RIA (Rich Internet Apps)

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• First Thoughts Learning Ext JS 4.1

  Sencha Blog

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm

  I wanted to share my thoughts on my progress learning Ext JS 4.1 as a developer new to Sencha. As an application developer I have used many different development environments and application frameworks throughout my career and whenever I learn something new I compare back to my experience. Overall I have been very impressed with Sencha frameworks as they provide a professional foundation to build an application atop. Interpreted The single hardest shift for me is embracing the interpreted nature of JavaScript within the Ext JS framework in general. While not new to interpreted systems, I…

• Apache Flex and the community

  RIAgora

  admin

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:18 am

  Flex is now an Apache project in incubation (as PhoneGap under the name ‘Cordova’). The community is hyper-active and it’s not a surprise. If you look at what the community has achieved around Flex since its creation, you’ll directly understand why Apache Flex will be successful. Macromedia, and then Adobe, defined Flex’s vision, launching and promoting the concept of Rich Internet Applications. Basically, this trend promotes the development of “software-like” interfaces in web browsers. RIA can answer large organizations needs who want to migrate…

• New tutorial on using mouse lock with FP 11.2

  leebrimelow.com

  Lee Brimelow

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm

  Update: I just uploaded a new version of this tutorial that is much clearer and understandable. Empty your cache and check it out. I just uploaded a new tutorial that explains how to use the new mouse lock feature that is included in Flash Player 11.2. This feature allows you to create infinite mouse scrolling while in fullscreen mode, which is essential for things like first-person shooter games.

• New blog on web development

  aralbalkan.com

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am

  I just released a new blog called What, Where, Why?, focused specifically on web development, the Internets, and other related geekery. There are already a number of posts on the site, including one titled Octopress in the Cloud explaining the technologies I used on the blog (which include Octopress, Amazon S3, CloudFront, and Route 53) and my latest post on two tools two help you develop responsive designs. Hope you enjoy it! I will be releasing a few other subject-area blogs in the coming days and this blog will continue as a place for general news, and updates on what I'm doing. Check out…

• New: Native iOS development workshop in Brighton, Feb 22-24th

  aralbalkan.com

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:49 am

  I'm teaching my highly-acclaimed Native iOS development workshop in Brighton (UK) next month, from the 22nd-24th of February. The course will give you strong foundations in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch to give you a solid start to building your own iOS apps in just three days. You will be using the latest iOS SDK (iOS 5) and the latest Xcode (4.2). Tickets are £999+VAT for the three days. If you're a freelancer or a one-person company, use the code IAMAFREELANCER to get 20% off that price. Find out more information and reserve your seat today as there are only 12 spots open on the course.

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  ActionScript

• Introducing Starling

  O'Reilly Media, Inc.

  12 Jan 2012 | 4:16 pm

  Starling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases. Starling makes it possible to write fast GPU accelerated applications without having to touch the low-level Stage3D APIs. Most Flash developers want to be able to leverage GPU acceleration (through Stage3D) without the need to write such higher-level frameworks and dig into the low-level Stage3D APIs. Starling is completely designed after the Flash Player APIs and…

• What's New in Flash Player 11

  Joseph Labrecque

  6 Dec 2011 | 9:05 pm

  This book will present you with a full rundown of all the new features in the upcoming Flash Player 11 runtime. Along with each feature, if applicable, will be a demonstration of how to employ the new feature. There's also be a short introduction to Flash Player and a chapter dedicated to providing you with additional resources.

• Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant

  Sidney de Koning

  12 Oct 2011 | 8:07 pm

  Automating repetitive programming tasks is easier than many Flash/AS3 developers think. With the Ant build tool, the Eclipse IDE, and this concise guide, you can set up your own "ultimate development machine" to code, compile, debug, and deploy projects faster. You’ll also get started with versioning systems, such as Subversion and Git.

• Creating HTML5 Animations with Flash and Wallaby

  Ian McLean

  7 Sep 2011 | 3:40 pm

  Creating standards-compliant animations for the Web just got a lot easier. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to convert Flash animations into HTML5, using Wallaby—the experimental tool from Adobe. Wallaby makes Flash content available for devices that don’t support Flash runtimes, including the iPhone and iPad. This book shows you how to create compelling content for HTML5 environments with relative ease—whether you know Flash or not.

• Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual

  David Sawyer McFarland

  25 Jun 2011 | 2:35 pm

  Adobe's website-development program lets you revamp an existing site, or design, build, and manage a new one without writing a single line of code. But learning Dreamweaver is tricky. This step-by-step guide helps you master this versatile program with jargon-free language, hands-on tutorials, and savvy advice from a Dreamweaver pro.

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  Ryan Stewart - Mountaineer Coding

• HTML/JS/CSS and Tooling

  ryanstewart

  19 Jan 2012 | 3:13 pm

  I enjoyed this post by Grant Skinner that walks through his view of the evolution of technology and where/how/when tooling starts to come in. Adobe makes tools for web professionals. That’s what we’ve always done and that’s what we’ll do for a long time. You could even paint a broader brush that we make tools for creative people to share their creations. Watching our own evolution over the past year or so with regards to HTML tooling has been very interesting. We got some flack for not moving in earlier, but as Grant rightly points out, tools are a major investment and…

• Appreciating Tricks Because of What They Can Represent

  ryanstewart

  16 Jan 2012 | 5:28 pm

  Jeff Croft has a nice riff on some of the responses he got when he tweeted about what Steven Witten has done with his site, acko.net. It’s an insanely cool piece of CSS and 3D work and Steven did an informative writeup

• Slides for my PhoneGap Presentation

  ryanstewart

  16 Jan 2012 | 4:38 pm

  I had the chance to present to the Seattle Web App Developers Group (formerly the Flex UG) and here are the slides from that presentation. Thanks a ton to everyone who came out. It was a lot of fun and it was exciting to see so many people interested in PhoneGap. PhoneGap: Building Mobile Applications with HTML/JS View more presentations from Ryan Stewart Tweet

• Building a Mobile-Themed Slider without jQuery Mobile

  ryanstewart

  5 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm

  I’m generally a big fan of jQuery mobile. I think it’s an ambitious project and it’s got some areas that could be improved, but I’m glad we’re contributing and think it’s going to be a huge boon for mobile web applications as they get bigger and bigger. But building PhoneGap applications with jQuery Mobile is a bit problematic partly because the goal for the project is “Delivering top-of-the-line JavaScript and a unified User Interface across the most-used smartphone web browsers…” and partly because jQuery Mobile can be tough to really…

• Must Read: JavaScript: The Good Parts

  ryanstewart

  27 Dec 2011 | 10:15 pm

  JavaScript: The Good PartsI just finished JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford and I highly, highly recommend it for anyone who is coming from a programming world that isn’t JavaScript. It’s an intelligent, and well-written book, but it also does the best job of anything I’ve seen yet at explaining some of the nuances of JavaScript and why they can be beneficial. I was absolutely one of those people who looked at JavaScript as a runty kid brother when I compared it to ActionScript 3. I started off wanting a lot of what ActionScript 3 had in JavaScript. This book…

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  Christophe Coenraets

• Using Backbone.js with a RESTful Java Back-End

  Christophe

  10 Jan 2012 | 11:39 am

  In a previous post, RESTful services with jQuery and Java using JAX-RS and Jersey, I demonstrated how to build a RESTful API using JAX-RS and Jersey, and how to build a jQuery application that leverages that API. The application used as an example was a Wine Cellar management application. In follow-up posts, “Backbone.js Wine Cellar Tutorial” (part1, part 2, part 3), I showed how to add structure to the client-side of the Wine Cellar application using Backbone.js. But that three-part tutorial was provided with a PHP back-end. By popular demand, here is a version of the Backbone.js…

• Setting Up WordPress on Amazon EC2 in 5 minutes

  Christophe

  5 Jan 2012 | 2:45 pm

  Step 1: Create an AWS Account First things first: you need to create your AWS account. You can sign up here. You’ll have to provide a credit card and a phone number where you will be called as part of the online registration process for verification purposes. Amazon offers a Free Usage Tier, which is great to explore the services and even host real apps without being charged. Check the details here. Step 2: Create an Instance What type of EC2 instance should you use? I started my experiments with a Micro instance because its price structure is very attractive. However, after a few…

• Tutorial: HTML Templates with Mustache.js

  Christophe

  20 Dec 2011 | 9:53 am

  When developing modern HTML applications, you often write a lot of HTML fragments programmatically. You concatenate HTML tags and dynamic data, and insert the resulting UI markup into the DOM. Here is a random code example of this approach: $.each(messages.reverse(), function(index, message) { $('#messageList').append( '<li><span class="list-title">' + message.userName + '</span>' + '<abbr class="list-timestamp" title="' + message.datePosted + '"></abbr>' + '<p class="list-text">' + message.messageText +…

• Fact Check Michele Bachmann with Politifact and Flex

  Christophe

  16 Dec 2011 | 12:02 pm

  During the GOP presidential debate last night, Michelle Bachmann said this: After the debate that we had last week, Politifact came out and said that everything I said was true. Did Politifact really give her a “True” rating across the board for a performance in the previous debate? The best way to check if you are on the go, is to use Politifact’s mobile application which was built with Flex and runs on the iPhone, the iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook, the Kindle Fire, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and other Android devices… using the exact same code. 100% code reusability.

• Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring

  Christophe

  9 Dec 2011 | 11:27 am

  My Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring video (using the Spring BlazeDS Integration project) is available on Adobe TV. You can watch it here. The Flex Spring Mobile Test Drive is hosted on GitHub and documented here. Retweet this Share on Facebook Follow @ccoenraets !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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  leebrimelow.com

• Black Sun – kill Nazi zombies using Stage3D

  Lee Brimelow

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pm

  Minko is one of the lesser-known Stage3D frameworks but it is actually one of the most advanced. Developed in France by Aerys, Minko boasts some of the best technology for things like 3D model compression, dynamic lighting effects, and hardware-accelerated animations. Aerys has just launched a preview level of their first game built using the Minko engine. In Black Sun, you are tasked with killing not only zombies, but Nazi zombies. The game has amazing lighting effects and is only 9MB large because of the compression technology built into Minko. Check it out!

• Quick Tip: New Right-Click Mouse Event

  Lee Brimelow

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:23 pm

  In this quick tip I show you how to finally get rid of Flash’s right-click context menu once and for all! You can now listen to a right-click event and use it for a custom menu or for game play. Exciting stuff!

• New tutorial on using mouse lock with FP 11.2

  Lee Brimelow

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm

  Update: I just uploaded a new version of this tutorial that is much clearer and understandable. Empty your cache and check it out. I just uploaded a new tutorial that explains how to use the new mouse lock feature that is included in Flash Player 11.2. This feature allows you to create infinite mouse scrolling while in fullscreen mode, which is essential for things like first-person shooter games.

• New tutorial on Starling physics using Nape

  Lee Brimelow

  18 Jan 2012 | 2:07 pm

  I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows you how to integrate the Nape physics engine into your Starling projects. This library was recently updated, making it very easy to work with from Starling. Thanks to Dmitriy for his blog post that got me started in making this tutorial.

• Let us know about your Stage3D or mobile games!

  Lee Brimelow

  16 Jan 2012 | 1:18 am

  There are so many great Flash games being developed right now that it is difficult to keep track of them all. I want to put together a list of all of the current AIR-based mobile games and also games being developed with Stage3D. If you aren’t quite done with your game that is OK and I would still love to hear about it. Please pass on this blog post to anyone you know who is working with these technologies. Adobe is always looking to showcase great games built with Flash and we would love to promote them. Please fill out the form below and thanks!

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  Recent Flex content

• Game of Flex on tablets

  16 Jan 2012 | 2:27 pm

  Play this learning game to discover the new features and components in Flex 4.6.

• Expense tracker application

  30 Nov 2011 | 3:24 pm

  The expense tracker is an example of how to design and build CRUD based applications as a component of a larger expense application as both a mobile app and a web application.

• Sales dashboard application

  30 Nov 2011 | 3:19 pm

  The sales dashboard illustrates how to design and build a data visualization application as both a mobile app and a web application through a shared codebase.

• Shopping cart application

  30 Nov 2011 | 3:14 pm

  The shopping cart application includes both a web application and a mobile application and shows best practices for sharing model and data access code between both versions.

• Flex mobile performance checklist

  30 Nov 2011 | 1:40 pm

  Learn best practices for improving the performance of Flex mobile applications.

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  ScottGu's Blog

• Getting Started with Windows Azure

  ScottGu

  19 Jan 2012 | 8:24 pm

  This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform. In today’s post I’m going to cover how to sign-up and get started with Windows Azure using a no-obligation 3 month free trial offer.  This free trial costs nothing and doesn’t obligate you to buy anything at the end of it.  It provides an easy way to try out and get started with Windows Azure. Windows Azure Website The http://www.windowsazure.com web-site provides everything you need to get started with Windows Azure – including overview content,…

• Windows Azure

  ScottGu

  16 Jan 2012 | 12:35 am

  As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to run the teams that build ASP.NET, core pieces of .NET and VS, and a bunch of other products too). I’m pretty excited about where we are going with Windows Azure – it is going to enable a number of great new scenarios for developers.  Over the next few months I’m going to be blogging a lot more about it – and I’ll cover both what it provides as well as how you can easily take advantage of it as developers.

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

  ScottGu

  11 Jan 2012 | 11:08 pm

  Jan 16th Update: An audio recording of my talk can be listened to here. This coming Monday (Jan 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 is fair game: technical, strategy, community, college basketball, etc. You can learn more and…

• ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th

  ScottGu

  28 Dec 2011 | 10:59 pm

  A few minutes ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address an ASP.NET Security Vulnerability. Dec 29th Update: the security update (MS11-100) has now shipped and is available to install via Windows Update, the Windows Server Update Service and as a download from the Microsoft Download Center. The security update we are releasing resolves a publicly disclosed Denial of Service issue present in all versions of ASP.NET.  We’re currently unaware of any attacks on ASP.NET customers using this…

• Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th)

  ScottGu

  7 Dec 2011 | 4:29 pm

  As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to work on ASP.NET, .NET, VS and a bunch of other products). Next Tuesday, Dec 13th we’ll be holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers.  It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides.  You can attend the event either by watching it streamed LIVE online, or by attending in person (on the Microsoft Redmond Campus).  Both options are completely free. Learn Window…

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  Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

• Amazon Kindle Fire: Return to sender

  Tim Heuer

  3 Jan 2012 | 12:10 pm

  I wanted to believe, I really did.  It has been over a month since my first impressions of the Amazon Kindle Fire.  Over the holidays, I processed a return for my Kindle Fire.  When the Fire was announced I was intrigued and excited as I thought that Amazon had the real potential to make a great product and the customer base to capitalize on that potential.  For me, it just didn’t live up to the hype.  I’ll stress that last sentence…this is my opinion based on my experiences/desires.  As with anything in life, your mileage may vary. So what went wrong? I used the Fire a lot.  I…

• Portable tools rock–my current favorites and a great tool

  Tim Heuer

  12 Dec 2011 | 11:51 pm

  Lately I’ve been doing a lot of re-paving of machines and I never had my favorite tools on them, nor did I want to spend the time to re-install a set of tools that I knew I would blow away each day anyway.  Mostly my daily builds have been to do some scenario validation and is quite repetitive.  However there are times where a stable build combination comes along that I keep for a while to work on customer apps or sample development.  When these times happen I find myself needing my helpful little utilities more frequently. Recently I’ve been trying to learn Git, a version control…

• Code signing for the independent developer

  Tim Heuer

  12 Dec 2011 | 7:01 pm

  One of the features introduced with Silverlight 4 was the out-of-browser feature, enabling you to create an application that can be installed, run offline, automatically updated, etc.  As a part of that feature, some of the major code signing certificate vendors (for Authenticode certs) provided our team with test certificates so that we could go through the same process as a developer would to acquire the cert and apply it to an app…and, of course, validate it works. During that time some of those vendors had promotional codes for the first year for Silverlight developers, providing…

• Silverlight 5 Released with awesome samples in the Silverlight Toolkit

  Tim Heuer

  12 Dec 2011 | 5:27 pm

  Silverlight 5 is finally released!  Congratulations to the team for getting through some of the toughest parts of finishing a product and validating with customers.  It’s been a pretty crazy year for the Silverlight team and this is a really good release for the product bringing some solid features to the platform for folks to leverage in building their apps. In addition to the platform having a release, I was really pleased to see an update to the Silverlight Toolkit, which has been one of the most popular things almost every Silverlight developer/application uses.  If you didn’t know…

