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• New tutorial on creating object pools in AS3

  leebrimelow.com

  Lee Brimelow

  15 May 2012 | 8:42 pm

  I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows you how to create and use object pools in AS3. In the example I am using Starling but the concepts carry over to any other framework or just the traditional display list. This concept is vital to get good performance for your games on mobile.

• GreenSock tweening comes to JavaScript

  leebrimelow.com

  Lee Brimelow

  15 May 2012 | 1:02 pm

  Great news for those who are looking to get into JS animation. GreenSock, the creator of excellent libraries like TweenLite and TweenMax, has just released their new animation platform and it includes support for both Flash and HTML5. By the looks of the API, it makes animating DOM elements and CSS properties a breeze and the performance looks amazing!

• Dojo Recognized at the Great Indian Developer Summit

  The Dojo Toolkit Blog

  Dylan Schiemann

  29 Apr 2012 | 11:08 pm

  The Dojo Toolkit was recently selected as the 2012 recipient of an award for excellence in web development technology at the Great Indian Developer Summit. We are honored to receive this award. The conference has over 14,000 attendees, India’s largest tech event. Anuj Dubey and Lakshmi Sharma accepted the award on behalf of the Dojo Foundation. The selection criteria for the award emphasized functionality, usability, innovation excellence, bleeding-edge features, and feedback from the developer ecosystem. The web development category specifically emphasized web development and…

• Watching a father fight cancer.

  RIAGENIC.com

  Scott Barnes

  13 May 2012 | 1:58 am

  Its 11:30 PM on a Thursday night, my father is to my right in bed scared about one thing, drowning. He’s not afraid of dying; he made peace with the concept of what happens next long ago. He’s more concerned about drowning in whatever is pooling inside his chest due to the cancer aggressively growing inside of him. The doctors have said plain and to the point, that what will eventually take my father from this earth will be via drowning on his own internal chest fluids (among other things). In order to defeat this, he has decided to cheat his fears and up the dosage of morphine and…

• Friending non-humans: A lazy foodie’s hack for the Android address book

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  arpit

  4 May 2012 | 5:34 pm

  Probably not one my best characteristics but I do tend to order in a lot of food from a variety of places near my apartment. There are also enough places around where I live that I end up trying a bunch of different places and then when a familiar menu comes up again I am often left wondering “what did I eat there the last time, and how good was it?”. I was half tempted to create a food journal app specifically for delivery food. Think of it as a Foodspotting / Foursquare app but more like a personal diary than a social app. Neat idea I guess, except I have almost no time these…

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  Ryan Stewart - Mountaineer Coding

• MAX Moving to Spring 2013

  ryanstewart

  14 May 2012 | 10:20 pm

  As Kevin posted this morning, MAX is going to be moving to Spring and the next MAX will take place on May 4-8th instead of in October. It’s a big change, but one that I’m excited about. Doing it in the spring will align more closely with releases and planning, which is ultimately going to make for a better event. We’ve also completely revamped how we think about content at MAX and as Kevin said, the content is going to focus around 4 major areas: Design and creativity Web sites, including the latest on HTML5, JavaScript and CSS Digital publishing, video, and gaming,…

• A Response to Benjamin Sandofsky’s Shell Apps

  ryanstewart

  8 May 2012 | 3:10 pm

  Dion Almaer retweeted an article by Benjamin Sandofsky that covers “shell apps”, or HTML/Hybrid apps in contrast to native apps. His thesis seems to be, from his post: If you plan to write an app for iOS or Android, you will save time and create a better product if you stick to Objective-C and Java, respectively. Which I agree with in principle, but I also found some of his arguments deeply flawed. He spends a lot of time talking about the cross-platform problem of trying to build a web-experience that looks native on iOS and native on Android. Specifically he calls out…

• Presenting PhoneGap at the AT&T Hackathon – Seattle, April 14th

  ryanstewart

  11 Apr 2012 | 1:05 am

  I’m going to be presenting/talking about PhoneGap at the AT&T Hackathon here in Seattle on Saturday, April 14th. The hackathon actually starts on Friday night, and the last one I was at was a really fun event. If you’re in the area I encourage you to come check it out, build an app, and win some prizes. I’ll be there in and out (not totally sure when I’m speaking) but I’m hoping to see some cool PhoneGap projects and chat with developers. Here are the details: F5 Networks HQ 401 Elliott Avenue West Seattle, WA 98119 Friday, April 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM –…

• The PhoneGap Starter Project

  ryanstewart

  9 Apr 2012 | 6:54 pm

  As I’ve been digging more and more into PhoneGap Build I’ve also been discovering that there are some gaps in the workflow and that it’s not always easy to go from a feature I want to use to a cross-platform implementation for it. Most of the time I’ll use the PhoneGap documentation as a starter point and then try to wrangle it into a local project and then make that local project work with PhoneGap Build. One of my favorite features of PhoneGap Build is that it can pull directly from a git/svn repository and build binaries from that repo. So last night I did a little…

• Web Versus Native – Asking the Wrong Questions

  ryanstewart

  2 Apr 2012 | 12:57 pm

  There’s been a lot of talk lately about web apps versus native. It’s not that the question has ever gone away, but just over the past couple of weeks it seems like it’s been called out a bit more in blog posts. There was a Pew Internet report that covered some of the pros/cons of going web or native. Darryl Taft, one of my favorite press guys, did a writeup earlier this month on the landscape of web versus native and some of the companies involved in blending those two worlds. And then today I saw news about Mojito, a hybrid client-server solution from Yahoo, which is part…

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  Christophe Coenraets

• Single-Page CRUD Application with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap

  Christophe

  3 May 2012 | 9:23 am

  A few weeks weeks ago, I posted a first Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap sample application. While interesting, “Employee Directory” is a read-only application. As such, it doesn’t show off the full power of Backbone’s models or the coolness of some of Bootstrap’s data entry features such as forms, validation, etc. To demonstrate these features, I decided to revisit my wine cellar application, which was in need of a serious UI makeover. You can run the application here. This online version uses an in-memory datastore: all your changes will be lost the next time you…

• Building Mobile Apps with HTML and a Local Database

  Christophe

  11 Apr 2012 | 11:03 am

  After my recent post, Crafting Native Looking iOS Apps with HTML, a number of you asked for an offline version that would use a Local Database (instead of the simple in-memory store) and provide a mechanism to automatically keep the local database in sync with a server database. I’ll save automatic data synchronization strategies for a future post, but here is the first step: an “offline” version of the application that uses the device’s or the browser’s local database as its data provider. This version still uses Backbone.js as its architectural framework.

• Appliness, a New Digital Magazine for Web Developers

  Christophe

  29 Mar 2012 | 9:42 am

  My multi-talented colleague Michael Chaize has been working hard on Appliness, a new Digital Magazine for Web developers. Appliness features interactive tutorials, video tutorials, news, application showcases, interviews, etc. Check out the video: Appliness is available on the iPad and Android tablets. If you have an iPad, you can get it from the “Newsstand”: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/appliness/id510636049 If you have an Android tablet, Appliness is available as a standalone application on Google Play:…

• Crafting Native Looking iOS Apps with HTML, Backbone.js, and PhoneGap

  Christophe

  28 Mar 2012 | 1:00 pm

  If you just want to try the application in your browser, click here. The data is based on Dwight’s original org chart :) I’ve been blogging a lot about Backbone.js recently. Backbone.js is a lightweight architectural framework that brings structure to your Web applications. Backbone is not, however, a user interface framework that helps you with the way your application looks. So, where do you turn to for help when you need to make your application look good? For traditional web apps (delivered through a browser), Twitter Bootstrap can help (read here). But what about Mobile apps?

• Employee Directory Sample App with Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile

  Christophe

  8 Mar 2012 | 9:50 am

  Here is a mobile version of my Backbone.js Employee Directory application using jQuery Mobile as the UI toolkit. As described in my previous post, jQuery Mobile was (at least initially) intended as a full-stack framework as opposed to a pure UI toolkit like Twitter Bootstrap. As such, it overlaps with the Backbone.js infrastructure in some areas. In particular, the URL routing feature provided by both frameworks may clash. The approach used here is to disable the routing and navigation capabilities of jQuery Mobile, and essentially use it as a pure UI framework on top of Backbone.js. This…

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  leebrimelow.com

• New tutorial on creating object pools in AS3

  Lee Brimelow

  15 May 2012 | 8:42 pm

  I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows you how to create and use object pools in AS3. In the example I am using Starling but the concepts carry over to any other framework or just the traditional display list. This concept is vital to get good performance for your games on mobile.

• GreenSock tweening comes to JavaScript

  Lee Brimelow

  15 May 2012 | 1:02 pm

  Great news for those who are looking to get into JS animation. GreenSock, the creator of excellent libraries like TweenLite and TweenMax, has just released their new animation platform and it includes support for both Flash and HTML5. By the looks of the API, it makes animating DOM elements and CSS properties a breeze and the performance looks amazing!

