Feb 25th, 2008
AIR 1.0, Flex 3.0 and more announced today…
Today, AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0 have officially launched. News coverage is popping up every few minutes – go to Google News and start reading! Companies like eBay, Nasdaq, AOL and the New York Times already have apps up and running. New York Times article on AIR My previous articles on AIR NEW AIR Home [...]
Jan 31st, 2008
RIAs, Dumb Terminals and Business Applications
There has been a lot of talk recently about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and how they are dramatically changing the way we interact with the web. Nearly every day, I discover a cool new RIA that once again raises the bar and reveals yet another way to employ this new technology. I’m always amazed at [...]
Jan 12th, 2008
Buzzword – Online Wordprocessing – Another great RIA!
Ok, there are thousands of rich internet applications (RIAs) out there that I could write about but I’m trying to be very selective in order to provide a good sampling of different uses of RIAs and their advantages. Being pretty is one thing, but being incredibly functional is what makes RIAs exciting. For example, check [...]
Jan 11th, 2008
Adobe Flex and AIR Pre-release tour coming to a city near you!
Adobe Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR product and evangelism teams are traveling to select cities to show off the great new features for this exciting launch. Check the listings at http://flex.org/tour/ to hook up with the local user group in the city [...]
Jan 11th, 2008
Yourminis.com – Another Cool Flex app that I use daily
Several months ago, a friend/co-worker suggested that I take a look at Yourminis.com as a possible RSS reader. I had tried several but didn’t really find anything I liked. I’ve used Yourminis ever since. Yourminis is much more than an RSS reader – it is a Widget Server or as some would say, a “webtop“. [...]
Jan 9th, 2008
Online Photo Editing Site built on Flex – Picnik
At the intersection of my two worlds, Adobe and Photography, is a website called Picnik. Picnik allows it’s users to do many common photo editing tasks without installing any software. You basically go to the Picnik.com, point it to your photo and adjust cropping, brightness, contrast, color balance, sharpness, etc. When the site was first [...]
Jan 4th, 2008
Intelligent Enterprise: Adobe one of the 12 companies that will matter the most to the intelligent enterprise in 2008!
Excerpt - “Adobe is the key company to watch in the race toward mastery of RIA/Web 2.0 development. Having acquired Macromedia and assimilated its technologies, Adobe has a strongly positioned client (Flash) on millions of computers, a corps of evolving development tools (Flex, AIR, ColdFusion) and an apparent willingness to embrace open-source approaches.” For me [...]
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