• The joy of running daily builds

  Tim Heuer

  8 Dec 2011 | 4:01 pm

  It seems like a daily question I’ve been answering lately when working on internal email discussion groups and folks report an issue, my initial response is: what build combination are you working on?  As a part of my job, I like to ensure the fastest resolution (or awareness depending on how you look at it) to issues that affect our product.  This involves staying on top of ‘latest bits’ as we call them.  Every morning I come in and install the latest Windows build as well as the latest Visual Studio build.  We have an automated Hyper-V environment that makes it easy to get the…

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  Jim Weaver’s Rich-Client Java Blog

• ZenPongFX Example from the Pro JavaFX 2 Platform Book

  Jim Weaver

  16 Jan 2012 | 12:03 pm

  My co-authors (Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, Johan Vos, tech reviewer Carl Dea) and I are pleased to report that the Pro JavaFX 2 Platform book is on track to ship by 15 February, 2012. To give you a sample from the book, I've placed the source code for the ZenPongFX application from Chapter 2 in the ZenPongFX Home Page.  That page also contains a Java Web Start link to the application.  Enjoy!Jim Weaver

• Adding a Tag Cloud to ConferenceBrowserFX

  Jim Weaver

  8 Jan 2012 | 11:09 pm

  ConferenceBrowserFX, featured in an earlier blog post, is an application that leverages a REST API common to Devoxx and Jfokus.  Its purpose is to provide a UI that enables the user to quickly find sessions of interest. As shown in the screen shot above, I've added a tag cloud to the application, so if you have a Windows machine (hopefully a very temporary restriction) please navigate to ConferenceBrowserFX.com and try it out via the Java Web Start link. Regards,Jim Weaver

• JavaFX 2.0 Mentoring with Jim Weaver

  Jim Weaver

  28 Dec 2011 | 12:25 pm

  Lately I've been receiving requests for JavaFX 2.0 mentoring, and am happy to announce that I'm now providing mentoring and training services. Please contact me at jim.weaver @ javafxpert.com if you'd like to schedule a JavaFX mentoring session.  My rates are currently 1500 USD per day (plus travel & lodging).  You can avoid the travel & lodging fees by coming to the Indianapolis area for your JavaFX mentoring session. I look forward to helping you get up to speed on JavaFX!  Regards,Jim Weaver  Featured Testimonial: "My mentoring session with Jim Weaver was consultative,…

• ConferenceBrowserFX: View the Jfokus 2012 schedule with this JavaFX 2.0 app

  Jim Weaver

  23 Dec 2011 | 3:14 pm

  Fellow Java Champion and Jfokus conference organizer Mattias Karlsson inquired whether a conference schedule app written in JavaFX exists.  There are actually two: One of these Arun Gupta and Stephen Chin have developed as an example end-to-end application in conjunction with Glassfish.  The other one, ConferenceBrowserFX, is featured in this blog post.  This application leverages a REST API common to Devoxx and Jfokus to provide a UI that enables the user to quickly find sessions of interest.  I'd appreciate any input that you have on the application, so if you have a Windows machine…

• Java Spotlight Episode 61: Jim Weaver, Java Champion, on Java FX 2.0

  Jim Weaver

  20 Dec 2011 | 6:54 am

  I was recently interviewed by Roger Brinkley for the Java Spotlight Episode 61 podcast.  The topic of the interview was JavaFX 2.0, and I hope you enjoy it. Regards,Jim Weaver

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  Confessions of an Flash Addict

• 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.

• ‘Confessions of an Flash Addict’ is on Google Currents!

  Sidney de Koning

  12 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am

  Google Currents, a new news feed organizer service ala Flipboard just released it’s ‘producer’ module. This allows you to author your content in their format. Currents is available for iPad, iPhone, Android and a standard tablet version. I think this this app is currently the most beautiful app that organizes your feeds and rearranges them in a very logical way. As from now we can be found in it’s directory as a feed. More information about that can be found on the publishers page. See Currents in action, then download it and install my feed And tell me what you think,…

• Fixing not so standard Ant errors in FDT

  Sidney de Koning

  9 Jan 2012 | 6:26 am

  For this project i’m doing i needed to generate 10 different/unique class files and then compile 10 SWF’s files with those class files. Ant is perfect candidate for this. The real test is deploying your solution to the different members of your team. Here are some Ant issues i ran into. Most of them have to do with different versions of FDT Eclipse combo’s. The use of <fdt.loadProjectProperties /> throws an error. Solution: use loadProjectProperties with the projectname parameter; <fdt.loadProjectProperties projectname=”Name of the project” />. Note:…

• Adding an webbrowser to FDT / Eclipse on Mac OSX

  Sidney de Koning

  2 Jan 2012 | 6:20 am

  Just found a little bug/issue in Eclipse. Turns out that if you want to add an Web browser you have to perform a little trickery. I found this out by opening the default browser value to see if I was doing something wrong. If you want to add Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Brand X browser to Eclipse you would normally press the ‘New’ button and add a new browser in the Web browser preferences. However if you are on a Mac the normal install path does not work (Selecting the /Applications/My App.app ), you need to append “/Contents/MacOS/My App” to the file path name. This value…

• I’ve got a present for you!

  Sidney de Koning

  1 Dec 2011 | 5:22 am

  Have you already read ‘Automating Actionscript Projects’? You should. It’s about making your coding life for AS3 easier. And faster. And build systems. And compiling for mobile devices. And a whole bunch more! Read it so you have more time to spend with your family and less at work during the holiday season If you haven’t read it, I have some discount codes to give away. If you order via the O’Reilly online store you get 40% off the print version and 50%off the digital version! Its my gift to you. While you do the checkout use the code ‘AUTHD‘ to get…

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  James Ward

• Java on Heroku at CinJUG, Detroit JUG, and MongoDB Boulder

  James Ward

  25 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pm

  Over the next few days I’ll be presenting about Java, Play Framework, and Scala on Heroku at a couple Java User Groups and a MongoDB conference: Cincinnati JUG on January 26th Detroit JUG on January 31st MongoDB Boulder on Febuary 1st Hope to see you there!

• Tutorial & Screencast: Java on Heroku with Eclipse

  James Ward

  24 Jan 2012 | 12:16 pm

  I recorded a screencast and put together some instructions on how to try out Java on Heroku using just a web browser and Eclipse. First, check out the screencast: Here are steps you can follow to get started running Java on Heroku with Eclipse and your browser: Prerequisites) Install the EGit and Maven (m2e) Eclipse plugins into your Eclipse. In Eclipse select the “Help” menu, select “Install new Software”, from the “Work With” drop-down menu select “All Available Sites”, and enter “EGit” in the filter box. After the plugin list has…

• Just Released the S3Blobs Play Framework Module for Amazon S3

  James Ward

  23 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm

  I’ve just posted the first release of the S3Blobs Play Framework Module. This module makes it easy to upload and download files from Amazon S3 from a JPA entity in a Play Framework Java application. This module is based on a POC that I did a few months ago, the JPA stuff from Tim Kral, and the modularization done by Roderik van der Veer. For more details on how to use the module check out the documentation, my tutorial (slightly out of date now), and the source code. This makes it really easy to save file uploads to an external system when running Play! apps on Heroku. Let me know if…

• Java, Play! & Scala on Heroku – This Week in San Diego, Mountain View, and Albany

  James Ward

  16 Jan 2012 | 5:30 pm

  This week I’ll presenting at three Java User Groups about Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud: San Diego Java User’s Group on Tuesday, January 17th Silicon Valley Web JUG on Wednesday, January 18th The Capital District Java Developers Network on Thursday January 19th Hope to see you there!

• Heroku JUG Tour: Boulder, Phoenix, & Portland

  James Ward

  12 Dec 2011 | 2:38 pm

  For the next wave of the Heroku Java User Group Tour I will be speaking about running Java, Play Framework, and Scala apps on the cloud in these three wonderful places: Boulder, Colorado – December 13 Phoenix, Arizona – December 14 Portland, Oregon – December 20 I hope to see you there!

