Adobe senior product manager Craig Barberick told SYS-CON's Web Developer's & Designer's Journal that 'this is really an extension of the Flash Video ecosystem. Up to this point, we did not have a tool that allows Flash Video players to play on their desktops or offline. (With the Adob

Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a leader in Web content management for marketing, announces a new white paper from The Gilbane Group that explains how marketers benefit from utilizing a Web CMS-driven eMarketing platform to deliver tangible ROI on marketing investments.

Several months ago I posted some articles on my blog about Flex 2 components and accessing/modifying their BitmapData. In one example, I sent the BitmapData to the server and saved it as a JPG file, and I've been asked numerous times since... 'How did you do that?' It's surprisingly ea

JavaOne starts next week, and most of the Java developers will be watching closely what's new and exciting will be announced in the tried, true and aging Java. But my today's column is about books that will be sold at JavaOne. Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex & Java. We spent

Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), an Internet solutions provider of choice for the world?s elite businesses, today announced ExpertVillage.com, an online resource offering more than 15,000 free, on-demand instructional videos, has adopted Internap?s VitalStream cont

CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Web hosting company, has announced their Spring Server Spectacular. The Spring Server Spectacular is an opportunity for the company to offer top-of-the-line dedicated servers at a discounted cost to encourage customers to expand their services. The Spring Serve

Adobe has announced that a large portion of the next version of Flex goes open source under Mozilla Public License (MPL). Here's the partial list of what becomes open: mxml, compc, and ActionScript compiler, command line debugger FDB, Flex framework and RPC libraries and testing infras

Most Flex developers have seen and used the [Bindable] tag but not many know what this tag does or even what it is. [Bindable] is what is known as a metadata tag. Metadata tags are special tags that are inserted in your source code that give the compiler information on how to compile t

Development and Design are two sides of the same coin in the digital age, and it is very nice to consider in any case how well these two formerly separate worlds have come together over the past two decades. Adobe was at the forefront from the beginning, with its Postscript Fonts. Base

Now there is simply no excuse for accidentally buying a DVD I already own. I will soon be entering my entire collection of DVDs into this new Flex 2 DVD library. From now on, I plan to check this library before heading out to the video store. For the final online version of this Web ap

Small business owners and Web designers alike will benefit from eCart's complete integration into the Adobe platform through Dreamweaver and over-arching ease-of-use. Unlike hosted eCommerce solutions, eCart is easily incorporated into existing site designs for an unmatched personalize

Who's better looking? Flash Player or Sliverlight? As of today, 98% of the world computer users know what Flash Player is and only 2% or so know what's Silverlight. But this will change pretty soon. Both Flash Player and Silverlight can read any plain HTTP feed. Flex also offers faster

On2 Technologies, Inc., , the leading provider of video compression software and solutions, and Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, announced today a licensing agreement for On2 VP6 compression schemes for Live and On Demand encoding, used

Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) today announced its CaptionSync automated captioning system now delivers XML caption output for the Adobe Flash CS3 captioning component. This will allow organizations to bring their Flash video into accessibility compliance faster, more affordably, an

Already, even in pre-release, Adobe's Spry seemed to catch the imagination of many Web professionals wrestling with how to integrate new AJAX frameworks into existing workflows. Created with designers in mind, Spry uses regular HTML tags, CSS, and JavaScript, and is easy to use - boili

Total Training(TM), Inc., a pioneer in engaging and innovative video-based training, today announced five new DVD-ROM based training series: Total Training for Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) CS3 Extended: Essentials, Total Training for Adobe Illustrator(R) CS3: Essentials, Total Training for Ad

Strata, the company adding the power of 3D to the designer's toolset, announced today three new plug-ins for Adobe(R) Systems' Photoshop(R) CS3 Extended software. Each of these 3D[in] plug-ins will be priced at less than $149 and will ship spring of this year.

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at our publisher's offices (SYS-CON Media) and they showed me our Flex book with the correct cover, but all pages were blank. Yesterday, I've got an email from them with the words, 'Yakov your book is ready, stop by and pick it up'. The guys from prod

e frontier, (http://www.e -frontier.com/), a leader in graphics and animation software, today announced that they will offer for download, a free exporter for Poser 7 that will allow Poser 3D content to be imported into the 3D layer of the new Photoshop CS3 Extended software.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced that the first public alpha version of Apollo is now available for developers on Adobe Labs. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system application runtime that allows web developers to leverage their existing skills i

Paravue(R) Inc., today announced Turbo Mask(TM), an image masking tool designed for graphic and web designers, photographers, and motion graphic artists that work with Adobe Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS Extended. Most image masking tools rely on skill to get the desired results. Turbo

Are your colors cool? Do you wish they were cooler? Adobe believes there is power in color. Their new web solution, Kuler, is a clear demonstration of this. In this article, you will find out how to use Kuler to create, share and rate color themes.