• Flash Player 11.3 fullscreen keyboard input

  Lee Brimelow

  10 Apr 2012 | 4:01 pm

  One of the greatest features in Flash Player 11.3 is the ability to accept full keyboard input while in fullscreen mode. This is really important for fullscreen games that need chat or other keyboard input. You can implement this feature very easily by using the FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE mode. See below for the ActionScript code: 1stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE; Much like regular fullscreen mode, you need to add a parameter to your HTML code. See the code below: 1<param name="allowFullScreenInteractive" value="true" /> When your…

• An unofficial premium feature FAQ

  Lee Brimelow

  29 Mar 2012 | 4:15 pm

  I thought it would be useful to address some of the questions and concerns that I have been hearing over the last couple of days surrounding premium features. So you’re charging people to make Flash games now? No not at all. It is only the combined use of the domain memory opcodes in conjunction with Stage3D GPU that is subjected to the license. Tools that produce console-quality 3D games like Unity use this technology combination, so in that case, you would need a license. Rovio on the other hand, wouldn’t have needed a license to deliver the awesome Stage3D version of Angry…

• Quick comments about Unity and premium features

  Lee Brimelow

  28 Mar 2012 | 1:44 pm

  I’m sitting at the Seattle airport at the moment but I just wanted to clarify a couple of things about the announcements we made last night. Firstly we announced that we now have a partnership in place with Unity. Our teams working together will make their Flash export feature even better in the future. Big shout out to Ralph and the Unity for their awesome work on it! The second thing we announced is a new premium feature model for the desktop browser runtime. This model is there to allow Adobe to make revenue from large, web-based Flash games like the ones that we expect to come out…

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  Alex’s Flex Closet

• Apache Flex Presentations at 360Flex 2012 in Denver

  Alex Harui

  1 May 2012 | 4:54 pm

  I had the honor of giving two presentations on Apache Flex at 360Flex in Denver. One was part of the keynote and focused on things everybody should know about Apache Flex, and the other was more focused on those planning to contribute to the code in the project. These files are actually pptx files but I had to give them .zip suffixes in order to post them. Keynote Presentation Apache Flex Session

• Spark Menu and MenuBar for Flex 4.5

  Alex Harui

  28 Oct 2011 | 2:08 pm

  A few folks pointed out that the Menu and MenuBar prototypes I put together based on Spark List are not working in Flex 4.5. I found enough time to try to get it working again. I also added support for a MenuBar item that doesn’t have a menu. Run Demo Download Source

• Catching UncaughtError in Flex Modules

  Alex Harui

  20 Apr 2011 | 1:09 am

  A common issue amongst those building Flex Applications that use Flex Modules is that the UncaughtError capability of Flash Player 10.1 does not work for Modules. This is due to the fact that Modules dereference the module SWF’s loaderInfo right away, in order to make unloading modules automatic. In other words, as soon as you dereference the last instance of classes in the module, the SWF can be garbage collected. If Flex did not dereference the loaderInfo, the developer would have to keep track of what instances of module classes have been created and whether they are still around, and…

• Migratory Foul: Performance Problems Migrating From Flex 3.x To Flex 4.x

  Alex Harui

  19 Apr 2011 | 5:42 pm

  Some folks migrating 3.x projects to 4.x have run into noticeable performance degradation, especially if they are using the default skins that ship with each SDK. This article attempts to explain why and propose alternative implementations. The main reason for the difference is that the the default skins/theme for 4.x is Spark and the default skins/theme for 3.x is Halo. Spark skins are simply not as fast as the Halo skins. The Halo skins are written as highly optimized ActionScript and are based on a lightweight Flex class called ProgrammaticSkin. And partly because of those optimizations,…

• Spark Checkbox DataGrid With Drag and Drop Support

  Alex Harui

  11 Mar 2011 | 6:50 pm

  The Spark DataGrid is almost ready to ship. We ran out of time to do some of the things MX DataGrid could do, including popular things like drag and drop of columns to change the order of the columns, and drag and drop of items to copy or move items to and from other DataGrids and Lists or within the same DataGrid. I found some time to show how to add that to the DataGrid. I was able to do it without subclassing, which indicates that we got the public APIs right, but if you want to have multiple DataGrids in your app, I would fold the drag/drop code into a subclass anyway. In the demo, there…

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  Recent AIR content

• Using the GameCenter Adobe AIR native extension for iOS

  15 May 2012 | 10:54 pm

  Add Game Center capabilities to your iOS game with the Milkman Games AIR native extension.

• Using the iAd Adobe AIR native extension for iOS

  15 May 2012 | 6:42 pm

  Add support for the iAd Network to your iOS app with the Milkman Games AIR native extension.

• Using the AdMob Adobe AIR native extension for Android

  14 May 2012 | 10:22 pm

  Integrate Google AdMob ads into your Android app with the Milkman Games AIR native extension.

• Retina display using Adobe AIR for the new iPad

  8 May 2012 | 9:59 am

  Learn how to use Retina display on the new iPad.

• Easy Library: An Adobe AIR library management system

  19 Mar 2012 | 2:00 am

  Learn about a basic management system for loaning books built with Adobe AIR.

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  ScottGu's Blog

• Great Free Course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps With EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery

  ScottGu

  20 Apr 2012 | 12:55 am

  Pluralsight has developed a great training course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery.  It is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin, and is really comprehensive.  Details of the course outline can be found here. Free 1-Month Subscription to the Course Pluralsight is offering a special promotion that allows you to get a free 1-month subscription to watch the above course as many time as you want at no cost.  There is no obligation to buy anything at the end of the offer and you don’t need to supply a credit card in order to take part in it.

• Announcing Windows Azure Media Services

  ScottGu

  16 Apr 2012 | 9:26 am

  I'm excited to share news about a great new cloud capability we are announcing today - Windows Azure Media Services. Windows Azure Media Services Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver media solutions to customers. It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. It also integrates and exposes services provided by industry leading partners – enabling an incredibly deep media stack of…

• April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio

  ScottGu

  14 Apr 2012 | 9:19 pm

  Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series: ASP.NET Easily overlooked features in VS 11 Express for Web: Good post by Scott Hanselman that highlights a bunch of easily overlooked improvements that are coming to VS 11 (and specifically the free express editions) for web development: unit testing, browser chooser/launcher, IIS Express, CSS Color Picker, Image Preview in Solution Explorer and more. Get Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms: Good 5-part tutorial that walks-through building an application using ASP.NET Web Forms and highlights some of the nice improvements coming with ASP.NET…

• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (April 16th)

  ScottGu

  14 Apr 2012 | 2:45 pm

  April 16th Update: You can listen to an audio version of the talk I did online here  This coming Monday (April 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session.  The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting.  We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics.  Any topic or question is fair game. You can learn more and register to attend the online…

• ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

  ScottGu

  27 Mar 2012 | 7:02 pm

  Microsoft has made the source code of ASP.NET MVC available under an open source license since the first V1 release. We’ve also integrated a number of great open source technologies into the product, and now ship jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Validation, Modernizr.js, NuGet, Knockout.js and JSON.NET as part of it. I’m very excited to announce today that we will also release the source code for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (aka Razor) under an open source license (Apache 2.0), and that we will increase the development transparency of all three projects by hosting their…

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  Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

• Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI

  Tim Heuer

  26 Apr 2012 | 1:47 pm

  Being more involved in the engineering process of a product I had the chance to participate in the design of various features instead of just the ones that I’m responsible for delivering.  One of those areas was the way we would enable developers to produce localized applications.  Before this process I have to be honest and as an app developer never really paid much attention to providing localized versions of any app that I wrote.  I had absolutely no good reason for coming to that decision, just never bothered.  In helping to design and understand localization a bit more I can say…

• Metro app development hidden gem: anonymous type binding

  Tim Heuer

  10 Apr 2012 | 10:38 am

  Just a little post to point out a hidden gem if you are a .NET developer creating a Metro style app: you can bind to anonymous types.  This came up in a discussion with a customer today that I was having and, frankly, I never tried it until then because my mind was back in Silverlight where this isn’t possible.  There may not be a tone of cases where this is valuable for you, but knowing it is there may help. Let’s assume I have a basic class Person: 1: public class Person 2: { 3: public int Age { get; set; } 4: public string FirstName { get; set; } 5: public string Gender { get; set; }…

• Stung by Azure Data Transfer fees

  Tim Heuer

  10 Apr 2012 | 12:46 am

  I should have known better honestly.  I’ve had one strike with cloud billing catching me by surprise and I’m not sure why I’m shocked it happened again.  This time, however, I thought I really did plan it out, pay attention to things and asked what I thought were the right questions.  Unfortunately I didn’t get the full answers.  This time I was stung by my shiny new SQL Azure service choice. UPDATE 12-APR-2012: Based on comments I've received I feel the need to clarify that I'm not bashing Azure or cloud services in general here.  I don't think anywhere I indicated Azure was a…

• Redesigning my blog for adaptive layout

  Tim Heuer

  2 Apr 2012 | 1:08 am

  My blog runs on Subtext which has a pretty good skinning model (albeit a tad outdated) and allows you to customize whatever you want.  I’ve had my own custom theme since 2009.  I figured I was due for an update.  I was further strengthened by a post from Jon Galloway last week. There wasn't a vote, but if there was: I don't like narrow, fixed width web designs. Use media queries, scale intelligently on widescreen. — Jon Galloway (@jongalloway) March 30, 2012 Now when I saw this I figured it was another nudge.  I did also have some time this weekend without any distractions so I took…

• Using a ToggleButton in your XAML Metro style AppBar

  Tim Heuer

  19 Mar 2012 | 11:08 pm

  If you’ve been playing around with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview then hopefully you’ve seen the hundreds of samples provided and downloaded some apps form the store.  In a lot of those applications you’ll notice the common theme of the use of an AppBar…the command bar that shows when you swipe from the top or bottom of the screen.  You can also invoke the AppBar by right-clicking or using the Windows 8 keyboard shortcut of Windows key + ‘z’ to bring it up as well. Picture of the AppBar in the Bing Maps application Most of the applications use the standard AppBar button concepts…

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  Confessions of an Flash Addict

• Day Against DRM! 50% discount!