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  The Dojo Toolkit Blog

• Looking for DojoConf in Europe? Try Web-5 in April!

  Dylan Schiemann

  5 Jan 2012 | 10:53 am

  The very successful and inspiring DojoConf in DC last September has led many to ask us when there will be a DojoConf EU? While we have no immediate plans, active Dojo user “PEM” of the Web-5 Association is organizing Web-5 in Béziers, France in early April. In addition to 6 excellent Dojo talks, the conference will also include more general talks on HTML5, Mobile Web, Node.js, WebGL, performance, and general JavaScript and web application development topics. Early registration is now open with a 33% discount available for the first batch of sign-ups. We hope to see you in…

• Dojo 1.7.1 is Released!

  Dylan Schiemann

  15 Dec 2011 | 10:46 am

  We’re happy to announce Dojo 1.7.1 is now available for download. Review the list of issues resolved in this release. Please report any new issues you find in your testing with your Dojo Foundation account. Links to CDN, and an updated reference guide, web site, and tutorials for 1.7 will be available soon. And special thanks to Colin Snover and Ken Franqueiro for managing this release!

• Dojo 1.7.1 Release Candidate 1

  Dylan Schiemann

  9 Dec 2011 | 8:21 am

  We’re happy to announce Dojo 1.7.1rc1 is now available for download. Review the list of issues resolved in this release. Please report any new issues you find in your testing with your Dojo Foundation account. The plan is to release on Monday, December 12th, unless any major issues are found between now and then.

• Learn more about AMD!

  Dylan Schiemann

  7 Dec 2011 | 8:50 am

  If you’ve been reading about Dojo 1.7, the first thing you’re probably wondering is, what is this AMD thing that everyone is talking about? We have a great tutorial update in the works, and some in progress AMD docs. If you’re first learning about AMD, here are a few presentations and resources that are particularly useful: Modular JavaScript by Brian Cavalier and Bryan Forbes Dojo 1.7 and 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development by Dylan Schiemann Moving to Dojo 1.7 and the path to 2.0 by James Thomas AMD Module Patterns by John Hann What is the fastest way…

• Dojo 1.7 Released!

  Dylan Schiemann

  1 Dec 2011 | 8:14 am

  Dojo 1.7 is now available and ready for your web app. The second major release towards our plans for 2.0, we’ve undergone substantial improvements while preserving existing APIs and capabilities. The Dojo community has come together to dramatically improve the performance and modularity of the toolkit, a popular theme in the world of AMD (asynchronous module definition), JavaScript loaders, and microtoolkits. Dojo Nano: Less than 4KB gzipped! Dojo 1.7 provides substantial improvements for building desktop and mobile apps using open web technologies. In addition to a wide variety of…

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  Sencha Blog

• How to Embed Interactive CSS3 Animations in an iBook

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm

  Click through to see a video of Sencha Animator animations playing in an Apple iBook. Like everybody else on the US west coast, this morning we woke up in a world where Apple is poised to transform the way we consume textbooks. One of the compelling features of this new and exciting medium is the ability to easily publish interactive books through iBook Author. iBook Author lets you embed interactive content in your books to create more engaging experiences for learners, and our first thought here at the Sencha HQ was to try using Sencha Animator to create that interactive content. So after a…

• First Thoughts Learning Ext JS 4.1

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm

  I wanted to share my thoughts on my progress learning Ext JS 4.1 as a developer new to Sencha. As an application developer I have used many different development environments and application frameworks throughout my career and whenever I learn something new I compare back to my experience. Overall I have been very impressed with Sencha frameworks as they provide a professional foundation to build an application atop. Interpreted The single hardest shift for me is embracing the interpreted nature of JavaScript within the Ext JS framework in general. While not new to interpreted systems, I…

• Sencha Animator 1.1 Now Available

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  We are excited to announce that the first minor release update for Sencha Animator is now available. In addition to general bug fixes, we’re happy to introduce a few new features and improvements to make working with Animator easier and more productive. Experimental support for Firefox 7+ Firefox recently introduced support for CSS animations, and we wanted to give our users access to animation on newer Firefox browsers. Animator now exports -moz as well as -webkit animations. If your customers use Firefox 7 and above, they can take advantage of this new Animator capability. Sencha…

• Sencha: The 2012 HTML5 Wishlist

  9 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am

  It’s that time of year, and we’re once again publishing our HTML5 wishlist. But before we do that, let’s see how our 2011 wishes went. On balance, we didn’t do so bad. Out of our ten wishes, four came through. Here are the HTML5 wishes that became reality in 2011. We wished for: A richer CSS3 effects toolbox; and lo there was CSS Filters, a port of the sophisticated filters available in SVG to the DOM. High performance position: fixed for mobile browsers; and we were granted it in iOS 5’s Mobile Safari. Now we’re waiting for other devices to catch up.

• Sencha Touch Spotlight: Nanocrowd

  19 Dec 2011 | 10:00 am

  The new Nanocrowd app helps you find great movies to watch instantly on your iPad. View the Nanocrowd app in the App Gallery Nanocrowd develops technology that understands why people like things. Our first use of this technology is helping people find movies they’ll enjoy. By knowing why people like things, we can make the process of finding movies faster, easier, and more fun. These are wild times to be in the movie business, and we have to remain flexible, moving quickly to new platforms. For example, with over 40 million iPads sold (and half of them being used to stream movies and…

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  aralbalkan.com

• New blog on web development

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am

  I just released a new blog called What, Where, Why?, focused specifically on web development, the Internets, and other related geekery. There are already a number of posts on the site, including one titled Octopress in the Cloud explaining the technologies I used on the blog (which include Octopress, Amazon S3, CloudFront, and Route 53) and my latest post on two tools two help you develop responsive designs. Hope you enjoy it! I will be releasing a few other subject-area blogs in the coming days and this blog will continue as a place for general news, and updates on what I'm doing. Check out…

• New: Native iOS development workshop in Brighton, Feb 22-24th

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:49 am

  I'm teaching my highly-acclaimed Native iOS development workshop in Brighton (UK) next month, from the 22nd-24th of February. The course will give you strong foundations in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch to give you a solid start to building your own iOS apps in just three days. You will be using the latest iOS SDK (iOS 5) and the latest Xcode (4.2). Tickets are £999+VAT for the three days. If you're a freelancer or a one-person company, use the code IAMAFREELANCER to get 20% off that price. Find out more information and reserve your seat today as there are only 12 spots open on the course.

• SOPA is bad news, and concerns us all

  18 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am

  You may have heard of two bills that are floating around the US Congress and Senate that go by the common monikers SOPA and PIPA. They're both very bad news and they will affect us all–Americans and otherwise–if they pass. That is why this blog is blacked out in protest today. You may also have heard that SOPA has been killed. It hasn't. It has merely been shelved, most likely until February. It does, however, need to be killed and it–and similar bills in the future that are supported by the dinosaurs of our age, the old-school publishing companies, the BSA, RIAA, MPAA. And, if you need…

• Flickr Photos

  4 Jan 2012 | 3:39 pm

  As I mentioned earlier, I'm shutting down my Yahoo! account following Yahoo!'s hiring of the president of PayPal as its CEO. So I used the Flickr to WP plugin to migrate my photos here. They're presented here using the Lightbox Gallery plugin and the gallery short-code. Flickr Sets Geek Ninja Battle Night photos (2011) Head conference studio setup (2008) FITC 2007 Pups in cars (yeah it's a bit random) Unpacking the Apple TV And here are some miscellaneous photos that were not in any sets:

• It’s your data, but what about the URLs? #myData #myURLs

  4 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm

  Gone is the initial love affair I had with the web. Those early days when I believed that Google actually could do no evil and when the web was an open frontier of boundless potential built by those who naively and bravely toiled to further the plight of humanity are in the past. Replaced, are they, by the grey (OK, pastel) reality of commercial silos that grant users varying degrees of access to their own data while trying to gleam as much information about them as they can to sell to their advertisers and other interested third parties. And what freedoms remain are under grave threat from…

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  RIAGENIC.com

• Minecraft + Frustration + GeekFame + NotFinsihingWhatYouStarted = Angry Squarhead.

