February 2008 Archives

Spry 1.6.1 Released

Raymond Camden
February 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

A few days ago I mentioned that a new release from the Adobe Spry was on the way, and today it landed. Version 1.6.1 is branded as an AIR update, and many of the updates are directly in relation to support for running with AIR, but some pretty darn cool features were added to this release as well. This week I'm going to discuss these changes and show some examples.

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ajax
spry

To Conquer Form Factor

Tony MacDonell
February 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)

This platform released today provides an effective solution for slaying one dragon, but a much scarier dragon lurks atop the mountain I call form factor. The danger is in thinking that we have a platform for developing universal experiences, when the truth is, that we have a platform that provides us with a universal runtime to build experiences upon. Just because your code is cross-platform, doesn't mean that your experience is.

Welcome Flex 3 and AIR 1.0

Rich Tretola
February 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Congratulations to both the Flex team and AIR team for their hard work over the past few years. Flex has undergone many personalities over the past 5 years, reinventing itself along the way. Those of you who remember Royale and...

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air
flex

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 6: The Data Project Maven Build

Tony Hillerson
February 24, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 6: The Data Project Maven Build

In the last installment we looked at the Maven build lifecycle and where the tests are located in our sample application. In this installment of the Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we'll look at how Maven and Ant integrate and how we'll use DBUnit and DDLUtils to build and populate the database. Join us every Monday for another step in the development process.

ScienceLogic: Using Flex for Complex Data Visualization

Andrew Trice
February 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (10)

One of the projects that I am actively involved with at Cynergy Systems has recently gone gold, and into production. This is a brief case study how Adobe Flex was used to visualize complex data relationships for computer network topologies for ScienceLogic's EM7 Network Management appliance

Papervision3D: Part 1- Foundation and 3D Object Basics

John Lindquist
February 21, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (110)

Papervision3D opens a whole new dimension to World Wide Web. The third dimension! Thanks to a core group of ActionScript geniuses who understand mathematical representations of 3D space way better than you or me, we can now easily add a new perspective to our Flash applications. This article will cover what’s necessary to set up your first Papervision3D application as well as introduce you to adding 3D objects. Put on your 3-dimensional hat and let’s get started!

Spry update on the way

Raymond Camden
February 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

I'm a bit late in reporting this, but the Spry team blogged about their upcoming 1.7 release of Spry. I'm a huge fan of this Ajax framework, and it looks like some exciting new features are on the way.

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adobe
ajax
spry

Adobe on AIR Tour is Headed to Europe

Andre Charland
February 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)

The word is out, Adobe is taking the gang of evangelists, a few other AIR hackers and yours truly across the pond to Europe. We're going to be hitting 12 cities from Madrid to Stockholm this spring and summer. Each event will cover everything from basic AIR development in Flex, Flash and Ajax to advanced topics and cool demos. Like the North American tour I'm sure there will be food and drink provided.

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air
europe
event

Bad Usability Calendar and Anti-Patterns

Andre Charland
February 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

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The "Bad Usability Calendar" reminded me that it's just as important to look at mistakes as it is best practices. Here's a couple resources you and your team can use immediately to avoid common user interface pitfalls.

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 1

Ben Longoria
February 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (6)

In this series of articles I will be looking at why RIA developers should be interested in Mozilla. This is an important topic, especially if you're one of those wise and pragmatic developers who likes to pick the right tool for the job, which we all are right? Learning about the breadth of the technologies that Mozilla's projects cover can potentially save you a lot of work for your next project!

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Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 6: The Data Project Maven Build
Tony Hillerson

Last installment we examined the Maven build lifecycle and where the tests are located in our sample application. Now, we'll look at how Maven and Ant integrate and how we'll use DBUnit and DDLUtils to build and populate the... Continue Reading
Papervision3D: Part 1- Foundation and 3D Object Basics
John Lindquist

Papervision3D Papervision3D is an open-source, MIT licensed 3D engine written in ActionScript 3.0 for Flash. This article will teach you how to set up your first Papervision3D application with the most recent revision as of this writing, Papervision3D 2.0 Alpha,... Continue Reading
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 5: Build Life Cycle
Tony Hillerson

Last installment we looked at more of Maven's project structure. Now we'll look at the Maven build lifecycle and where the tests are located in our sample application. The build life cycle that Maven defines is the set of... Continue Reading
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 4: The Three Child Projects
Tony Hillerson

Last installment we started looking at how we organized our J2EE project structure and described it with Maven. Now we'll continue looking at the project's structure. One of the locations that Maven expects to find in a project is... Continue Reading

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