  Sidney de Koning

  4 May 2012 | 2:00 am

  Today, the 4th of may is a day against DRM. Having the ability to download files at your convenience, store them on all your devices, or share them with a friend or colleague as you would a print book, is liberating, and this is how it should be. If you haven’t tried a DRM-free ebook of video, I encourage you to do so now. And if you’re already a fan, take advantage of this sale and add something new to your library. For one day only, you can save 50% on my ‘Automating Actionscript Projects‘ book. Use this code: DRMFREE. All e-books from oreilly.com are  DRM-free. You…

• Starling: wrong wmode value

  Sidney de Koning

  26 Apr 2012 | 5:13 am

  Lately i’ve been doing a lot with AIR 3.2 (for the desktop, not for mobile) and Starling (a killer combo!) and ran into the follwoing error: Whenever I was compiling I would get an error within the SWF, an overlay black rectangle with text saying “This application is not correctly embedded (wrong wmode value)“. This error has to do with the application descriptor file and the renderMode property within the initialWindow node. Normally when doing AIR on the desktop you can omit this value since it is only used for mobile. However when working with Starling you must change…

• Overlaying Flex 4.6 with AIR 3.2 and Flash Payer 11.2, the easy way.

  Sidney de Koning

  24 Apr 2012 | 4:38 am

  I always forget how to do this, so here it is also for you. I’ve found this in the Adobe SDK description. Always make sure you create a backup of your SDK before installing a new one. To stay organized with different SDK’s I have a folder in the root of my machine called “SDK”. Here I place all my SDK’s. Download and extract the Flex 4.6 SDK. Rename this folder to a descriptive name like “flex_sdk_4.6_AIR_3.2_Stage3D”. Download the AIR 3.2 SDK. Copy this file to the “flex_sdk_4.6_AIR_3.2_Stage3D” folder. Download the…

• Breaking news!

  Sidney de Koning

  16 Mar 2012 | 10:51 am

  Lately i haven’t been posting so much here, that ‘s because I have quit my job and started my own company. I will focus more solely on mobile development My plan is to still use this blog to post articles but in a little different way. I will focus these posts more on mobile, startup and programming methods. In the mean time I also wrote some articles for the FITC in Amsterdam. So here are some article for you to enjoy: AUG NL x FITC Amsterdam Sneak Peek Event Creating games with Starling with Lee brimelow and Tom Krcha at FITC Amsterdam Surviving 2012 with Micha Rozema at FITC…

• Installing on Device error using ‘adt -installApp’

  Sidney de Koning

  14 Jan 2012 | 9:47 am

  Today I was updating the Ant files for compiling for AIR for Android and iOS in Eclipse to make sure they can use the latest AIR SDK, 3.1. As I was doing this I ran into the following error while using the -installApp from adt: INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR The fix is to mount your device and remove the /.android_secure/smdl2tmp1.asec file. Unmount and remount your device,  run the ‘installApp’ command again. Now you can install again directly to your device Please consider to buying me a coffee.

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  James Ward

• Graphs in the Cloud: Spring + Neo4j on Heroku

  James Ward

  14 May 2012 | 4:19 pm

  Last week I hosted a webinar about running Java apps on Heroku that use the Spring Framework and the Neo4j graph database. Here is the recording of that webinar: In the webinar I began by deploying a copy of the Spring MVC + Hibernate template app from heroku.com/java on Heroku. Then I made a few modifications to the app to switch the persistence from Hibernate / JPA to Neo4j. You can get the full source code on GitHub. Here is a quick recap of what I did to switch the template app to use Neo4j: Added the Neo4j Heroku Add-on: heroku addons:add neo4j Added the Spring Data Neo4j dependencies…

• Play 2 Java Tutorial

  James Ward

  8 May 2012 | 8:57 am

  I’ve created a Play 2 Tutorial and posted it on GitHub! The tutorial covers how to: Create a Play App Set up an IDE Start the Play Server Routes Test a Route Update a Controller Test a Controller Update a View Test a View Deploy your app on the Cloud with Heroku Create a Model Create UI for Adding Tasks Get Tasks as JSON Display the Tasks via CoffeeScript and jQuery Make the App Pretty with Twitter Bootstrap Add Form Validation Update the App on Heroku Each section has a corresponding branch in git so you can diff against my version to see if you’ve done everything correctly.

• Heroku, Java, Play and Neo4j Presos: Denver JUG, Atlanta JUG, London Flash UG & Webinar

  James Ward

  7 May 2012 | 4:16 pm

  Over the next couple weeks I’ll be doing two Java User Group presentations, a Flash Platform User Group presentation and one Webinar. Hope to see you at one of these events: Wednesday May 9 – Denver Java User Group: Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps in the Cloud Thursday May 10 – Webinar hosted by Neo4j: Graphs in the Cloud: Neo4j and Heroku Tuesday May 15 – Atlanta Java User Group: Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud Thursday May 24 – London Flash Platform User Group: HTML5 Apps in Java & Scala with the Play Framework Deploying Apps on the…

• Heroku Presos: Denver Open Source UG and Future Insights Live

  James Ward

  30 Apr 2012 | 6:48 pm

  This week I’ll be doing two presentation about Heroku: Tuesday May 1 – 5:30 PM at the Denver Open Source Users Group:Heroku Cloud Computing Platform Thursday May 3 – 12:25pm at Future Insights Live (Las Vegas):Client/Server Apps with HTML5 and Java Hope to see you there!

• WebJars in Spring MVC

  James Ward

  30 Apr 2012 | 10:54 am

  Last week I announced the WebJars project that allows you to specify your web libraries (JavaScript, CSS, etc) as dependencies in your Java web applications. With some help from Jeremy Grelle I was able to get a simple WebJars Spring MVC example working. First you will need to add the WebJars repository to your build. For Maven, just add the following to your “pom.xml” build file: <repositories> <repository> <id>webjars</id> <url>http://webjars.github.com/m2</url> </repository> </repositories> Then add a WebJar dependency, like…

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  The Dojo Toolkit Blog

• Dojo Recognized at the Great Indian Developer Summit

  Dylan Schiemann

  29 Apr 2012 | 11:08 pm

  The Dojo Toolkit was recently selected as the 2012 recipient of an award for excellence in web development technology at the Great Indian Developer Summit. We are honored to receive this award. The conference has over 14,000 attendees, India’s largest tech event. Anuj Dubey and Lakshmi Sharma accepted the award on behalf of the Dojo Foundation. The selection criteria for the award emphasized functionality, usability, innovation excellence, bleeding-edge features, and feedback from the developer ecosystem. The web development category specifically emphasized web development and…

• dgrid beta announced!

  Dylan Schiemann

  23 Apr 2012 | 11:36 am

  SitePen has announced a new dgrid beta release! The announcement also shows off the new dgrid landing site, which we hope will be the model for how new Dojo Foundation packages will be created and marketed, complete with docs, demos, and tutorials.

• Dojo 1.7.2 released

  Colin Snover

  16 Feb 2012 | 3:23 pm

  Dojo 1.7.2 is now available for download. It will be available on CDNs shortly. The list of issues fixed in Dojo 1.7.2 is also available. Notable in this release are fixes for the loader & build system, official support for Firefox 10 ESR, and support for creating builds using Node 0.6. Share and enjoy!

• Dojo 1.7.2 status

  Colin Snover

  15 Feb 2012 | 8:33 pm

  Hi everyone, Just a quick status update on 1.7.2. There were a couple of last minute build issues that were discovered in the RC which means that the release has been pushed back slightly. We’re hoping to have it out by Friday at the absolute latest; it may be out earlier than that depending upon how quickly the remaining issues can be ironed out.

• Dojo 1.7.2rc1 released

  Colin Snover

  10 Feb 2012 | 6:11 pm

  Hello world, I’m happy to announce the first release candidate for Dojo 1.7.2. This is a stability and bugfix release, and is the first to include official support for the newly released Firefox 10 ESR. Download: http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.7.2rc1/ List of fixes: http://bugs.dojotoolkit.org/query?group=status&milestone=1.7.2 Final release of 1.7.2 is planned for next Wednesday, so test and report any issues promptly! Thanks!