  Scott Barnes

  5 Jan 2012 | 2:15 am

  I’m a massive fan lately of minecraft, it’s quite an addictive game (even has my 8yr son hooked on its crack). It’s a game made by a swede named “Notch” who basically by all accounts slapped the game together during some off time he had. The game now has millions of subscribers all paying their once-off fee to buy and the part that really threw me for a loop was he made it in Java…. Oh Java, how I often reflect on your greatness (pre-Microsoft that was my drug of choice). So what’s the overall problem? Let me vent a little. Apparently Notch is caught up in both his new found…

• The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011

  Scott Barnes

  3 Jan 2012 | 7:53 pm

  The calendar increments by 1 year now and as it does I think about the last year and ponder what I liked and disliked in my sandbox that I call the Microsoft ethos Windows Phone 7 I liked Nokias approach to branding the product; they really took what they saw and made it the focal point of what the experience for consumers should be. That is, they did what I asked at the start of the year; make the metro design your familiar face in the crowd. I liked the WP7 Design contest; I rarely ever give an endorsement to contests as they are a desperate response to bad marketing, in this case though…

• Metro: Typography trumps chrome–debunked.

  Scott Barnes

  20 Dec 2011 | 9:20 pm

  Metro, is fast becoming this unclear, messy craptuclar retardation of modern interface design. In that, the current execution out there is getting out of control resulting in what originally started out as a Microsofts plagiarized edition of Dieter Rams “Ten Principles of Good Design” into what we have before us today. I am actually ok with that, as if I ever looked back on the first year of my designs in the 90s I’d cringe at the sight of lots of Alienskin Bevels, Glows and Fire plugin driven pixel vomit. The part though I’m a little nervous about is how fast the microsoftees of the…

• Silverlight huh, bit of a …hot topic..wouldn’t you say?

  Scott Barnes

  12 Dec 2011 | 4:40 pm

  So.. I did a bit of a video post on it; I think it was a balanced on what my thoughts where around how the current release was dumped in what West Wing used to call “Take out the Trash Day” It still leaves you wondering though, so what is it you are missing from this entire Silverlight story as surely by now you’ve read enough rants and blog posts that centre around the notion “..but you’re a .NET developer man…pull yourself together, you have skills, you have knowledge now get back out there and make something of this Windows 8 way of life…and don’t do it for me, don’t do…

• Windows 8 –Trust me, we got this covered this time I promise…

  Scott Barnes

  7 Dec 2011 | 4:47 pm

  Yesterday the VP of Web Services at Microsoft showed us the upcoming future of Microsoft AppStore me to thanks for playing Apple iTunes clone but not quite because its metro style of solution delivery….*gasp*… (try saying that without pausing) Side riff: Microsoft, try and pick one person to be the face of Windows.. I get VP’s want to be geek celebs, but really who is that guy anyway and why should we care about his existence?..sorry carry on reading… I care less on who copied what and where, the fact that there is an AppStore in the Microsoft ethos for us WPF/SL developers to…

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  Silverlight Cream

• 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…

• Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 - 2 - #0017

  Dave Campbell

  26 Dec 2011 | 9:28 pm

  My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews

• Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 - #0016

  Dave Campbell

  26 Dec 2011 | 11:15 am

  My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews

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  Microsoft Silverlight content

• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #4 Hub & Spoke Navigation Model

  Microsoft Weblogs

  22 Jan 2012 | 10:46 pm

  31 Weeks of Windows Phone Design Index Introduction Today we begin our preparation to get ourselves ready to define the Information Architecture (IA) for our app. We will discuss Information Architecture more in depth in a future (not too far away post...(read more)

• Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

  Microsoft Weblogs

  18 Jan 2012 | 9:43 am

  by Andrea Boschin There is not any doubt, the first thing you meet when you use Windows Phone are the tiles. These are the large squares on the home screen that identifies some applications and they are also a distinguishable character that make your...(read more)

• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept

  Microsoft Weblogs

  15 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm

  31 Weeks of Windows Phone Design Index In the previous post, The Design Process of a Windows Phone App, we discussed the importance of defining a theme for your Windows Phone application. The ideation stage helps you refine your theme and generate ideas...(read more)

• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 1: An overview of the Windows 8 platform

  Microsoft Weblogs

  12 Jan 2012 | 11:02 am

  by Gill Cleeren Introduction to the series Welcome to this first part of a whole series on Windows 8 articles, which I’ll be writing over the coming weeks and months. It’s my goal in this series to introduce you to what we know at this point about Windows...(read more)

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012

  Microsoft Weblogs

  11 Jan 2012 | 7:02 pm

  The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML , WPF , Silverlight , Visual C++ , XNA , Expression Blend , Surface , Windows 7 , Windows Phone , Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services...(read more)

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  Oracle Bloggers

• JavaFX 2.0 is Cross Platform!

  javafx4you

  23 Jan 2012 | 4:51 pm

  When we released the JavaFX 2.0 Beta at the end of May, there was an uproar from the Mac and Linux communities complaining that the software was only available on Windows. Developers were very vocal about the fact they would not touch JavaFX until this was remediated. Today, the JavaFX Team is very pleased to announce the availability of the JavaFX 2.1 Developer Preview for Linux, which you can download here. The JavaFX Developer Preview for Linux has currently been tested against Ubuntu 10.04 / JDK 7u2 but is expected to be supported on other Linux distributions the Oracle Java SE…

• Java Spotlight Episode 65: Deployment & Plugin

  Roger Brinkley

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:34 am

  Interview with Joe McGlynn, Thomas Ng, and Henry James of the Deployment and Plugin Team about the recent changes in Deployment and Plugin. Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate. Right-click or Control-click to download this MP3 file. You can also subscribe to the Java Spotlight Podcast Feed to get the latest podcast automatically. If you use iTunes you can open iTunes and subscribe with this link: Java Spotlight Podcast in iTunes.

• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13

  Bob Rhubart

  13 Jan 2012 | 1:09 am

  Today's Quote "Fridays are not pants-optional." -- Bart Simpson Today's Links Webcast: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture and Oracle Exadata event.on24.com Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012 Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET Speaker: Joe Meeks, Director of Product Management, Oracle Demand for cloud jobs is now stratospheric | David Linthicum www.infoworld.com The small pool of experienced cloud talent will pose a challenge to employers and opportunity to IT pros. ConferenceBrowserFX: View the Jfokus 2012 schedule with this JavaFX 2.0 app | Jim Weaver learnjavafx.typepad.com Check…

• JavaFX 2.0.2 supports interoperability with the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)

  NancyH

  22 Dec 2011 | 1:50 pm

  JavaFX 2.0.2 includes support for SWT! Eclipse and Eclipse RCP developers can now mix and match SWT and JavaFX, which means that SWT developers can now access the advanced graphics capability provided by JavaFX. SWT and JavaFX share the same apartment threading model seamlessly, so applications just work. The two toolkits can call each other directly, cooperating to show data to the user. I see an interesting future where SWT is used for the native trimming, task bar, alert boxes and other aspects of deep integration, while JavaFX is used to display advanced content. You can see the API…

• Java Spotlight Episode 61: Jim Weaver, Java Champion, on Java FX 2.0

  Roger Brinkley

  19 Dec 2011 | 4:45 pm

  Interview with Jim Weaver, Java Champion, on JavaFX 2.0. Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate. Right-click or Control-click to download this MP3 file. You can also subscribe to the Java Spotlight Podcast Feed to get the latest podcast automatically. If you use iTunes you can open iTunes and subscribe with this link: Java Spotlight Podcast in iTunes.

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  Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

• Download Flash player 11.2 beta 4

  Designscripting

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:01 pm

  Flash Player 11.2 beta 4 is now available for download. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 drives innovation for rich, engaging digital experiences with new features for cross-platform browser-based viewing of expressive rich internet applications, content, and videos across devices.   Check your flash player version New in Flash Player 11.2: multi-threaded video decoding and Flash Player background updates. Learn More About Flash Player 11.2 beta 4 Download Flash Player 11.2 beta 4 Related posts:Download Adobe AIR 3.2 Beta and Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Beta Download Flash Player 11.2 Beta 3 update…

• Stage3D with Apache Flex! Full source code included.

  Flash Daily

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:16 am

  Stage3D with Apache Flex! Full source code included.

• Enterprise Development: Flex or HTML5?

