Category Archives: RIA

Adobe holding a series of online seminars this week

Info here.
Some of the more interesting sessions:
Extending Web to the Desktop with AIR
Monday, March 24, 2008
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific
Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3
Monday, March 24, 2008
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific
Building Rich Internet Applications with Flex 3
Monday, March 24, 2008
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM US/Pacific
Introduction to Adobe Blaze DS
Tuesday, March [...]

Run Ruby code in the Flash Player?

Or even better write Flash/Flex Rich Internet Applications with Ruby? Ted Patrick says it may soon be possible.
When Microsoft released Silverlight the one feature that got a lot of people excited was that you could use the language you were most familiar with to build a RIA. Apparently Adobe has an internal project which allows [...]

Looking for Flex work in New York?

Tim let me know that massify.com are looking for a Flex/Flash developer.
Company: massify.com
Job Title: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Description: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Massify is a community driven site that brings film creatives and
movie buffs together in the pursuit of great film; we’re using the
power of the web to transform the way films are made – and, in [...]

Adobe Compares Flex and Ajax

The comparison is coming from one of the horses mouths so take it with a grain a salt. That said I think Adobe tried not to step on some Ajax toes and didn’t make a strong enough case for Flex.
It’s a good basic overview but there are a couple of things I disagree with;
Why use [...]

Sorting Images with a Flex Tile Component

This is a test for an image manager component that I’m building. The final version will have an upload feature, and when you sort the images they’ll hook up with their model in Rails using acts_as_list to save the sorting in the database. Right click the swf below to view source.

I’ve built something similar in [...]

Lee Brimelow on Taking Flash to the Desktop

This was my favorite presentation of the LA stop of the Adobe AIR bus tour. Lee is very engaging and shows off a bunch of AIR apps built with Flash. If you have a Flash, rather than Flex, background Lee’s presentation will show that you’re invited to the AIR party too – don’t be shy [...]

Everybody’s chatting about Flex

…make that chatting on Flex. All Flex front-ends but a multitude of approaches to flinging the messages about on the back-side.

Ted (on Flex) has his AIRchat running on Python Twisted.
Derek Wischusen has his messages moving atop Rails, Apache ActiveMQ, ActiveMessaging, and STOMP (post 1, post 2)
Alex McCaw is the creator of Juggernaut which can use [...]

Running your Web 2.0 app on the iPhone

If that title had any more buzz words my blog might explode.
Apple is holding a series of one day events in August on getting your app to play nice with the iPhone.
Of course if said 2.0 application is Flex you’re out of luck, for now.