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  Sencha Blog

• Deft JS: Loosely Coupled MVC through Dependency Injection

  14 May 2012 | 8:50 am

  That application you just deployed? As experienced software developers, we all know it won’t be long before you’re going to need make to significant UI changes. Regardless of the amount of painstaking forethought, consensus gathering and planning backing it, no software design ever survives first contact with its users unscathed. To deliver truly effective software, we have to be prepared to adapt to an evolving understating of our users’ needs. So… how do we architect our software, so we can rapidly implement UI changes without breaking the underlying business logic? Model View…

• Sencha Customer Spotlight: Burrows/Ford

  9 May 2012 | 12:20 pm

  Burrows is a full service communications agency which helps its clients give their customers key information and creative content to inform their purchase decisions. Our latest application is known as ‘Ford Showroom’ and is a portal for all things Ford. The main goals for this app were to help dealers sell cars, while immersing customers in the Ford brand. Our new application has two versions, a consumer experience and a dealer experience. One of the features that makes the dealer experience unique is the ability to send parts of the application to large screen televisions placed around…

• Behind the Sencha Command Utility and the Build Process

  2 May 2012 | 12:00 pm

  The Sencha command utility is a cross-platform command line tool that helps make it easier than ever to develop applications with Sencha Touch 2. The tool consists of many useful automated tasks around the full lifecycle of your applications, from generating a fresh new project to deploying an app for production. This article will help you understand the Sencha command utility as it’s used for your Sencha Touch 2 application’s build process. This article is written with the assumption that you are already familiar with Sencha Touch 2 SDK, SDK Tools and basic operations using the…

• Announcing Sencha GXT 3.0

  27 Apr 2012 | 4:50 pm

  We're excited to announce the general availability of Sencha GXT 3.0! Sencha GXT, previously known as Ext GWT, is our popular Java based web application framework that leverages the Google Web Toolkit compiler. With Sencha GXT 3.0, developers can build high performance web applications with cross-browser compatibility across all desktop browsers. Download Sencha GXT Easier to Learn This major release has given the GXT team a chance to take a step back and reconsider existing features and API design. We’ve made a number of breaking changes from Ext GWT to better support current GWT features…

• HTML5 Scorecard: RIM BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0

  26 Apr 2012 | 12:00 pm

  Last month, RIM released OS 2.0 for the BlackBerry PlayBook. We were already very impressed with the PlayBook 1.0 browser, and we were anticipating more, new and better. We put it through our HTML5 test wringer, and were pleased to find that the PlayBook 2.0 browser is an excellent upgrade, adding new features and upgraded performance in several areas. Notably, it features the first HTML5 color picker input type that we’ve seen on mobile, advanced SVG filters as well as a perfect Acid 3 score. The original Blackberry PlayBook browser, released this time last year, was already a very…

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  Official jQuery Blog

• Just Added: Training at SF jQuery Conference!

  Leah Silber

  3 May 2012 | 7:03 pm

  In response to the flood of requests and emails, and our original promise to work on this, we’ve got an announcement: we’ve added a single day Beginner/Intermediate training right before the San Francisco jQuery Conference :) Tickets are on sale now (left side, below the fold). The training will be provided by our friends at Bocoup, and hosted by the ever-generous folks at Microsoft. Here’s a snippet of what Trainers Ben Alman and Rebecca Murphey will be covering: At Bocoup’s intermediate one-day jQuery training, you’ll work with jQuery veterans to build a foundation…

• Getting Touchy About Patents

  sgonzalez

  10 Apr 2012 | 2:07 pm

  Touch events have become a hot topic for web developers as more and more companies move into the mobile space. Most of us know that touch events support single and multi-touch tracking. Some of us know the trickiness of working with touch and mouse at the same time. Fewer know that there are multiple touch event models, and even fewer have tried to support multiple models at the same time. I’d like to talk about where we are today, how we got here, and the potential problems we may face in the future. A Brief History Back in 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, and with it came touch events.

• Bowling for jQuery – April 2012, Washington, D.C.

  Richard D. Worth

  26 Mar 2012 | 11:00 am

  The jQuery team is going bowling and we’d love to have you join us! We’ll be spending the evening of Friday, April 13th at King Pinz in Leesburg, VA, a bit outside of Washington, DC. We’ll have a private room with 6 lanes from 6 to 10 PM. The night will feature unlimited bowling, dinner, desserts, drinks, and billiards. There’s even a cigar bar, if you’re into that! Very limited space – get your ticket fast. Bowling Private room with 6 lanes Unlimited bowling (shoe rental included) for 4 hours Cozy couches with cocktail tables King Pinz: Photos Private…

• jQuery 1.7.2 Released

  dmethvin

  21 Mar 2012 | 4:13 pm

  jQuery 1.7.2 is looking good! The release candidate went smoothly so we’ve made only one small change and are releasing it to your eager hands today. You can get the oven-fresh code from the jQuery CDN now, with Google and Microsoft CDNs soon to follow: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js (minified, production) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.js (unminified, debug) Note: If you’re using jQuery Mobile, please use jQuery 1.7.2 only with jQuery Mobile 1.1. For previous versions of jQuery Mobile, stay with jQuery core 1.7.1 or earlier. You can use the bug tracker to report…

• Announcing the 2012 San Francisco jQuery Conference!

  Leah Silber

  20 Mar 2012 | 11:40 am

  It’s that time of year again…time to talk about the next jQuery Conference! Mark your calendars for June 28th and 29th. By popular demand, the next jQuery Conference will be in San Francisco proper (as opposed to Mountain View), at the fantastic UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. If you haven’t been to an event there before, some highlights: Pretty much the best conference wifi we’ve ever worked with Pretty much the best conference food we’ve ever eaten Free flowing coffee, sodas and drinks all day long Great space, with comfy seating, great AV, parking,…

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• Watching a father fight cancer.

  Scott Barnes

  13 May 2012 | 1:58 am

  Its 11:30 PM on a Thursday night, my father is to my right in bed scared about one thing, drowning. He’s not afraid of dying; he made peace with the concept of what happens next long ago. He’s more concerned about drowning in whatever is pooling inside his chest due to the cancer aggressively growing inside of him. The doctors have said plain and to the point, that what will eventually take my father from this earth will be via drowning on his own internal chest fluids (among other things). In order to defeat this, he has decided to cheat his fears and up the dosage of morphine and…

• 27 Apr 2012 | 8:16 pm

  Scott Barnes

  27 Apr 2012 | 8:16 pm

  When I first came to the Microsoft community in 2007, I was amazed at how many experts there were covering a breadth of its products. Being from an Adobe/Java community originally we simply had a lot less vocal experts floating about and the ones that were regarded as experts, well they were easily identified through their work. To be fair, that’s really a personal issue as in the end if you assume the blog in front of you is an expert without studying their background or body of work, well, you’re the idiot not everyone else? True. Yet, I see this weird thing happening within the same…

• Windows 8 Enterprise Monkey Edition …Why not just “Windows”..

  Scott Barnes

  16 Apr 2012 | 10:24 pm

  Microsoft has this unique gift in their current product portfolios, that is they have a fairly wide range of offerings that at times on their own are quite brilliant and great to use. This now brings me to my state of confusion, that is to say why they spend so much energy and time confusing the masses when its clear their biggest competitor, Apple, have figured out the simplistic pattern of “less is more”. There is just Windows. Today, Brandon announced what will be the upcoming SKU’s for Windows 8, and yes the ye olde “pro” makes a comeback to a shrink wrap shelf near you. Stupid.

• Ex-Silverlighters and how they influence the vNext

  Scott Barnes

  10 Apr 2012 | 8:23 pm

  On the Interwebz, when you stumble your way through the various “Silverlight is dead”-style blog posts, what you will most likely see is the theme around skill transference. Silverlight advocates of the past, who have now switched over to WinRT, have begun to spread the message that not all is lost. You can take your Silverlight skills to WinRT! It’s Kool Aid Time: this year’s batch is Raspberry. When I read posts like these, I simply shake my head and admittedly get a little annoyed at the existence of such posts. More to the point, I’m also getting weary of seeing MVP’s of the…

• The problem with metro is it’s hard to differentiate

  Scott Barnes

  7 Mar 2012 | 5:56 pm

  I want you all to pause a moment or two. I want you all to sit in front of Windows 8, and explore it some more and get to be intimate with “metro” as a user interface style. Really, immerse yourself in it and just stare at it, explore every pixel it offers up. I now want you to imagine that this is going to be your user interface for the next 5years. Still onboard? I have been doing “metro” rinse/repeat designs for quite some time and it has long past bored me to the point where I wonder if I have metro-blindness now. That is I’ve stared at it for far to long that I really need a…

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  Silverlight Cream

• Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster in Phoenix 6/19/2012

  Dave Campbell

  10 May 2012 | 12:13 pm

  AZGroups 6/19/2012 Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster! June is hot in Phoenix... and June 19th is just a week before what was the hottest we've ever had. AZGroups is going to give 6/26/1990 a run for it's money by having Scott Guthrie back in town for an all-day free event! Scott is being joined this year by Scott Hanselman and Brady Gaster and will present on the following topics: Azure, ASP.NET, SignalR, and Web API. Seating is great but limited We're back to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts this year... great facility, and happy to be there, but there's only 800 seats. This…

• vNext Phoenix meeting tonight, May 2, 2012

  Dave Campbell

  2 May 2012 | 9:19 am

  vNext Phoenix Come out to the first vNext Phoenix meeting tonight at Interface Technical Training. Joe Guadagno of the Southwest Valley .Net UserGroup will be speaking on VS11:"If you want to follow along, I will be going over the new features of the IDE, which you can download from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads. I will also be covering some of the new features in .NET 4.5 like data binding for Web Forms." I'll be bringing some giveaways along and there will be pizza, soft drinks, and networking before Joe's talk. Come on down at 6PM tonight and join us at ITT on…

• Saving Telerik PersistenceFramework data to a string

  Dave Campbell

  21 Jan 2012 | 8:03 pm

  In the project I'm involved with, we've been saving column arrangement and column width data for quite a while. I had a request to give the users a way to select which columns to display and it just seemed natural to include the display order with that data. Recently I've been tasked with saving the filtering and sorting information as well. We're using the Telerik RadGrid, so I went to their site to find out how to do that. Saving all sorts of Grid-related data to Isolated Storage was really easy as I'll show first. Saving that data to the database was a bit more involved. I'm not going to…

• Moving UIElements around in Metro

  Dave Campbell

  2 Jan 2012 | 6:36 pm

  I'm playing with some code for the First Apps Contest, and since I had to dig some of this out, I thought maybe others might be interested. Was just thinking that ratting through documentation and trying to make stuff work is very reminiscent of WPF/E back in... holy crap... December 2006... doesn't seem like 5 years ago! Where to start I figured the easiest thing to do would be to put a circle on the screen and move it around. This has *got* to be easier than drag/drop, right? Well yes it is, but as with most things you gotta figure out where to poke it to make it work, and of course I got…

• One Month in... and things change...