  FlexBlog

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:31 am

  This article is a transcript from a recorded conversation I had with Anatole Tartakovsky and Victor Rasputnis – my business partners at Farata Systems. This conversation took place on the mountain after the day of skiing. Yakov. There are many ways of creating Web applications and creating them for the enterprises is not the same as [...]

• Two great books to study JavaScript

  Flex Force

  26 Jan 2012 | 10:31 pm

  Since I've been concentrating mostly on Flex development since 2004 and have been getting back to JavaScript development in the last year, I thought it would be a good idea to get a couple of books to refresh my skills. Thus I've listed below two books which I've picked up recently to this effect:JavaScript PatternsHigh Performance JavaScriptI've just started reading the second book and I must say both books are well written and are worth the dollars I spent. Both are for intermediate to advanced level and you sure do learn some little nuances of the language that go the

• Adobe Flash Player 11.2 beta 4 Now Available

  Adobe Labs

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pm

  Adobe Flash Player 11.2 beta 4 is now available for download. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 drives innovation for rich, engaging digital experiences with new features for cross-platform browser-based viewing of expressive rich internet applications, content, and videos across devices. New in Flash Player 11.2: multi-threaded video decoding and Flash Player background updates. Learn More About [...]

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  Latest Adobe News by Smart Category

• Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring

  Christophe Coenraets

  2 Jan 2012 | 10:14 pm

  My Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring video (using the Spring BlazeDS Integration project) is available on Adobe TV. You can watch it here. The Flex Spring Mobile Test Drive is hosted on GitHub and documented here. Retweet this Share on Facebook Follow @ccoenraets !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

• A war story, a Kindle Single, and hope for long-form journalism

  O'Reilly Radar

  15 Dec 2011 | 8:38 am

  Instead of walking his latest long-form story door to door, freelance journalist Marc Herman decided to blaze his own trail &mdash; he published the story as a Kindle Single. In this interview he talks about the Kindle Single experience and offers his take on the future of journalism.

• LiveCycle Data Services for Java EE 4.6 now available

  LiveCycle Product

  12 Dec 2011 | 4:15 pm

  Here’s another announcement! LiveCycle Data Services version 4.6 is now generally available. It is the latest update to the JEE or LiveCycle version of Data Services and it is a feature-rich major release, including expanded support for mobile applications (HTML5/JavaScript, … Continue reading →

• An Update on Flex

  Official Adobe Flex Team Blog

  9 Dec 2011 | 8:15 pm

  I wanted to share a brief update on where we are with our preparation of proposals for incubation of Flex SDK and BlazeDS to the Apache Software Foundation as well as our commitment to engaging with the Flex community further. Regarding the incubation proposals, we have received all of the necessary Adobe legal clearance in [...]

• Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring

  Christophe Coenraets

  9 Dec 2011 | 12:14 pm

  My Mobile Development with Flex 4.6 and Spring video (using the Spring BlazeDS Integration project) is available on Adobe TV. You can watch it here. The Flex Spring Mobile Test Drive is hosted on GitHub and documented here.

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  Think Vitamin

• Free Video: iOS Tab bar (UITabBarController)

  Amit Bijlani

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:55 pm

  In this 7 minute video, you will learn the basics of the UITabBarController and how to create one using the Xcode project template. This video is from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos on topics like … Accessibility CSS3 Aesthetic Foundations Django HTML CSS HTML5 iOS Development JavaScript jQuery NoSQL PHP Responsive Web Design Ruby Ruby on Rails UX Version Control WordPress Theme Design New videos are added regularly, so it’s a great way to stay up-to-date on all the latest technology and methods. Browse the entire library of videos.

• Twitter Bootstrap 2.0

  Jason Seifer

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 will be coming out January 31st. In the mean time, there is a pre-release you can check out and report on any bugs that you find. Twitter Bootstrap is a great HTML and CSS framework that has been gaining a lot of popularity recently. You can check out sites built with bootstrap on the unofficial Built With Bootstrap tumblr. You can also follow @twbootstrap on Twitter. Here’s some of what’s new in this release: Responsive layout (!) with media queries. New 12 column grid (the old one was 16 columns). Stacked forms are the default. Split button dropdowns. New…

• A New Year, A New Responsive Dribbble Portfolio – Part 1 of 2

  Mat Helme

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  What better way to start off the new year than a fresh new Dribbble portfolio?  If you are a designer with minimal coding experience and want to display your Dribbble work in all browser sizes, you have come to the right place.  We will be creating a HTML5 one page portfolio which pulls your Dribbble information and is responsive in all browsers.  This little project will be presented in two parts. Part 1 (this post): HTML/CSS/jQuery set up. Part 2 (coming soon): Convert HTML to PHP and use the Dribbble API to pull your data. Plus IE fixes. The File Structure Let’s dig right in and start…

• Scrolling Made Fun

  Mat Helme

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm

  Just when you thought scrolling your web page was getting boring. Scrollorama has stepped the scroll game up with this remarkable jQuery Plugin. Scrollorama allows you to manipulate text when you scroll the page. You can do everything from Transitions to Zoom to Parallax. Check out the Scrollorama site to view some great examples and the plugin’s documentation. This Plugin is great for landing pages and highly interactive web applications. Like CSS3 transitions, use your animations sparingly.

• Our new Treehouse Student Plan is live!

  Ryan Carson

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:58 am

  We’ve just released our new Treehouse Student plan and it’s only $9 per month! It’s the equivalent to our Gold plan, which is $49 per month, so you’re saving a massive 82%. Anyone who attends a school, college or university is eligible. After you sign up, we’ll ask you to provide proof of your student program. Benefits include: Unlimited access to our Video Course Library. 450+ videos, more added each week on topics like CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, iOS, Photoshop and more. All videos downloadable for offline viewing. Unlock Badges to prove your knowledge. Complete…

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  Curl Global Community - All Forums

• ListModelに定義されているリストの一部を検索させたい

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:52 am

  ListModelクラスのfindメソッドでは、設定したリストを検索すると思いますが、 このリストのうち文字列の一部で検索する方法はありますか？ 下記コードで登録してあるリストのうち、「02DEF」を、「2D」のキーワードで 検索させ、２番目のリストを表示させたいのですが、このコードでは検索できません。 Code: {let list-of-states:DefaultListModel =     {DefaultListModel         "01ABC", "02DEF", "03GHI"     } }…

• Curl RTEをコマンドからアンインストールする方法について

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:27 pm

  こんにちは。 Curl　RTE をコマンドでアンインストールする方法をご存知でしたら、 ご教授お願い致します。 ※OSはWindows XPを想定しております。 宜しくお願い致します。

• ローカルデータの取得について

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pm

  ローカルのjsonファイルを読み、その内容を表示するとき、モバイル実機にもjsonファイルを転送し そのファイルを変更するだけで内容を差し替えたいのですが、caedeで作成してデプロイすると 結果が埋め込まれた状態になるので、これをローカルのjsonファイルから読むように したいのですが可能でしょうか？urlではローカルファイルになってますが、これをイントラネットの URLに変更したいと考えてます。 test.json { "id":123, "name":"てすと",…

• たまに。。「このアプレットをロード中にエラーが発生しました。」が発生します。

  23 Jan 2012 | 11:49 pm

  本当にたまになんですが、、、 <エラー> - このアプレットをロード中にエラーが発生しました。 SyntaxError: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/load.scurl:123[1]: 'HttpException: 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/test.scurl' への送信に失敗しました： サーバーとの接続がリセットされました。 (12031)。' が原因で、'./test.scurl'を読み取ることができません というエラーが発生することがあります。 OSはWindows7(32bit)です。 Curl 7.0で動作中です。…

• Kindle PC application

  22 Jan 2012 | 2:33 pm

  I have just used the Kindle browser reader for an e-book purchased from Amazon. I have just one word: terrible. The text layout was a bad as the early efforts of Adobe and of the ABIWord word processing software. Why would we leave this domain to Amazon, Apple and Google - at least in China, India, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, the Arab world and large parts of Africa ? The current Kindle PC Windows application, 1.8.3, cannot properly format simple footnotes on text-only pages (footnotes are not common in the novels commonly sold for Kindle?) Yes, Curl cannot yet do "ruby" text and we…

