January 2008 Archives

The RIA Elevator Speech

Tony MacDonell
January 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

Almost everyone in the tech industry is familiar with the concept of an "Elevator Speech". You meet someone for the first time, they ask you what you do, and your job is to very quickly explain it. Who knows, it may be a potential client you're talking to, so you have to make sure what you say is precise, exciting, and positions you as an expert in their eyes.

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design
ria

Greetings and Salutations

Andrew Trice
January 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

An introduction by Andrew Trice, and a little bit about what you'll find in his blog.

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Andrew Trice, Principal Architect for Flex & AIR at Cynergy Systems. I was completely caught off guard when asked to be a part of this project, and I have to admit that I am honored and excited to be a part of it.

Google's Indexing Flash Text with Adobe's SDK

Andre Charland
January 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (6)

Google's Indexing Flash Text with Adobe's SDK

I just caught this very exciting bit of information regarding Flash in Google searches. Google's indexing Flash text content using Adobe's Search Engine SDK. This is according to an interview Stephen Spencer conducted with Matt Cutts from Google. I haven't found this on any official Google page, but it is more or less from the horses mouth.

ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not?

Colin Moock
January 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (90)

In parts of the Flash community, ActionScript 3.0 seems to have gained a reputation for being “hard” —- particularly among those who have not yet tried the new language. Colin Moock, author of Essential ActionScript 3.0, explores this issue and offers code examples comparing earlier versions of ActionScript to version 3.0.

Life Outside of the Browser

David Tucker
January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

With the launch of InsideRIA.com I wanted to give everyone some information about what I going to be blogging about in the upcoming months and give you some background on my development history.

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air

Hello World.

Gabor Vida
January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

It seems that introductions are in order - I am Gabor Vida and I am honored to be part of InsideRIA. I am a partner at Teknision, where I focus on the project strategy, vision and user experience. I try...

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design

Introduction

Raymond Camden
January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)

In this blog entry Raymond Camden introduces himself and discussed his current experience with Ajax.

Create your first AIR application in Flex Builder 3

Rich Tretola
January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (8)

This screencast tutorial will take you through the complete cycle of building a Flex based AIR project with Flex Builder 3 Beta 3 from the creation of the project through the export to the AIR package.

Without the why we are powerless

Tony MacDonell
January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

There is a vision for the Rich Internet Applications out there in the industry, but now that many players are coming into the arena, that vision is blurring, and the concept ends up being anything anyone wants it to be.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 1: The Tools You’ll Want

Tony Hillerson
January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (15)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 1: The Tools You’ll Want

In this series, we’ll look at a small application that integrates the technologies of LCDS and EJB 3.0, and we’ll cover some timesaving tools as well as discuss how to use them to achieve a lightweight development environment for integrating an RIA with an enterprise environment. Ready to get started? First, a look at the tools a developer needs to follow along at home…

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Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 2: Running the Sample Code
Tony Hillerson

Last installment we looked at the tools we'll be discussing in this series. Now we're going to look at the sample code that uses those tools as a way to show Flex working in an enterprise setting. To run the... Continue Reading
What is RIA?
Rich Tretola

The term RIA (Rich Internet Application) seems to take on many different definitions when it is discussed within the Internet development community. As we prepared for the upcoming launch of InsideRIA, we thought it would be interesting to see... Continue Reading
ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not?
Colin Moock

In parts of the Flash community, ActionScript 3.0 seems to have gained a reputation for being "hard"—particularly among those who have not yet tried the new language. Is the reputation warranted? Not in my opinion. When ActionScript 3.0 was... Continue Reading
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 1: The Tools You’ll Want
Tony Hillerson

In this installment of the series Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're doing a little grunt work and installing some tools we'll be using later. Download them and read up a bit on what they do. These tools are... Continue Reading

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