  Dave Campbell

  27 Dec 2011 | 2:16 pm

  One month in... Well, it's been a month on the new site now. I guess at first I thought everyone would just start following the new feed and the traffic would magically appear at WDN, but I still saw a lot of folks hitting GWB, presumably looking for good Silverlight links. So I announced my postings at GWB to not leave anyone out of the loop. And now I find that's annoyed some people... sorry about that! I can't see cross-posting the posts completely, so you'll just have to go to the new site to see them I guess. SilverlightCream.com is still up and still growing with every post. The…

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• Thank You Microsoft!

  Microsoft Weblogs

  7 May 2012 | 2:39 pm

  Hello! A month ago I decided to leave Microsoft. Today, I’m writing to say thank you to all of you for your support and friendship throughout the years. It’s been quite a ride. I could write a book (or two) about all the things I learned while...(read more)

• "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" [An alternate implementation of HTTP gzip decompression for Windows Phone]

  Microsoft Weblogs

  19 Apr 2012 | 11:56 am

  The HTTP protocol supports data compression of network traffic via the Content-Encoding header . Compressing network traffic is beneficial because it reduces the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network - and sending fewer bytes obviously...(read more)

• Workaround for CA0055 Error with Silverlight Projects in Visual Studio 2010

  Microsoft Weblogs

  17 Apr 2012 | 2:07 pm

  This connect bug describes an issue with creating certain types of Silverlight projects in Visual Studio. If you're referencing Silverlight 4 DLLs from a Silverlight 5 project, you may run into this code analysis/FXCop issue yourself if code analysis...(read more)

• Released: New Version of Expression Blend for Silverlight 5

  Microsoft Weblogs

  29 Mar 2012 | 1:32 pm

  You may have noticed that your current copy of Expression Blend for Silverlight 5 expires in the next day or two. A new version of Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 is now out. Get it here . This new version has the all important go-live license...(read more)

• XAML Tip: Setting Attached Properties from Code

  Microsoft Weblogs

  29 Mar 2012 | 12:36 pm

  Recently, a reader asked how they should go about setting the Typography properties from code-behind. The original question was about Silverlight, but the approach works in WPF, Windows 8 and more. Given the following markup: <StackPanel> <TextBlock...(read more)

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  Oracle Bloggers

• Technical difficulties

  David Clack

  15 May 2012 | 4:50 pm

  Hi All,  So I'm having a few small technical difficulties here, I want to post some better pictures of the tablets and some movies of Java SE and JavaFX running on the tablets, we have a 2MB upload limit on the blog site, so I'm having to find ways of dealing with this.  Basically Tom knows now how to build a Linux for a stock tablet we can buy of the web, it's been much easier with Marvell, Freescale and FIC helping us with techniques and drivers. Touchscreen has cause Tom a lot of grief but we have single touch under control now. Getting a wifi network manager caused him fits, but…

• Freescale i.MX5x ARM tablet from FIC

  David Clack

  14 May 2012 | 3:51 pm

  Hi All,  So here are some pictures of the Freescale i.MX5x powered FIC tablet running our Linux (Open Embedded), XFCE desktop Java SE Embedded for ARM and Tom's JavaFX 2 build. FIC is a Freescale partner that built this tablet for a Brazilian customer.  My next task is to see if I can get the Canonical Ubuntu (Linaro) build for i.MX53 to boot on this device with the Unity desktop. I do have the Canonical build running on a i.MX6 quad core developer platform, so I'm hopeful the i.MX53 build will work on the tablet. More to come, like what would you want as hardware for a Java tablet…

• Who thinks a Linux ARM tablet with Java SE and JavaFX is a good idea ?

  David Clack

  12 May 2012 | 2:58 pm

  Hi All, So it's been awhile since I blogged, I've been busy with my colleague Tom Karbowski  investigating the whole would of ARM, Linux and tablets. Well because of the great work by Tom we now have a three tablets that don't run Android anymore. We have a Freescale, Nvidia Tegra 2 and Marvell powered tablets that run our version of Open Embedded Linux, they both run Java SE Embedded for ARM fine. Tom took the JavaFX code for Linux and cross compiled it for ARM. We still need to deal with power management of the tablet, but Tom has got most of the hardware working, touchscreen, wifi,…

• Looking Through the Telescope From the Big End: Four Small Java Developments that Pack a Punch!

  MarkH

  7 May 2012 | 2:11 pm

  There are a LOT of exciting developments in Java, almost on a daily basis. Most of them make a big splash, and for good reason! But sometimes, it's the little things... There have been a lot of small developments in Java that are pretty exciting, too. I'll pick out four of my favorites - each at a different level and/or stage of development or detail - and explain why they're a big deal. Let's get started! Home automation I had the privilege of watching Vinicius and Yara Senger give a presentation at Jfokus (available below at Parleys.com) on Java EE and home automation. The Sengers…

• JavaFX on the Raspberry Pi

  speakjava

  30 Apr 2012 | 12:58 pm

  Over the last few days I've been playing with the Raspberry Pi board (I was lucky enough to secure one of these as part of the work Oracle is doing to ensure that Java runs smoothly on it).  Initial setup was pretty straightforward although I did need to check the current rating of the power supply I was using as the board needs 700mA, which is more than a normal USB port or hub supplies.  I used Win32DiskManager to copy the OS image to an SD card and then gparted to resize the partition to use the whole 8Gb on the card rather than just 2Gb.  Since I don't have a spare monitor…

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• ColdFusion 10 is Now Available

  Cutter's Crossing

  15 May 2012 | 6:15 am

  Adobe has released ColdFusion 10. The engineering team has done a fantastic job putting this release together. Here's a short list of some of what's new: Improved/Updated caching ORM webservices scheduler hotfix management security MS Exchange integration security Solr charting (now html 5) Java integration Flex and AIR lazy loading VFS more! html 5 support websockets RESTful services greater cfscript parity geo-tagging CFC auto constructors method chaining closures Tomcat (no more JRun) more! Wow! A lot of changes and additions. The team has been in overdrive, and it all looks spectacular.

• ColdFusion 10 Released + Free Updater to ColdFusion Builder 2

  BigMadKev.com

  15 May 2012 | 2:14 am

  ColdFusion 10 has now been released with all the great new features: www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion  Security enhancements Dynamic and interactive HTML5 charting Hotfix installer and notification Improved web services support Improved and revamped scheduler Object relational mapping enhancements Enhanced caching Support for HTML5 web sockets Enterprise Infrastructure Tomcat integration Microsoft® Office file interoperability Support for RESTful web services Search improvements with Apache Solr Microsoft® Exchange Server integration HTML5 video player and Flash Player Language enhancements…

• Adobe Flash Platform Runtime and SDK Archives

  Photonburst's Ramblings

  14 May 2012 | 4:24 pm

  If you need to target an older version of Adobe AIR, especially if you are targeting device platforms (such as mobile phones and TVs), things can get a little tricky when you’re trying to match up versions: of Adobe Flash Builder (which was previously known as Adobe Flex Builder), Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex SDK, and [...]

• PhoneGap for Flex/AIR Mobile Developers

  DevGirl's Weblog

  14 May 2012 | 2:27 pm

  If you’re a Flex/AIR developer or any developer focused on mobile for that matter, I believe it’s worth your while to spend some time reading this first post in a series of posts I will be writing on using PhoneGap (aka Cordova) for building mobile apps. It’s another great technology choice for rapid cross-platform mobile [...]

• Looking For Old Flex SDKs?

  Official Adobe Flex Team Blog

  14 May 2012 | 2:13 pm

  Recently, folks have been having trouble downloading Flex SDKs. We apologize for any inconvenience. Unfortunately, an interesting set of circumstances have arisen that we are scrambling to work around. If you want to know more, read on, but if you just need to grab an SDK, please try the SWF in the following link. Download [...]

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  Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

• Weigh In On The Future Of BlazeDS

  Ben Forta

  8 May 2012 | 4:13 pm

  The BlazeDS team wants your opinion on how to best donate their work to Apache Software Foundation.

• LiveCycle ES3 Trial Download now Available

  LiveCycle Doc Team

  7 May 2012 | 4:23 pm

  The trial download for LiveCycle ES3 is now available – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/downloads.html.   The trial includes LiveCycle ES3 Server, LiveCycle ES3 Data Services, the development tools and extras such as the Reader Extensions certificate, Acrobat Pro for use with PDF Generator and … Continue reading →

• LiveCycle ES3 Trial Download now Available

  LiveCycle Product

  7 May 2012 | 4:13 pm

  The trial download for LiveCycle ES3 is now available – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/downloads.html.   The trial includes LiveCycle ES3 Server, LiveCycle ES3 Data Services, the development tools and extras such as the Reader Extensions certificate, Acrobat Pro for use with PDF Generator and … Continue reading →

• LiveCycle Data Services is now an “SAP Certified Integration with SAP NetWeaver”

  LiveCycle Doc Team

  3 May 2012 | 8:24 pm

  I’m happy to announce that we finally certified Data Services for use with SAP(R) systems. More specifically we did a BOR-API certification for an integration with SAP ECC 6.0 using the SAP Connector which is a new Data Services 4.6 … Continue reading →

• LiveCycle Data Services is now an “SAP Certified Integration with SAP NetWeaver”

  LiveCycle Product

  3 May 2012 | 8:14 pm

  I’m happy to announce that we finally certified Data Services for use with SAP(R) systems. More specifically we did a BOR-API certification for an integration with SAP ECC 6.0 using the SAP Connector which is a new Data Services 4.6 … Continue reading →

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  SproutCore

• SproutCore 1.8.2 Released

  SproutCore

  12 May 2012 | 4:49 pm

  [edit] Due to a mistake in the included files of the published 1.8.2 gem, the gem needed to be re-built.  Therefore the current working version of the gem for SproutCore 1.8.2 is sproutcore-1.8.2.1.  Sorry for any confusion. We are pleased to announce the release of SproutCore 1.8.2. This release contains minor fixes to the 1.8 code-base and will likely be the last patch of 1.8 prior to the 1.9.0 release. To upgrade to the latest version, simply run: gem update sproutcore This is a patch release and contains the following bug fixes: Fixed syntax error in Datastore unit test. SC.SplitView…

• Announcing SproutCore 1.8.1!

