http://ria.dzone.com/interviews/current en http://ria.dzone.com/news/passing-data-between-flash-and Our recent adventures in Flex/Flash land have required us to have our Flash and Flex components to talk to each other. Here are some ways in which you can get Flash and Flex to pass data from one to the other. http://ria.dzone.com/news/passing-data-between-flash-and#comments action script flash flex how-to RIA http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3878 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:36 -0400 324 0 Volume4 http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-71517.jpg Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:36 -0400 Volume4 3878 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/bbc-dumps-microsoft-for-adobe- The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that they have dumped the Microsoft solution for an Adobe AIR one. paidContent has posted details, too. http://ria.dzone.com/news/bbc-dumps-microsoft-for-adobe-#comments air flex http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3872 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0400 282 0 BenForta http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0400 BenForta 3872 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ. Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great Google-centric context can be found on the Google Webmaster Central http://ria.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl#comments Adobe flash flex Google search swf http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3852 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 440 0 BenForta http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 BenForta 3852 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/swf-searchable Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what this implies.Web spiders will now be able to playback SWF(s) like users and cull out the data to add to their index. This annoucement has two huge impacts: http://ria.dzone.com/news/swf-searchable#comments Adobe Google search swf web spiders Yahoo http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3850 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 373 0 sandbox http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 sandbox 3850 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/saving-twitter-three-easy-step I don’t think I’m alone in seeing Twitter’s service deteriorate to the point where euthanasia seems like the only humane option.Without any obvious intimate knowledge of how the service is architected, these are my three easy steps to hunt and kill the fail whale.  1. Stop accepting new registrations http://ria.dzone.com/news/saving-twitter-three-easy-step#comments twitter http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3842 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:14:16 -0400 206 0 peterelst http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-294202.jpg Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:14:16 -0400 peterelst 3842 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/theserverside-java-symposium-e Well, I'm home from Prague, from another edition of TheServerSide Java Symposium. This year was definitely a few notches up from last year in Barcelona in my opinion. And being in beautiful Prague didn't really cause any trouble either. =)I landed on Tuesday, and worked quite heavily on my talks. Due to the ThoughtWorks AwayDay I was really out in the last second with my two slide decks. But I... http://ria.dzone.com/news/theserverside-java-symposium-e#comments europe java Seminar The Server Side http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3782 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:48:02 -0400 1250 0 olabini http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-287154.jpg Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:48:02 -0400 olabini 3782 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/ajax-push-and-telephone The telephone is an excellent source of asynchronous events — you never know when it is going to ring. This means that web-based views of the telephony space make for interesting applications of Ajax Push. http://ria.dzone.com/news/ajax-push-and-telephone#comments ajax push async asynchronous ICEfaces telephone http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3781 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:37:49 -0400 1310 0 tedgoddard http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-185263.jpg Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:37:49 -0400 tedgoddard 3781 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/max-2008-sessions-posted The MAX USA 2008 site is now up, and the schedule is now online too complete with the session list. Register now! Oh, and the site background is interactive, and apparently there are http://ria.dzone.com/news/max-2008-sessions-posted#comments AdobeMAX08 Appearances MAX http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3780 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:59 -0400 175 0 BenForta http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:59 -0400 BenForta 3780 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/the-server-side-java-symposium-0 Although I would have liked to post this on Day 2 and Day 3 of the symposium last week, I could get down to doing it only this morning. Day 2 and Day 3 had a whole lot of fantastic sessions like Day 1. Listing them all would be futile, so I am just going to pick up interesting pieces randomly and talk about it a bit. The session that I liked the most and that I was also disappointed with the most... http://ria.dzone.com/news/the-server-side-java-symposium-0#comments Conference europe java java symposium prague http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3705 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:57:55 -0400 1143 4 sandbox http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:57:55 -0400 sandbox 3705 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/the-server-side-java-symposium Its about 6.30PM here in Prague and the day 1 of The Server Side Java Symposium (TSSJS) is wrapping up for the day with an award ceremony (sponsored by GigaSpaces). I am too tired and sleepy to carry on after yesterday's long flight and lack of sleep but thought of posting a few interesting things that I noticed here at the symposium today. http://ria.dzone.com/news/the-server-side-java-symposium#comments europe java java symposium tssjs http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3598 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:08:11 -0400 1981 2 sandbox http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:08:11 -0400 sandbox 3598 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/yet-another-javafx-review Matt Stephens has written a witty and caustic review of JavaFX on The Register. While its not uncommon for reviewers to rip apart JavaFx, Matt has a few interesting perspetives. The key points in his review (according to me) are as follows: http://ria.dzone.com/news/yet-another-javafx-review#comments java javafx RIA http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3514 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:45:07 -0400 2025 19 sandbox http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:45:07 -0400 sandbox 3514 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/get-know-merb Merb is a lightweight MVC framework that is becoming popular among rubyists. Its claim to fame it that it is flexible. Its agnostic to ORM frameworks, JavaScript libraries or the templating engines. The core is pretty small and light. Support for all kinds of libraries is provided through plug-in(s). It supports ActiveRecord, DataMapper, and Sequel ORMs. http://ria.dzone.com/news/get-know-merb#comments framework merb mvc Rails Ruby http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3497 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:00:45 -0400 1138 0 sandbox http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:00:45 -0400 sandbox 3497 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/fractal-programming This is a continuation of my previous posts describing layers of code written in different programming languages. I have thought about the things involved for a while, and had several discussions with people about it. There were some parts that I didn't describe as well as I thought in my posts, and I will try to do better in this one. http://ria.dzone.com/news/fractal-programming#comments Domain Specific Languages Dynamic languages Fractal Programming programming http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/3298 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:06:28 -0400 3068 0 olabini http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-287154.jpg Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:06:28 -0400 olabini 3298 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/whats-best-web-developers-code I love talking about IDEs and code editors. This has to be the damn touchiest nerd subject of all-time. http://ria.dzone.com/news/whats-best-web-developers-code#comments http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/2307 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:11:14 -0400 6657 16 sikanrong http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-238604.jpg Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:11:14 -0400 sikanrong 2307 at http://ria.dzone.com http://ria.dzone.com/news/are-java-applets-dead-man-walk This evening I read a provocative piece on a blog by FunkyCodeMonkey, the thinking monkey. (I can't tell you how  amazed I am that a monkey can actually write this well. They sure have come a long way since Yerkish!) Anyway, the piece is very brief, and the title sums it up "No Last Minute Comeback for the Applet." I'm basically quoting it in its entirety: http://ria.dzone.com/news/are-java-applets-dead-man-walk#comments 6uN applet flex http://ria.dzone.com/crss/node/2261 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:41:54 -0400 4741 26 rick http://ria.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-3.jpg Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:41:54 -0400 rick 2261 at http://ria.dzone.com