Christophe Coenraets, a senior Flex Evangelist from Adobe has published a blog showing a number of sample Flex applications that communicate with Java on the server side.

When I joined Macromedia/Adobe Consulting, my role as Practice Leader was to grow a practice in EMEA around Rich Internet Application technologies. , reflecting the recurrence in opportunity for us to fuse these client and server technologies together to solve a number of enterprise bu

Oracle and Adobe today announced they are working together to enable developers to easily create Web 2.0 applications for the enterprise. For the first time, enterprise applications will be able to include animations, charts and graphs in Adobe(R) Flash(R) combined with other AJAX con

Your footsteps echo down the unmarked path. Gravel shuffles everywhere as you slow and strafe around the corner of a generic concrete bunker. You reach for the double- barreled shotgun but it's too late. A loud bang rips through the air but it's the soft thud as you hit the ground that

The winds of change in the Web world have reached hurricane force right now, and nowhere are they blowing more fiercely than around that epicenter of weather activity that's been labeled 'Web 2.0.' There, a perfect storm is brewing.

Ten years ago I've been doing PowerBuilder and my mentality was different: first, I was the best friend of business users, and second I did not really worry about what's under the hood. I could do stuff quickly, or using the modern jargon, I was an

SYS-CON Books (www.books.sys-con.com) announced the forthcoming publication of two uniquely comprehensiveand up-to-date books devoted to every aspect of AJAX technologies and RichInternet Applications in the greater context of the overall 'Web 2.0'spectrum:

There is this blog and a nice looking demo showing how AJAX can happily live together with Flex charting. This vendor's AJAX grid component is populated with the data first, and then using FABridge the data is being passed to the Flex Charting component. Typically blogs demos like th

The subject of this piece is how to pass parameters from HTML to a Flex 2 application using flashVars parameters.

Flash Player 9 enters pre-Alpha stage on Linux. Adobe marketing needs to work harder.

We are about to enter a new era, when plain looking Web applications will gradually be replaced with RIA delivered over the Web that can actually land on the PC and work in a disconnected mode as well. How this will affect the evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) applications?

The simplest way to explain Flex Data Services (FDS) is to compare them with Flex Remoting. Simply put, FDS addresses only a subset of operations facilitated via Flex Remoting - result set requests. However, whereas Flex Remoting enables one-way requests, FDS combines one-way requests

Specializing in 'Total Solutions Hosting' Apollo Hosting provides everything their customers need to build, sell and market their websites. Their web servers were processing over half a million unsolicited spam emails on a daily basis. Apollo's Vice President of Operations, Don McLeman

Flex 2 applications may have complex architectures and they are usually made up of multiple files: MXML, Actionscript and CSS.

You read the blogs, see a couple of articles, and hear all the buzz about Flex 2 and how it can really transform how your users can fluidly interact with information and the business in an exciting and efficient new way.

In Java, if you've created an object from a particular class, you can use only properties and methods that were defined in this class. This is not the case in ActionScript 3. This is one of the examples of unusual (from the OOP perspective) programming techniques.

Traditional application development processes make it challenging to meet the time and budget constraints facing businesses today. Going from the requirements gathering phase to writing up design documents to delivering applications can take many months-which is often too long for exec

All objects in recent versions of ActionScript are defined by something called classes. Think of classes as blueprints that determine the unique combination of characteristics, actions, and reactions that comprises a particular object of a certain type. By 'object,' we are talking abou

With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it's easy to ignore another-this time velvet-revolution. E-commerce 2.0 is coming into maturity and getting ready to relieve its now 10+ year old predecessor. It's about time.

We've all seen Google finance, and the great job that it does at mixing HTML content with Flash content, as seen on company stock quotes. Google has done a great job at using Flash where it makes the most sense, in the graphs for company quotes, with HTML where it makes sense (linking

RSS - Really Simple Syndication - is about sharing content with new audiences. Lots of websites create RSS feeds so that their audiences can get updates using their favorite Aggregators (like NetNewsWire). Other websites collect that content and republish it in new venues, to new audie

There comes a day when we all need an application in multiple languages. Eso es la verdad. In Flex, the solution to this problem is resource bundles. In this article, I'll describe the basic use of resource bundles and create a small example in Flex Builder. I'll also suggest some

I gotta say, I had a lot of fun at the Real-World Flex Seminar SYS-CON put together. Things went, for me, really smoothly. Registration, getting Internet at the booth, and hooking up with my team. Free coffee was readily available, so I was set.

While currently used by four million people, Dreamweaver has no e-commerce functionality. Which is why WebAssist today is launching a new e-commerce solution that will add value to Dreamweaver for small businesses and web professionals.

On August 14, I attended the seminar RealWorld Flex in New York City. I was really impressed by the endless number of presentations showing the use of Adobe Flex 2 technology in the real world applications. Real-time processing, vector graphics, collaboration, messaging, multimedia,

Each of our students comes with different understanding of how to program in Flex according to their 'legacy' background. So I'll tell you the story that might have happened in a real life, but first, let me remind you of an old Indian tale about seven blind men and an elephant. In sho

InterAKT Online announced the release of MX AJAX Toolbox. This Dreamweaver extension empowers web developers and designers to build AJAX sites. You can now integrate AJAX controls and widgets into your existing projects or build complete AJAX sites from scratch.

While a large Flex application is loaded, the user may experience unpleasant delays, which can be used productively to logon to this application. Besides, it'll give the user perception that your application loads faster.

We are finishing writing our book on RIA with Flex and Java , and the last chapter is called 'Integration with External Applications'. It's sixty five pages of some advanced read. After writing this chapter one of us suggested that it would be easier to re-write Excel from scratch. It

'We decided it was the right time to deliver Dreamweaver with Creative Suite 2.3, so customers can make the transition to the industry's leading Web design and development tool,' said Mark Hilton, Adobe's vice president of product management, as Adobe announced today that Acrobat 8 Pro

This sample application shows the data exchange between Adobe Flex and Microsoft Excel

As a Boston Red Sox fan in New York City, I'm no stranger to being outnumbered, or in the minority opinion. Following this theme, I'll be presenting about Adobe Flex 2.0 at the upcoming AJAXWorld conference October 2nd-4th in Santa Clara. It seems I'll be 1 of only a few speakers givi

Christophe Coenraets chairs and Mike Nimer, James Ward, Luis Polanco, Andrew Oliver, Mansour Raad, Boris Kabisher and Manish Jiandani will all be giving sessions when the one-day Flex Track kicks off next month at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006 in the Santa Clara Convention Center, S

Flash components are badly written; there are many undocumented bugs that you would never overcome, e.g., try adding a combobox to an accordion pane, or a menu inside of a scrollpane. The most awful truth about Flash components is that they are badly integrated with one another and put

The current storm of change in Web development and online business models, coming as it does together with a simultaneous revolution in the way that users are choosing to use the Web, is an opportunity for us all.