  SproutCore

  10 Apr 2012 | 10:01 pm

  We’re pleased to announce the release of SproutCore 1.8.1.  To upgrade to the latest version, simply run: gem update sproutcore If you installed SproutCore using the installer, please note that due to the strain that maintaining the installers puts on the release process, we will not be updating the installer for each patch level release.   Therefore, to get the very latest stable version, it is recommended that you install the SproutCore gem. Installing the gem is actually quite easy and there are detailed instructions for each platform at http://sproutcore.com/install/.  Simply…

• Wesley Workman & Tim Evans are now SproutCore Reviewers

  Tyler Keating

  19 Mar 2012 | 11:11 pm

  Please join us in congratulating Tim and Wesley on achieving SproutCore Reviewer status.  They are two of the most active contributors and have shown that they share our ideal of making SproutCore the most feature rich and highest quality application development framework. More importantly, please join us in thanking Tim and Wesley and all the Committers and Reviewers for the work they’ve done to get us here.  We ask a lot of our burgeoning team and we are fortunate to have such people.

• Announcing SproutCore 1.8!

  Tyler Keating

  7 Mar 2012 | 12:48 am

  I’m very pleased to announce the release of SproutCore version 1.8.0.  This release includes several new features, improvements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all SproutCore developers. To install the latest version of SproutCore, visit http://sproutcore.com/install/ to get an updated installer for your system or if you are using the SproutCore gem, simply run: gem update sproutcore Thoughts on SproutCore But before I get into some of the technical details of 1.8, I wanted to give a brief update on the status of the project.  I want to do this, because this release is…

• Sprint Towards 1.8 Release

  Tyler Keating

  21 Feb 2012 | 11:56 am

  SproutCore is about to get a new release on February 29, 2012 and we want to kick it off with an important sprint over the last weekend of the month.  As an open-source project, the success of SproutCore depends on you and others like you, so please consider setting aside some time to get involved.  Thanks! Name:  SproutCore 1.8 Release Sprint Dates:  Friday, Feb. 24 through Monday, Feb. 27, free-form style Topics:  Will include both code and doc tasks. Please follow the wiki page:  https://github.com/sproutcore/sproutcore/wiki/1.8-Release-Sprint   Aside:  We’ve decided that…

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  Think Vitamin

• Free Video: iOS Blocks and Categories

  Amit Bijlani

  15 May 2012 | 10:42 am

  In this 5:30 minute video, you will learn that a category is used to define additional methods of an existing class without subclassing. And blocks are simply a block of executable code that have access to local variables and can be stored or passed around. This video is the first video in the iOS Blocks and Categories badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos. The entire Blocks and Categories badge consists of the following videos: Categories Blocks – Part 1 Blocks – Part 2 Other topics on Treehouse include topics like ……

• Free Video: iOS Property Lists

  Amit Bijlani

  30 Apr 2012 | 9:01 am

  In this 6:46 minute video, you’ll learn about property lists also known as a “plist”, a structured data representation used as a convenient way to store, organize, and access standard types of data. This video is the first video in the iOS – App Settings badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos. The entire iOS Tutorial – App Settings: Property List consists of the following videos: Property List Settings Bundle NSUserDefaults Setup Defaults Change Notification Other topics on Treehouse include topics like ……

• Free Video: Ruby Hashes

  Jason Seifer

  25 Apr 2012 | 1:45 pm

  In this 7:18 minute video, you’ll learn what hashes are, how they work in Ruby, and how to create them yourself. This video is the first video in the Ruby Hashes badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos. The entire Ruby Arrays badge consists of the following videos: Creating Hashes Keys and Values Working With Hashes Iteration Enumerable Other topics on Treehouse include topics like … Accessibility HTML Website Basics CSS3 Aesthetic Foundations HTML5 iOS Development JavaScript Responsive Web Design Ruby New videos are added regularly,…

• Tony Hsieh and Zach Ware of Zappos – Speaking at FILive!

  Lou Morgan

  18 Apr 2012 | 10:49 am

  We have an amazing late addition to our Future Insights Live show taking place in Vegas in less than 2 weeks time…. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Lead Developer, Zach Ware - will be joining us on stage for a special extended Keynote! That’s right – the infamous Vegas company will be joining us to discuss The City As A Startup. Zappos are helping accelerate community, learning, and serendipity in downtown Vegas to generate productivity, innovation, and happiness and will share their insights with you. If you’d like to see Tony and Zach on stage, they’ll be speaking on…

• Free Video: Building Accessible Charts

  Nick Pettit

  11 Apr 2012 | 8:00 am

  In this 6 minute video, you’ll learn how to create a simple bar graph from scratch by using HTML and CSS. This bar graph is made with screen readers in mind, and doesn’t make use of images or browser plugins. This video is the third video in the Accessibility: Web Apps badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos. The entire Accessibility: Web Apps badge consists of the following videos: Forms Tables Charts and Graphs Other topics on Treehouse include topics like … Accessibility HTML Website Basics CSS3 Aesthetic Foundations HTML5…

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• DCurl and CSPD

  15 May 2012 | 11:55 am

  Does a Dcurl on a local machine require a license to be able to write CSPD (client-side persistent data) ? Code which runs CSPD fine at the server fails to write as a local DCurl ( change is only to a View with a window close handler) Is it really the Pro IDE license that is required ? Example: privileged applet at http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/joyo-2...ji-nc.html The "-nc" suffix stands for "no cookies", i.e., uses CSPD to recover state.

• TextFieldのフォーカスについて

  14 May 2012 | 8:34 am

  どうやってTextFieldにフォーカスをセットして、TextFieldの入力している文字が選択されるようになります。 よろしくお願いします。

• 常用漢字

  14 May 2012 | 8:12 am

  I have added a Curl applet with the 常用漢字 (jōyō kanji) but it uses cookies; a version using client-side persistent data (CSPD) only is here. The "inner" buttons at the top are not bound to the RecordForm commands. The "outer" arrow-buttons are bound to "move-previous" and "move-forward" with slight delay. You can see the difference by using the entry field to "jump forward": say you are at 8; enter 900 and hit ENTER. After the jump has displayed, click the LEFT "inner" button. You should "jump back" to 8. That left inner button is using the Command object of the RecordSetDisplay. The…

• RecordForm do-command "move-to"

  13 May 2012 | 7:22 am

  すみません、してください。 I am having some problems with command "move-to" for a RecordForm. What I need is the result for the last index which the user actually visited or should visit next - and not just "move-previous" and "move-next". {output for supported? and enabled? shows that "move-to" is supported but it is only enabled after a first use by a bound control. The RecordForm control panel obviously uses the command for its idx entry field ... Any help will be much appreciated. You can see my problem at http://aule-browser.com/kanji/index.html#curl1 where you enter some…

• Session Cookies - セッション

  11 May 2012 | 7:36 am

  I noticed when working on a small user utility that session cookies are lasting not for the "browser" session but for the Surge RTE "session". Even with {on-applet-suspend do {exit 0}} and with no applets reported by the Curl Manager, my session cookies only clear when the process surge.exe is cycled. I have only checked this using IE 8 and Firefox 12 on XP with curl9 (Curl 8.0) The one mention which I found in the docs is as follows: || Expires and other fields may return null, || If expires means null, then this is a cookie || that only lasts until the current session || ends (i.e. user…

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• Friending non-humans: A lazy foodie’s hack for the Android address book

  arpit

  4 May 2012 | 5:34 pm

  Probably not one my best characteristics but I do tend to order in a lot of food from a variety of places near my apartment. There are also enough places around where I live that I end up trying a bunch of different places and then when a familiar menu comes up again I am often left wondering “what did I eat there the last time, and how good was it?”. I was half tempted to create a food journal app specifically for delivery food. Think of it as a Foodspotting / Foursquare app but more like a personal diary than a social app. Neat idea I guess, except I have almost no time these…

• Ice Cream Sandwich designs on Android

  arpit

  8 Apr 2012 | 4:49 pm

  The biggest critique for Android (besides software update uncertainties) for the longest time has been the poor design of most Android apps. While some app developers did do a good job with their apps, the lack of any kind of design guidelines for developers meant everyone was finding his own way to create a good experience on the platform. This also meant that apps tended to look very different from each other. The introduction of Ice Cream Sandwich design guidelines at the beginning of this year seemed to be a step in the right direction, but in the back of my head I was worried it could…

• Emmy’d

  arpit

  18 Mar 2012 | 10:31 am

  Wow, my first Emmy, Rather Comcast’s Emmy for “Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development” for the iPad app I worked on for most of 2010. This one is my copy of it that now adorns the top shelf in my office. Bonus points for being one of the first 3 engineers on the project! You can find a more complete writeup on the award on the Comcast Voices blog. I haven’t been involved in that app since Jan 2011 and was recently informed that most of my code has finally been refactored out with newer/better implementations, but here’s hoping there is at least one…

