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Flex and AJAX Quality Assurance automated testing with Borland Silk 2008

Testing Flex and AJAX applications is challenging because the nature of the application itself can communicate between the client and the server in a different ways. We're not anymore in a context where the standard web application submits via GET or

Posted: May. 8, 2008 05:26 AM

Waiting for the Nokia N96 I'm enjoying my N95 8GB with Flash Lite 3

I'm a Nokia N95 8GB (with Flash Lite 3 installed) owner since November 2007 and I'm totally satisfied. When the Nokia N95 8GB software version 15.0.015 was released, the Flash Lite 3 support was added (other improvements include WLAN and browser st

Posted: May. 6, 2008 09:23 AM

Hydra changed its name: Pixel Bender

Just to let you know that Hydra, the bitmap effect scripting language, will be renamed to Pixel Bender. Reading the Kevin Goldsmith blog this is the reason : The problem is that it's a great name for any kind of technology that does multiple things

Posted: May. 6, 2008 03:40 AM

NetBeans 6.1 adds new features for developing AJAX Web 2.0 apps (JavaScript and PHP support)

During NetBeans Day at JavaOne it has been announced that NetBeans 6.1 IDE will be more oriented to AJAX and Web 2.0 application development. In fact the new NetBeans will add the support for PHP scripting language, support for embedded CSS, HTML an

Posted: May. 6, 2008 03:09 AM

I'll speak at Multi-Mania conference.Registrations are now open

Multi-Mania is totally free event dedicated to multimedia topics that happen in Belgium. The speaker list has been published on the site and it keeps getting great.

Posted: May. 5, 2008 10:27 AM

Calculating the ROI for enterprise applications that use Flex 3

Raffaele, my business partner, has published the slides of his presentation at 360Flex. The topic was very interesting because he showed the benefits achieved as a consequence of adopting Flex to re-design an enterprise application. The benefit was

Posted: May. 2, 2008 07:14 AM

Garbage Collector in ActionScript 3

The garbage collector of actionscript 3 works in 2 different ways to know which object should be deleted from memory: the reference counting method and the mark&sweep. Emanuele, one of our senior developer at Comtaste, wrote an interesting article

Posted: Apr. 29, 2008 05:52 AM

Considering the byte order mark (UTF-BOM) when reading a text file using the readUTF() method in AIR

Working with Adobe AIR's d ead and write methods, we encountered some strange behaviors when using the readUTF() method to read text files (TXT or RTF). In fact if the text file we're opening has not been created by Adobe AIR, we got a runtime erro

Posted: Apr. 28, 2008 12:52 PM

AJAX (Adobe Spry) and AIR development using Aptana IDE

These days I'm working a lot with Aptana IDE. Aptana is an IDE based on Eclipse and the Studio version is free to use. I'm using the enviroment to develop AJAX code for exporting in Adobe AIR. I have to say that I'm really impressed by it.

Posted: Apr. 24, 2008 06:00 AM

Reduce the size of a Flex 3 application avoiding unnecessary references with the getQualifiedClassName() method

There are many ways you can use to control and optimize the performance of your Flex applications acting both on the server as well as on the client side. The first optimization you can implement is by reducing the time tha application takes to star

Posted: Apr. 23, 2008 12:54 PM

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	Building an IM Bot Using ColdFusion By Ben Forta Randy Smith wrote: Got it working - remember to remove the pound sign from in front of each of the options! I assumed that if they said there was a "default" version that you didn't need to specify the parameters. Wrong!
	Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla By Maureen O'Gara Howard Fore wrote: @Joe: Yeah and she's the editor!!!!
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	Dreamweaver Tutorial: How To Build CSS Based Pop-up Menus... By Joyce Evans Theo wrote: I've tried your instructions but the final result is the pop up menu overlaps itself and appears way below the button it is supposed to be connected to. I've adjusted positions in Fireworks and followed your instructions for dreamweaver, but it does not change. Th...
	Car Manufacturers Go with Adobe Flex RIA By Yakov Fain gerrymclarnon wrote: I'll have to take your word for the slow connection, my experience of the site is that it is slick and fast. BTW how many people buy a car on impulse via a website?