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  code zen

• 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…

• Location Check-Ins are the new Photos

  arpit

  12 Jan 2012 | 6:53 pm

  Off late I have started using quite a few location based services like Foursquare, Foodspotting etc, and everyday more interesting apps crop up. However the current model for location based apps requires me to check into each app individually. The problem is when I am at someplace interesting enough to check in to, I am usually with people and I can only take so much time peering into my phone before coming across as rude to the rest of the group. Compare this with how I interact with photos today. I take a pic and then can choose among any number of apps on your device that can do…

• The prettier side of Android

  arpit

  27 Dec 2011 | 1:49 pm

  A lot has been said about the lack of UI polish in Android (sometimes rather obnoxiously), but over the last few months I have started debating how much of that is still relevant. When I first saw Android (around version 1.6) I was not a fan, but over the last couple of years having it as my primary mobile phone, I realize that while a lot of the applications lack UI polish, there are a lot of parts of Android that can be customized with very beautiful options. Most of the time these seem to be the work of communities of passionate developers and designers and often lacks mainstream…

• Thoughts on inter-app communication and Siri-izing Android apps

  arpit

  6 Nov 2011 | 10:42 pm

  Coming from developing iOS applications, the concept that struck me most interesting in Android app development was the way it handled inter-app communications. For the uninitiated, here is a simple way to understand how Android apps work: Each Android app is composed of a few different parts: Activities, Services, ContentProviders and BroadcastRecievers An Activity represents a single screen with a user interface. They usually constitute one complete “action”, like signing up or updating a status or something like that. Users transition between Activity screens while performing…

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  TheRealTimeWeb.com

• Accessing the mx_internal Namespace in Flex

  20 Jan 2012 | 2:58 am

  This is a topic that comes up from time to time, and it did so for me on a current project so I thought to quickly sum it up again here. I was working on a Flex project using an old SDK (4.1) and the OSMF-based Spark VideoPlayer component contained ...

• FMS/Wowza/Red5 Broadcaster App For Android

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:37 am

  As one of the main contributors to the Red5 project, Paul Gregoire is a well known name in the community. Yesterday he posted a link to an AIR for Android app he built to the Flash Media List and I'm republishing his link here as I think many of you ...

• 2012 - Onwards And Upwards

  31 Dec 2011 | 7:53 am

  As 2011 is drawing to a close (seriously, where has this year gone?) I think it's time for a quick look forward. It's been a turbulent year, especially for the Flash Platform. We have some ups, and definitely some downs, and at times it felt as if ...

• Thoughts On Flash - Revisited

  22 Dec 2011 | 1:25 pm

  Thanks to @bryngfors for pointing out what we all suspected all along: Apple is all talk and little action when it comes to supporting open standards. Prime example: visit trailers.apple.com without the QuickTime plugin installed and you see... not m...

• Hacking FCSubscribe Support Around OSMF

  20 Dec 2011 | 3:41 am

  Recently I had the task of recreating a video player for a customer for which no source code was available. The player needed to support on demand and live streaming, so I opted for an OSMF based player - why reinvent the wheel? Things went well unt...

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  Confessions of a Flash Addict

• 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.

• ‘Confessions of an Flash Addict’ is on Google Currents!

  Sidney de Koning

  12 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am

  Google Currents, a new news feed organizer service ala Flipboard just released it’s ‘producer’ module. This allows you to author your content in their format. Currents is available for iPad, iPhone, Android and a standard tablet version. I think this this app is currently the most beautiful app that organizes your feeds and rearranges them in a very logical way. As from now we can be found in it’s directory as a feed. More information about that can be found on the publishers page. See Currents in action, then download it and install my feed And tell me what you think,…

• Fixing not so standard Ant errors in FDT

  Sidney de Koning

  9 Jan 2012 | 6:26 am

  For this project i’m doing i needed to generate 10 different/unique class files and then compile 10 SWF’s files with those class files. Ant is perfect candidate for this. The real test is deploying your solution to the different members of your team. Here are some Ant issues i ran into. Most of them have to do with different versions of FDT Eclipse combo’s. The use of <fdt.loadProjectProperties /> throws an error. Solution: use loadProjectProperties with the projectname parameter; <fdt.loadProjectProperties projectname=”Name of the project” />. Note:…

• Adding an webbrowser to FDT / Eclipse on Mac OSX

  Sidney de Koning

  2 Jan 2012 | 6:20 am

  Just found a little bug/issue in Eclipse. Turns out that if you want to add an Web browser you have to perform a little trickery. I found this out by opening the default browser value to see if I was doing something wrong. If you want to add Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Brand X browser to Eclipse you would normally press the ‘New’ button and add a new browser in the Web browser preferences. However if you are on a Mac the normal install path does not work (Selecting the /Applications/My App.app ), you need to append “/Contents/MacOS/My App” to the file path name. This value…

• I’ve got a present for you!

  Sidney de Koning

  1 Dec 2011 | 5:22 am

  Have you already read ‘Automating Actionscript Projects’? You should. It’s about making your coding life for AS3 easier. And faster. And build systems. And compiling for mobile devices. And a whole bunch more! Read it so you have more time to spend with your family and less at work during the holiday season If you haven’t read it, I have some discount codes to give away. If you order via the O’Reilly online store you get 40% off the print version and 50%off the digital version! Its my gift to you. While you do the checkout use the code ‘AUTHD‘ to get…

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  Developer Techno

• VI managers Case Studies

  Developer Techno

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:26 am

  In this section, we describe the main features of the most popular VI managers available. Only the most prominent and distinguishing features of each tool are discussed in detail. Apache VCL. The Virtual Computing Lab project has been incepted in 2004 by researchers at the North Carolina State University as a way to provide customized environments to computer lab users. The software components that support NCSU’s initiative have been released as open-source and incorporated by the Apache Foundation. Since its inception, the main objective of VCL has been providing desktop (virtual lab) and…

• VIMs Features

  Developer Techno

  19 Jan 2012 | 9:25 am

  We now present a list of both basic and advanced features that are usually available in VIMs. Virtualization Support. The multi-tenancy aspect of clouds requires multiple customers with disparate requirements to be served by a single hardware infrastructure. Virtualized resources (CPUs, memory, etc.) can be sized and resized with certain flexibility. These features make hardware virtualization, the ideal technology to create a virtual infrastructure that partitions a data center among multiple tenants. Self-Service, On-Demand Resource Provisioning. Self-service access to resources has been…

• CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

  Developer Techno

  17 Jan 2012 | 9:23 am

  A key challenge IaaS providers face when building a cloud infrastructure is managing physical and virtual resources, namely servers, storage, and networks, in a holistic fashion. The orchestration of resources must be performed in a way to rapidly and dynamically provision resources to applications. The software toolkit responsible for this orchestration is called a virtual infrastructure manager (VIM). This type of software resembles a traditional operating system—but instead of dealing with a single computer, it aggregates resources from multiple computers, presenting a uniform view to…

• DESIRED FEATURES OF A CLOUD

  Developer Techno

  13 Jan 2012 | 9:22 am

  Certain features of a cloud are essential to enable services that truly represent the cloud computing model and satisfy expectations of consumers, and cloud offerings must be (i) self-service, (ii) per-usage metered and billed, (iii) elastic, and (iv) customizable. Self-Service Consumers of cloud computing services expect on-demand, nearly instant access to resources. To support this expectation, clouds must allow self-service access so that customers can request, customize, pay, and use services without intervention of human operators. Per-Usage Metering and Billing Cloud computing…

• Virtual Appliances and the Open Virtualization Format

  Developer Techno

  9 Jan 2012 | 9:21 am

  An application combined with the environment needed to run it (operating system, libraries, compilers, databases, application containers, and so forth) is referred to as a “virtual appliance.” Packaging application environments in the shape of virtual appliances eases software customization, configuration, and patching and improves portability. Most commonly, an appliance is shaped as a VM disk image associated with hardware requirements, and it can be readily deployed in a hypervisor. On-line marketplaces have been set up to allow the exchange of ready-made appliances containing popular…

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  SilverlightShow: Silverlight Community

• Daily News Digest 1/27/2012

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:29 am

  Subscribe to our Daily News Digest RSS Feed to receive a summary of all SilverlightShow news! Here is the new SilverlightShow content for Friday, January 27th, 2012. Applying Image Filters in Windows Phone 7 Creating Cross-Platform XAML For Microsoft Developers Trying out the Inneractive WP7 Ad SDK Displaying Webcam Preview in a Metro App Using WinRT and XAML Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App Silverlight Windows Authentication (the Prism way) Connecting to SharePoint on Office 365 with Windows Phone 7 PivotViewer Basics: Basic Item Adorners (Silverlight 5)…

• Applying Image Filters in Windows Phone 7

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:17 am

  Read original post at Henry Chong's Blog I’ve been working on another app for WP7 (pumping them out like clockwork! Playing catchup to Apple / Google is kind of fun…) which is essentially aiming to be a Polaroid camera clone – so you take a picture, virtual camera spits it out, and you shake the photo to “develop” it. As part of this app, images taken with the camera get a “lomo” sort of look, you know, the hipstery kind of discolouration and general awesomeness…

• Creating Cross-Platform XAML For Microsoft Developers

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:04 am

  Read original post by Don Sorcinelli at WP MVP With Windows 8 on the horizon and the potential for creating Metro-style applications for the desktop, crafting XAML that can be used across Windows Phone, Silverlight and the desktop is receiving greater attention. While Microsoft demoed “change a line of code and recompile” functionality late last year at BUILD, the reality is that there is typically a bit more to consider from a design and usability perspective for the user and true code reuse for the developer.