• Introducing SuperLoader: a better AS3 library for fetching images

  arpit

  22 Jan 2012 | 3:22 pm

  This post is way overdue but in any case, I’d like to introduce (rather belatedly) SuperLoader, an image loading library for AS3. The library grew out of my work when I was building the magazine view for EspressoReader. The magazine view builds a visual grid from the images found in a collection of blogs you are browsing. Here is a screenshot of the experience: While building the Magazine View, I was faced with a problem. Each “page” of the view read 10 blog entries and then needed to find the most relevant image to show in the interface for each entry. Posts tend to have…

• Air for mobile’s weird touch implementation

  arpit

  16 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm

  Let me begin by saying that after playing with Adobe AIR for mobile for the last couple of weeks, I have been really pleasantly surprised by general performance. I have done quite a bit of mobile device development off late with both iOS and Android, but AIR might actually be a contender for my next project. That said, I am kinda surprised by the touch event implementation. I am hoping someone will correct me if I am missing something but here is what I am seeing so far. In AIR, you can now choose to set a Multitouch Input mode to either intercept raw touch events…

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• Flash Player 11.2 Breaks Video Support For Some Webcams

  19 Apr 2012 | 10:37 pm

  An annoying bug has surfaced in Flash Player 11.2 that breaks support for some webcams. It appears that cameras of the Microsoft Lifecam VX series are most affected. A few days ago a customer contacted me about an issue he was experiencing on Scribb...

• Adobe To Shut Down LCCS, Customers Badly Affected

  23 Mar 2012 | 2:34 am

  After several recent announcement around Adobe's LiveCycle platform, it may not come as a surprise to some that the LiveCycle Collaboration Service (formerly Cocomo, formerly Flash Collaboration Service) will be shut down at the end of 2012. What may...

• Tomorrow: Getting Familiar with Flash Media Server

  12 Mar 2012 | 3:12 am

  Joseph Labrecque will be presenting 'Getting Familiar with Flash Media Server' tomorrow (Tuesday, March 13th) at the FMS Online User Group. FMSUG is thrilled to have Joseph Labrecque, Adobe Education Leader and Adobe Community Professional presentin...

• Web Video Workshops for Multi-Screen Delivery in New York - Now with 10% Discount

  5 Mar 2012 | 9:25 am

  If you are in or near New York City on April 10th 2012 and are interested in web video then this one day workshop by my friend and co-author Jan Ozer and fellow developer Lisa Larson-Kelley is for you. What's more, you can use the discount code SLC10...

• Easily Monitor Log File Output in OSX Terminal (tail -F)

  28 Feb 2012 | 1:34 am

  Here's a quick tip that is a real time saver in some situations. As a developer you often come across programs, tools or servers that produce output in form of a log file. Or maybe - and this includes myself - you use logs for debugging purposes. In...

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  Developer Techno

• Large-scale data processing in Cloud

  Developer Techno

  14 May 2012 | 11:58 am

  The lure of cloud computing is its elasticity: You can add as much capacity as you need to process and analyze your data. The data might be processed on clusters of computers. This means that the analysis is occurring across machines. Companies are considering this approach to help them manage their supply chains and inventory control. Or, consider the case of a company processing product data, from across the country, to determine when to change a price or introduce a promotion. This data might come from the point-of-sale (POS) systems across multiple stores in multiple states. POS systems…

• COMPARING NOSQL PRODUCTS - Access and Interface Availability

  Developer Techno

  11 May 2012 | 12:51 pm

  MongoDB has the notion of drivers. Drivers for most mainstream libraries are available for interfacing and interacting with MongoDB. CouchDB uses web-standard ways of interaction and so you can connect to it using any programming language that supports the web idiom of communication. Wrappers for some languages make communication to CouchDB work like drivers for MongoDB, though CouchDB always has the RESTful HTTP interface available. Redis, Membase, Riak, HBase, Hypertable, Cassandra, and Voldemort have support for language bindings to connect from most mainstream languages. Many of these…

• COMPARING NOSQL PRODUCTS - Querying Support

  Developer Techno

  8 May 2012 | 12:47 pm

  Storage is one part of the puzzle. The other is querying the stored data. Easily and effectively querying data is almost mandatory for any database to be considered seriously. It can be especially important when building the operational data store for applications with which people are interacting. An RDBMS thrives on SQL support, which makes accessing and querying data easy. Standardized syntax and semantics make it an attractive choice. The fi rst chapter in this book talks about the quest for a SQL-like query language in the world of NoSQL. Among document databases, MongoDB provides the…

• COMPARING NOSQL PRODUCTS - Data Modeling

  Developer Techno

  4 May 2012 | 12:44 pm

  RDBMS offers a consistent way of modeling data. Relational algebra underlies the data model. The theory is well established and implementation is standardized. Therefore, consistent ways of modeling and normalizing data is well understood and documented. In the NoSQL world there is no such standardized and well-defined data model. This is because all NoSQL products do not intend to solve the same problem or have the same architecture. If you need an RDBMS-centric data model for storage and querying and cannot under any circumstances step outside those definitions, just don’t use NoSQL. If,…

• COMPARING NOSQL PRODUCTS - Transactional Integrity and Consistency

  Developer Techno

  30 Apr 2012 | 12:38 pm

  Transactional integrity is relevant only when data is modified, updated, created, and deleted. Therefore, the question of transactional integrity is not pertinent in pure data warehousing and mining contexts. This means that batch-centric Hadoop-based analytics on warehoused data is also not subject to transactional requirements. Many data sets like web traffic log files, social networking status updates (including tweets or buzz), advertisement click-through imprints, road-traffic data, stock market tick data, and game scores are primarily, if not completely, written once and read multiple…

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  SilverlightShow: Silverlight Community

• Daily News Digest 5/15/2012

  15 May 2012 | 10:17 am

  Here is the new SilverlightShow content for Tuesday, May 15th, 2012: Our 'Live Tiles & Notifications in Win8' Webinar Rescheduled for May 22nd. Slides Now Available! SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 7 - 13, 2012 WP7 Turnstile Transition with Continuum Animation Windows 8 Feature Focus: Start Screen Sharing Links from IE10 on Windows 8 Create simple 3d game with physics in Windows Phone 7 Now in Marketplace: The Official LinkedIn Application Supporting light and dark theme with dynamic background images Windows Phone and Geo Augmented Reality Toolkit (GART) Use Built-In Application…

• Our 'Live Tiles & Notifications in Win8' Webinar Rescheduled for May 22nd. Slides Now Available!

  15 May 2012 | 9:31 am

  Our next live session 'Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8' is postponed for May 22nd (the initially announced date was May 17th) due to some last-minute changes in the schedule of our webinar presenter Gill Cleeren. Join us live next Tuesday at 10 am PST (check your local time). Register for free here! To get a clue on the topics Gill is going to cover in this live session, we've made the webinar slides publicly available: Download the slides Gill is also co-author of the Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook that was recently published by Packt Publishing. Read SilverlightShow…

• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 7 - 13, 2012

  15 May 2012 | 9:14 am

  Let's take a quick look and see which are the most popular news from our fellow site SilverlightCream.com for the past week. Thanks to Dave Campbell for providing the below stats! Top 5 SilverlightCream news for May 7-13, 2012: Metro style applications – designing for the user Silverlight ViewModel Tests Learn jQuery Part1: Introduction to jQuery Connecting to WCF RIA Services in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using Upshot.js and Knockout.js Part 87 - Windows Phone - Important Design Guidelines Dave is also the man behind WindowsDevNews.com. Check this site and make sure…

• WP7 Turnstile Transition with Continuum Animation

  15 May 2012 | 6:54 am

  Read original post by Matthijs Krempel at the Windows Phone 7 Developer Blog Mark Monster kiddingly commented on my last post that a continuum transition in combination with the turnstile, would be awesome. As I always take things like feedback drop dead serious (not really, just thought it was a good idea), I decided to give it a go. Like any good developer, my quest began with a bing search, which lead me to this post: http://benjii.me/2011/11/continuum-transition-for-windows-phone-silverlight-toolkit/ I have integrated Ben’s solution into the toolkit and completely…

• Windows 8 Feature Focus: Start Screen

  15 May 2012 | 6:46 am

  Read original post by Paul Thurrott at the SuperSite for Windows The Start screen is the face of the Metro environment in Windows 8 and the controversial replacement for the application launching capabilities of the Start menu from previous Windows versions. A full-screen experience, this interface is populated with live tiles representing Metro-style apps, desktop applications, web sites, libraries and folder locations, and other items.

