Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Q&A on SAVARA

We spoke with Gary Brown and Steve Ross-Talbot to get their ideas about architectural agility and how savara fits in.

Automatic serialization of ActionScript objects to and from XML

In Flex applications that use a backend server for data manipulation and storage, serializing and transferring the objects from one layer to another is an...

2 replies - 4595 views - 04/23/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18942 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21499 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Flex and Spring Integration Refcard Released: Meet The Authors

Today we release the Flex & Spring Integration Refcard, which is now available to download. I asked the authors, James Ward and Jon Rose, a little bit more...

0 replies - 3987 views - 04/06/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

An Introduction to Spring BlazeDS Integration

Last December, SpringSource and Adobe announced a partnership aimed at streamlining the integration between Spring and BlazeDS. This partnership has led to the...

12 replies - 49649 views - 04/02/09 by christophe coenraets in Articles

Creating Sound using MediaStreamSource in Silverlight 3 Beta

Creating sound from raw bits is, believe it or not, slightly more involved than creating video from raw bits in Silverlight 3.

3 replies - 1265 views - 03/24/09 by Psychlist1972 in News

Silverlight 3: Array Helper

Here is the collection of Array-related functions that are missing in Silverlight. I will upload the sample file with Unit Test later. The Silverlight Unit...

0 replies - 862 views - 03/23/09 by Michael Sync in News

Getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta

At Adobe MAX, Adobe announced the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (formerly, code name “Cocomo”) project that you can use to add real-time...

1 replies - 4796 views - 03/23/09 by Ryan Stewart in News

Providing AMF REST Resources in Java

Action Message Format (AMF) is a high-performance web services protocol that was developed and designed especially for Flash applications by Adobe. AMF is...

1 replies - 3623 views - 03/19/09 by stoicflame in Articles

MIX09 Day 1 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements and Releases

  Wednesday was Day 1 of Microsoft’s MIX 2009 conference. The keynote was handled by Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie. There were a lot of announcements...

0 replies - 1373 views - 03/19/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Flex best practices – Part 2: Development practices

Part 1 of this series focused on best practices for setting up your Flex projects. In Part 2, I continue the discussion by outlining best practices to...

0 replies - 15028 views - 03/16/09 by seantheflexguy in News

Using Desktop MVC Patterns with ZK, Spring & JPA

In this article I will discuss the "ZkToDo2" sample application that demonstrates desktop MVC patterns using the ZK RIA AJAX framework, Spring and...

6 replies - 9276 views - 03/12/09 by simon_massey in Articles

Flex best practices – Part 1: Setting up your Flex project

This is the first part of my series on using and applying best practices to your Flex development process. This article will focus on best...

1 replies - 14840 views - 03/11/09 by seantheflexguy in News

Flex Guys Are Going Too Far

There’s been a lot of fuzz lately in the Flex community around the way the Flex SDK Open Source efforts are handled by Adobe. And let’s just say things...

0 replies - 691 views - 03/11/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in Articles

More Uses for Value Converters and Extension Methods in Silverlight Binding

I’m working on a super quick Silverlight 2 application for a restaurant kiosk. We’re using EF and Astoria / ADO.NET Data Services as our data provider, and...

0 replies - 1445 views - 03/07/09 by Psychlist1972 in News