O’Reilly: Inside RIA

You will notice that InsideRIA has added new listen functionality that allows you to listen to each blog post. This is great for people like me who are usually very busy trying to do more than one thing at a time. Click on the new listen link and a media player will open and begin reading you the post. You also have the option to download a copy of the mp3 file to take with you on your favorite portable devise.

I happy to announce the launch of a community resource center for user interfaces aptly title the User Interface Resource Center. The UIRC is a community driven site focused on providing interface resources and guidelines. Adobe and Microsoft are both partners, so this is sure to be big.

Aptana announced last week they're going to help developers deploy to the cloud, starting with Joyent's hosting services. So now Aptana is helping developers write JavaScript code with their IDE, run JavaScript and on the server with Jaxxer and now deploy their app to the web with the click of a button.

Tomorrow afternoon I am going to be having a chat with a few of the guys from SlideRocket. If you aren't familiar with it - SlideRocket is a Flash/Flex based RIA that really does online presentation creation and delivery right. They are currently in private beta. Let me know if there are any questions that you would like me to ask.

In the last tutorial, I examined some additional techniques for querying an existing database. Today I want to explain how you create a database and create a table inside of that database.. If you are good with SQL and have followed along with this series, this concept will work as expected.

 

One of the most important aspects of delivering a rich user experience is what a user sees and interacts with on the screen. Graphics, whether static or dynamic, comprise the face of an application. Static graphics can definitely suffice for creating the necessary visual parts of an application, but to change them you must replace them with other static graphics. Dynamic graphics, created with programmatic drawing are very powerful because it can be manipulated at run-time, but it can involve more advanced knowledge of the Drawing API. Degrafa is a declarative graphics framework that aims to offer the best of both worlds.

In the last installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at the Cairngorm command. In this installment we're going to have a look at the model locator. Follow along with each stage of development, every Monday on InsideRIA.com.

Join us every Monday for the latest in our follow-along-at-home development series, Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA. This week we're focusing on Cairngorm commands and controllers and where they fit in our development.