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• Mountains

  admin

  9 May 2012 | 2:36 pm

  I’ve not blogged for really long time I do not have much free time for that and if I find any free time lastly I’m composing music. It’s my hobby and passion and never study music composition. If you’re interested you can listen my latest compositions on my soundcloud account. I would be glad if you leave me comments on my tracks. Here is first composition made in Cubase 6. I choose theme “Mountains”. This track should have atmoshere of fly over the high mountains, feeling of solutitude and greatness of mountains, where man can just stands small and…

• Tower Defense Design – The Future of Gaming?

  admin

  26 Jul 2011 | 11:59 am

  I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed something of a trend on the Android Marketplace, and for that matter, on most arcade-game style marketplaces – the appearance of wave after wave of tower defense titles. Their popularity has soared to the point where it’s hard to envision the indie games market without these titles. Of course, there are big-budget versions – DoubleFine’s “Trenched” is a good example of the fact that major studios and developers are paying close attention to. Whether you’re looking at gaming phones on o2.co.uk or…

• WordPress Mobile Edition

  admin

  26 Nov 2010 | 4:56 pm

  If you have your wordpress based blog and want to have “mobile” version of your blog, there is nothing easier. You can download WordPress Mobile Edition and install it. Plugin includes mobile theme which is independent of your currently used wordpress theme. If user is viewing your blog from mobile device like iPhone, Android or other mobile devices, wordpress mobile edition theme will be displayed, otherwise your selected theme is used. All you need to do is just activate plugin. Go and let’s try it. If you are viewing this post from your mobile device, please let me know…

• Flex Hero – Android links collection

  admin

  16 Nov 2010 | 5:21 pm

  Lately in my free time I’ve started to learn Flex Hero to be able to develop mobile applications for Android devices in Flex. I’ve downloaded Flash Builder Burrito from Adobe Labs, which already consists Flex Hero SDK, so I could immediately start developing my first Flex Android application. It’s quite new area and there is lot of articles, tutorials, examples about Android application development in Flex Hero. I’m collecting links for me and for you as a source of help and knowledge base for developing Android applications in Flex. I hope my collection will be useful…

• Send links to your Android

  admin

  10 Nov 2010 | 3:35 pm

  Browsing in my HTC Desire HD is very nice, though I don’t like that much write long URLs on touch screen. Normal keyboard is still better for me. But if you’re sitting in front of computer there is nice way to send URL links from your computer to your Android device. I’m sure there are more solutions, but this one works for me nicely. It’s Google Chrome To Phone extension for Google Chrome browser. Also you need to install application on your Android device as well: http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone. Please be aware Android 2.2 (Froyo) is required and also Google…

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  Serge Jespers

• HTC One X: This is how you do an Android device!

  Serge Jespers

  1 May 2012 | 5:33 pm

  I can describe the HTC One X in one word: A-MA-ZING! But before I continue… A little disclaimer: I was given a free HTC One X as a member of a special HTC community program. I was under no obligation to talk about this product or company. I get no additional benefits for talking about the product or company. Now that we got that out of the way I can finally tell you about this amazing new HTC phone. I’ve been an HTC-fan since I was given a Nexus One 2.5 years ago. I was an iPhone user before that. In all honesty… I hated it at first. I hated the UI but immediately fell in…

• What happens in an Internet minute?

  Serge Jespers

  30 Mar 2012 | 1:10 pm

  Just came across this interesting infographic put together by Intel. Every minute 639.800 gigabytes of data get transferred globally, 240 million emails are sent, 47.000 apps are downloaded, 30 hours of video get uploaded to YouTube and 1.3 million videos will be watched on YouTube. Pretty amazing numbers… Intel also estimated that by 2015  the number of networked devices is expected to be double the world’s population. And by the time we reach 2015, it would take five years to view all the video content crossing IP networks each second.

• Flash raising the bar for browser based games

  Serge Jespers

  8 Mar 2012 | 11:17 am

  “This isn’t your father’s Farmville,” Epic’s Mark Rein said on Kotaku. I couldn’t have said it better! Make sure you download and install Flash Player 11.2 RC2 from Adobe Labs (yes… also when you’re using Chrome) and give it a try yourself! Flash on!

• Kinect + Stage3D + Away3D + AIR = pure gold!

  Serge Jespers

  31 Jan 2012 | 11:09 am

  Check. This. Out! Wouter Verweirder (lector at HOWEST in Kortrijk, Belgium, Adobe Education Leader and wizard owner of/consultant at Happy Banana) recently released an extension for AIR that allows you to use Microsoft’s Kinect sensordata in your AIR applications. To showcase the power of this he just released this video where he’s actually controlling a 3D model (rendered with Away3D on Stage3D in AIR) with his own movements. Pure gold! Can you imagine the possibilities?

• Flex team looking for committers

  Serge Jespers

  15 Dec 2011 | 2:45 pm

  One of the requirements for a proposal to incubate a new project in the Apache Software Foundation (like we are doing for Flex) is to have an initial set of committers. The Flex SDK team is looking for committers and has just published a blog post with more information.

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  ThinkTank | The XLabz Blog

• Sketch W Friends’ newest Avatar!

  XLabz

  23 Apr 2012 | 12:30 pm

  We are extremely excited to present to you the latest version of Sketch W Friends! This is our BIGGEST update so far! Here’s what this version (v3.0 for iPad and v2.x for Android Tablets & PlayBook) has to offer: Sketch W Friends just got a facelift! The game now has a fresh & swanky UI which we think will knock your socks off! Friends & Family: Private Rooms where you can invite your Facebook friends to play, with a maximum limit of 8 people per room Artistry: A special drawing zone where you can draw at length and share your sketches on Facebook and Twitter Me vs Bot: Not in a…

• Sketch W Friends: #1 Free Game on the Amazon App Store!!!

  XLabz

  29 Mar 2012 | 1:00 pm

  March 25th, 2012- A day that will be written in GOLD, in the history of XLabz! Sketch W Friends, the game which has been keeping all of us on our toes since launch date, hit the #1 spot on the Amazon App Store, overtaking all the BIG names in the gaming world!! Sketch W Friends was initially launched with just 10 game rooms and now based on HUGE demand; we’ve increased the number of rooms all the way up to 100! We’ve seen some massive game action ever since launch date and are completely overwhelmed by the response! We did have a few teething issues, but we’ve managed to roll out quite…

• ProInsights for iPad, PlayBook and Android Tablets Update – V2.0

  XLabz

  19 Mar 2012 | 3:30 pm

  We’d like to announce the release of the latest update for ProInsights – V2.0! ProInsights creates interesting infographics from your LinkedIn profile and helps you visualize and gain deep insight into your network. It uses the data from your LinkedIn profile and shows you useful nuggets of information through a cool portfolio style design. Our earlier update; ProInsights V1.1 included the following features: Ability to email Infographics from within the app (for iPad only) Click on connections photo in the Photo Wall widget to see profile information Here’s the list of new features in…

• Sketch W Friends: #2 Paid Game on the BlackBerry App World!!!

  XLabz

  19 Mar 2012 | 12:30 pm

  A moment we’ll never forget… Sketch W Friends- our very first attempt at real-time gaming; has done us proud! One day after launch, Sketch W Friends becomes the #2 Paid Game on the whole of the BlackBerry App World! Right next to Angry Birds, in fact!! The BlackBerry community deserves a very special mention. We have never seen a more supportive, enthusiastic and appreciative set of people, who’ve not just given us constructive criticism; but have gone a long way in being our brand advocates. A special shout-out to the CrackBerry community; who’ve been cheering and encouraging us ever…

• Uber Iris – “Featured App” on the BlackBerry App World!!

  XLabz

  2 Mar 2012 | 9:30 am

  We are extremely excited to announce that Uber Iris is now sitting pretty amongst the Featured Apps on the BlackBerry App World! Here’s an excerpt from Ryan Edsall’s review of Uber Iris on Berryfication: “I’ve got nothing but love for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Now with the combination of the advanced developers such as XLabz Technologies and the PlayBook, we are starting to see some really quality stuff hitting App World. Their latest release Uber Iris has me giddy like a schoolgirl!” And here’s what few of our users had to say so far about Uber Iris: “And my collection of XLabz…

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  WordPress.com News

• Stay In The Conversation

  Beau Lebens

  15 May 2012 | 6:01 pm

  It’s now much easier for you and your commenters to keep track of the conversations you’re involved in across WordPress.com. Some recent tests have shown that by subscribing commenters to new comments by default, they are more likely to stay engaged and come back and comment more on your blog. With that knowledge, we’ve changed the default comment following behavior to help you get more conversations going on your blog. We made the initial changes last week and after great feedback from you we just launched an update. Here’s how it works: By default, posting a comment…

• Look at These Gorgeous Blogs

  Sheri

  15 May 2012 | 1:05 pm

  We’ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover details about what each showcase blog is doing with WordPress.com themes and customizations by clicking a thumbnail to see a colophon-style list of credits on the left. We’ve also updated footer links so blog owners can show off the types of customizations they’ve made and visitors can…

• Photo Blogging 101, Part 1

  Erica V.

  14 May 2012 | 10:00 am

  Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here. Getting started Photo blogs, sometimes called phlogs, use pictures instead of words. While many photo bloggers choose a type of photo that they want to focus on, such as portraits, others use their photo blog to document their life’s events. Photo blogs come in a variety of styles, including…

• New Themes: Just Desserts and Oxygen

  Michelle Langston

  10 May 2012 | 8:11 am

  Happy Thursday! We’ve added some exciting new themes to our ever-growing collection, and we’re happy to tell you all about them. First out of the oven is…Just Desserts. Yep, that’s a theme! Designed by Andy Rutledge, Just Desserts is a deliciously stylish premium theme that’s perfect for blogs centered on food. With its responsive, single-column layout and unique presentation of images and posts on the front page, Just Desserts gives you a delectable canvas on which your mouthwatering photos and text can really shine — even when viewed on smaller mobile devices…

• Find Friends Who Use WordPress

  Nick Momrik

  1 May 2012 | 2:32 pm

  Are you curious to see how your friends are using WordPress? Give the new and improved Friend Finder a try to connect with your Twitter, Facebook, and Google contacts who have WordPress sites! After authorizing WordPress.com to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account to find your friends (don’t worry — none of this account information is saved!) you’ll see a list of people you know who have WordPress sites. Click Follow and each time your friend publishes a new post it will show up in your Reader under Blogs I Follow. If you have multiple blogs, make sure to set the…