A noted Flex Evangelist from Adobe has published a list of top dozen of consulting firms that offer application development using Adobe Flex. Farata Systems is one of the firms that made this Flex honor roll. This company is run by experts who put lost of efforts into studying Flex Fra

Amyuni Technologies launches v3.0 of its PDF Converter, PDF Creator and PDF Suite products. All products are now Microsoft Vista compatible, with full support for both PDF and XPS and offere extremely accurate conversion of any type of document into PDF and XPS, the company says.

Farata Systems has announced a strategic partnership with Midnight Coders to offer Web reporting and data-bound components and services that can be used in Flex, Flash and Ajax-based rich Internet applications. 'This partnership is an important step in improving productivity and time-t

Since our last issue, several events have transpired that have significant impact for ColdFusion developers. I have been keeping my eye on several trends and have been evaluating whether or not they deserve focus in ColdFusion Developer's Journal. I've begun blogging about these trends

This article looks at an easy portal infrastructure that's based on a Flex-based portal container and portlets (individual Web applications) deployed as Flex modules. This portal framework provides full support for AJAX-type message processing with a very efficient deployment of portle

ColdFusion, BlueDragon, Coral Web Builder, IgniteFusion, and Railo. All are CFML engines, but none of them support the same implementation of CFML as each other. This, in the long run, is not a good thing. Up front, I am not opposed to other CFML engines. Yes, I use only ColdFusion in

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the Adobe Creative Suite 3 product line, an offering of tightly integrated design and development tools for every creative workflow. Adobe?s new Creative Suite 3 line-up unites the best of Adobe and Macromedia product innovation to provide desig

Farata Systems, a leading provider of Flex and Java services and components has announced availability of the Alpha version of the first community site www.myflex.org that will become a repository for commercial Flex components and Eclipse plugins developed by independent vendors.

'It takes a village,' said Cynergy VP Dave Wolf this morning at AJAXWorld 2007 East, 'to build an engineering team capable of writing world-class Rich Internet Applications.' You cannot create the right atmosphere in a 'cubicle farm,' he contends. And Cynergy walks the talk, and walks

Can a Flex programmatic skin draw text? The short answer is, yes! The longer answer is, it's a little tricky. Let me break it down. First of all, in Flash, the only way to draw text is with a TextField. Flex can't do anything about that, so any Flex class that wants to draw text has to

Bluestreak Technology, Inc., the developer of the award-winning MachBlue(TM) platform for mobile phones and digital television, announced today that MachBlue Mobile will be commercially available for J2ME-compatible mobile phones.

This article describes a basic method for indexing and searching images and digital photographs based on color using ColdFusion and CFImageHistogram (www .leavethatthingalone.com/ projects/cfhistogram/). This method indexes and searches color in images quickly using ColdFusion.

The key to successful build management in distributed environments is a foundational commitment to consistency, repeatability and portability. This is just as true for small, homogeneous development environments using in-house, scripted build systems, as it is for large, complex envir

Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a leader in Web content management for marketing, today announced that it has launched Version 5.5, which takes Web CMS to the next level by integrating Web site optimization and marketing automation features. The company also made signifi

While recently channel surfing, one of the 'Geico caveman' commercials came on the tube to remind me that Geico.com is so easy to use, even a caveman can do it. Plenty of ColdFusion developers are not what some people might call 'real programmers.' This is not necessarily a reflection

With the onslaught of excitement around AJAX and RIAs, incredible user interfaces that engage users in a passionate and sticky experience is paramount. Creating these experiences requires much more than just great developers or creative designers. It takes both sides working together i

According to Adobe's senior technical evangelist and AJAXWorld 2006 veteran Christophe Coenraets, we're seeing today the first steps of the industry's journey down a path towards 'high definition' user interfaces. 'Real time data, in-context collaboration, vector graphics-powered expre

Integration New Media, Inc. and Really Strategies Inc. announced a new joint white paper, entitled NIMAS: An Opportunity for Educational Publishers. This free white paper provides educational publishers with an overview of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NI