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360|Flex Atlanta - Big Success

The 360|Flex Conference, Atlanta version, is drawing to a close and it is now time to take home the fancy conference schwag and tons of new information. I'll...

0 replies - 310 views - 02/27/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Adobe Fires a Shot Across The Bow

For those new to Rich Internet Applications, there is a War of the Platforms taking place right now. Users are demanding more intuitive applications, increased...

0 replies - 1268 views - 02/25/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

CSS3: A solution for applications, or are we the boiling frogs?

The old saying goes, if you throw a frog into boiling water, he will jump out quickly. If you put the frog in a pot of water and slowly increase the...

2 replies - 1322 views - 02/21/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

OK, So Can Ajax Do This?

Ajax, Flex and Silverlight are pretty much the top of the foodchain when talking about RIAs. Sure there are some other technologies, but none have quite the...

2 replies - 2035 views - 02/07/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

A Hungry Suitcase? RIA innovation in advertising

Internet Advertisting is a very dynamic industry. Most heavy Internet users are trained to look right through ads. Banners, Text Links, Flashing Rotating...

0 replies - 459 views - 02/04/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Adobe AIR/Flex 3 prerelease by Ben Forta in North Carolina

Last night, Ben Forta came to Cary, North Carolina to showcase the soon to be released Flex 3 and AIR products from Adobe. Flex Builder 3 is a compelling...

1 replies - 1509 views - 01/24/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Live example of the ColdFusion 8 AJAX Integration Features

One of my good friends, Rama Marupilla, showed me a recent project where he used CFGrid to make a searchable, filterable restaurant locater. Have a look at...

0 replies - 513 views - 01/24/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

How I enabled Flash to load content from an off-webroot crossdomain.xml file

Bruce Phillips (You should check out his interesting Flex posts) let me know that my Surfing Stats data didn't load when the swf was located off my...

0 replies - 254 views - 01/24/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Virtual World done in Flex. Very Cool.

Thanks to Ryan Stewart, I just spent some time inside SmallWorlds. Smallworlds is an interesting take on social networks. I found the experience pretty fun. I...

0 replies - 214 views - 01/18/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Nice Flex Framework Roundup

Moxie Zhang, over at InfoQ writes about Open Source Flex frameworks.There are 7 listed frameworks, some of which are pure AS3 frameworks. This means you can...

0 replies - 142 views - 01/17/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Connect to Native .Net libraries though the Adobe AIR platform

One advantage C# has over Java is the ability to reach deep within the host Window OS and access processes and functionality. Our best information indicates...

0 replies - 95 views - 01/17/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Flex 3 Release World Tour Begins Jan 14th

The release of Flex 3 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is imminent. To help kick things off properly, Adobe are starting a World Tour. Expect prizes,...

0 replies - 381 views - 01/16/08 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

On RIA Monetization

Recently Yahoo unveiled their new Maps product. Most shocking is the new Yahoo Maps is built on an AJAX platform, replacing the previous Flex 1.5...

0 replies - 135 views - 12/27/07 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized

Flex Frameworks

In the Flex world there is much discussion over how to organize complex applications. Certainly there exists a number of interesting Flex Frameworks. Right...

0 replies - 80 views - 12/27/07 by Dan Wilson in Uncategorized