• Trying out the Inneractive WP7 Ad SDK

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:59 am

  Read original post at Social Ebola A few weeks ago, we rolled out updates our apps that had the ability to display ads from a company called inneractive. They contacted us specifically a few weeks ago (not a mass email) and said that they can provide “an average eCPM that is 3 times the industry standard”. At that point, our apps were using PubCenter and we decided to give it a shot.

• Displaying Webcam Preview in a Metro App Using WinRT and XAML

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:44 am

  Read original post by Filip Skakun at Xyzzer's Dev Blog I was looking at the controls available in WinRT () and I’ve stumbled upon this control called – CaptureElement. What it does is it “Represents a media capture from a capture device, for example recorded video content.” I thought I’d give it a go and see if I can display the output from the webcam on screen – which could be useful for AR (Augmented Reality) applications or even just for fun. This is how you do a preview then…

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  WordPress.com News

• Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension

  Christopher Finke

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:54 pm

  Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in your browser: Simply click the icon to view your latest WordPress.com notifications: Start following new blogs without visiting WordPress.com The Chrome extension also makes it easy to follow sites from your WordPress.com account by displaying a Follow button whenever you’re browsing a site that has an RSS feed. Clicking the Follow button…

• Your Stats Have a New Home

  Andy Skelton

  26 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  Are you addicted to checking your site stats? You are not alone. The stats dashboard has always been one of the most popular admin screens. It’s gratifying to know that people are visiting your place online. With the WordPress.com front page evolving into a one-stop shop for posting, exploring, following and reading blogs, it seemed natural to put your blog stats there, too.  Stats are becoming more and more about interacting with your readers and other bloggers. You’ll still see your summary stats and chart on your main dashboard, and the full stats page in your dashboard will…

• Reblogging is Back!

  Erica Johnson

  22 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm

  As we mentioned last week, you can like and reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. We’ve also brought the reblog button back to the toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you’re logged into WordPress.com. Note that you’ll only see the like and reblog options while you’re looking at individual posts. For example, you’ll see this on the left side of your toolbar while viewing http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/read-blogs: And your…

• New Theme: Newsy

  Philip Arthur Moore

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm

  It’s been an extra big week in the news ’round these parts, so much so that the launch announcement of our latest premium theme seems like an extra extra good way to headline our Friday. Newsy is a versatile business and news-friendly theme that offers up to ten different layouts, four footer columns, custom link and accent colors, and a custom site header. Brand and content-focused editorial teams will love publishing with this theme. Newsy: Home Page Designed by Themify, Newsy comes with an impressive set of Theme Options that afford you a great deal of flexibility with how you…

• Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place

  Erica Johnson

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:04 pm

  If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post contains. You can even like and reblog WordPress.com content directly…

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  Spreading Funkyness

• Android’s throat is now exposed

  Cesare

  4 Jan 2012 | 4:20 am

  This article from Business Insider got me started. Since I have to time to address potential fanboy arguments let’s go this way. For each time you think I am a fanboy I’ll think of you one of the following: - troll - user who has time to loose with lower quality devices/experiences - user who likes to accumulate stress Right now that Eric Schmit is promising that Android will soon beat iOS (whatever is the meaning of beating in this context), Android’s throat is getting more and more exposed. I can’t provide evidence but I started to feel a while ago that Android has…

• Kids are the best teachers

  Cesare

  17 Nov 2011 | 5:48 am

  He moves like Steve Jobs and his attitude is inspiring as well.

• Getting started with iCloud

  Cesare

  31 Oct 2011 | 11:07 am

  This is an excerpt from my chapter on iCloud included in iOS5 by tutorials. We all have “stuff” we use on our iPhones and iPads regularly like documents, pictures, videos, emails, calendars, music, and address books. But how many times have you tried to quickly open a document and realized “argh, I have it saved onto another device”? Well, with the new iCloud feature in iOS 5, that is problem of the past! iCloud is a service that helps you synchronize your data across devices. It is a set of central servers which store your documents, and make the latest version available to every…

• Thank you Steve

  Cesare

  6 Oct 2011 | 7:14 am

  I’ll remember you like this, spreading creative fire.

• Building a Jabber client for iOS

  Cesare

  23 Aug 2011 | 2:39 am

  I recently published a tutorial series titled “Building a Jabber client for iOS”. Here is the complete list/ Part 1: Server setup Part 2: Interface setup Part 3: XMPP integration The source code is available here on github

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  RIAgora

• Apache Flex and the community

  admin

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:18 am

  Flex is now an Apache project in incubation (as PhoneGap under the name ‘Cordova’). The community is hyper-active and it’s not a surprise. If you look at what the community has achieved around Flex since its creation, you’ll directly understand why Apache Flex will be successful. Macromedia, and then Adobe, defined Flex’s vision, launching and promoting the concept of Rich Internet Applications. Basically, this trend promotes the development of “software-like” interfaces in web browsers. RIA can answer large organizations needs who want to migrate…

• Flex mobile and music apps

  admin

  19 Jan 2012 | 7:34 am

  Flash (and then Flex) has always been the first choice technology for streaming audio content. I had the chance to work on a very cool mobile application for Radio X-Track. In this article, I’ll showcase this mobile app and share with you some tips on developping this type of application. As I was developing the Radio X-Track mobile apps, Christophe Keromen presented to me another Flex mobile app developed for Mioozic, which I’ll also cover in this article. Lastly, I’ll end by presenting a very cool Flex mobile app named “What’s that track?”, a multiplayer…

• GradleFx automated builds

  admin

  15 Dec 2011 | 7:02 pm

  I’ve just attended the Flex summit, a great event with 40 members of the Flex community. It was the opportunity to brainstorm about future contributions and it went very well. Some members of the community already posted great articles about what have been said. You can read this remarkable article by Adam Flater, another one by Peter Elst  and some great interviews on Nerd Radio. I’m very confident in the future of Flex because of the level of maturity of our community, and also because it’s a passionate one. To showcase this excitement, I’m working on a graph that…

• “Game of Flex” on tablets

  admin

  7 Dec 2011 | 6:23 am

  I’m very happy to announce that “Game of Flex” is available for iPad and Android tablets users (it will be soon available for BlackBerry PlayBook users). Last week, we released Flex 4.6 with great additions to build cross-platform tablet applications. “Game of Flex” is a game built with Flex 4.6 and inspired by Tour de Mobile Flex. As you may know, Tour de Mobile Flex has never been available on the App Store. Let me tell you why: the application has been rejected by Apple because it’s a demo application which violates the developer guidelines. That’s…

• Flex 4.6 is out!

  admin

  30 Nov 2011 | 9:08 am

  The Flex 4.6 SDK is available for download here. If you are using Flash Builder 4.5, download and upgrade your IDE for free. You can download Flash Builder 4.6 here. Since Flex 4.5, you can develop desktop AND mobile applications with a native experience on iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices. Flex mobile applications aim to perform and look like native applications. The new features of Flex 4.6 will help you to achieve great performance and experience. If you take your existing Flex 4.5 mobile project and recompile it with Flex 4.6, you should feel great performance improvements, especially…