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GDS Ships FOSS Alternative to Adobe LiveCycle DS

Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flex™ 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers. It is...

0 replies - 3608 views - 01/31/08 by Franck Wolff in News

Penetration in the AIR

In my humble opinion, Adobe has done a great job in encouraging developers to consider AIR as a desktop application development platform. Applications are...

7 replies - 1305 views - 01/30/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Being creative again: Flex or Java?

Amongst the things that really amazed me this afternoon in Gent was Lovely Charts, an online charting application that’s currently under semi-private beta....

14 replies - 4245 views - 01/26/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Flex 3 to be released February 12th, 2008?

I attended an excellent conference today in Gent university, which was part of Adobe Flex 3 pre-release tour. And even though neither James Ward nor Serge...

1 replies - 838 views - 01/26/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

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 - 3428 views - 01/24/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

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 - 1661 views - 01/24/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

A sketch of Adobe Flex Architecture capabilities

I am evaluating Adobe Flex technology to do rich internet applications. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: so in the following I sketched an...

1 replies - 3607 views - 01/24/08 by Piero Campanelli in News

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 - 1294 views - 01/18/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

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 - 564 views - 01/17/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

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 - 415 views - 01/17/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

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 - 1817 views - 01/16/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

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 - 892 views - 12/27/07 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

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 - 384 views - 12/27/07 by Dan Wilson in Blogs