February 2008 Archives

Flex Graphics Tricks Part 3: Graphics Filters

Andrew Trice
February 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (8)

Here's the third installment of my mini-series on Flex graphics tricks. These do not only apply to Flex, they apply to Flash as well. My particular focus here is using graphics filters within a Flex application. Graphics filters allow you to perform bitmap-level effects on any DisplayObject... thus any object that can be displayed in Flex. Filters enable everything from blurs, glows, and dropshadows all the way to color processing, sharpening, and edge detection. This sounds very daunting, however they are really pretty easy to get started with.

Quick RIA and Web Development Survey

Andre Charland
February 19, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

What flavor of RIA are you using? I'm doing a bit of research with the crew at Nitobi and we've put together a quick, informal survey about web design and development tools and platforms. It's only 14 short answer and multiple choice questions, and focuses on how designers and developers are adopting RIA technologies and tools.

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ajax
flex
ria
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LFFS - 2: Flex Defined

Adam Flater & Scott Sheridan
February 19, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (7)

In this post we take a deeper look at what Flex is and what it can do. Our goal is to provide a clear picture of the environment in which you use Flex to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Fist, let's have a quick discussion about the nature of RIAs so that we can understand why we would want to use Flex in the first place.

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flex
lffs

ColdFusion and RIA Development - Part 2

Raymond Camden
February 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

In my last post, I discussed how ColdFusion aids RIA developers, both Flash/Flex as well as AJAX developers. I focused on serving data up to RIA consumers. In this entry, I'm going to discuss other Ajax features, most of which help out on the front end of your web site, an area ColdFusion has traditionally stayed away from (which makes sense as a back-end development platform).

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coldfusion
ria

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 5: Build Life Cycle

Tony Hillerson
February 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 5: Build Life Cycle

The last installment offered a guided tour of our project's structure, with an in-depth look at the three child projects and the project dependencies. In this installment of the Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we’ll take a look at the Maven build lifecycle and where the tests are located in our sample application. Join in our development exercise, every Monday.

AIR API - Intro to the Updater

David Tucker
February 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

One of the most useful and exciting elements of the AIR API is the Update capability. This capability is further enhanced by the freedom AIR gives the developer in how to integrate this functionality. Update support within AIR is handled by the flash.desktop.Updater class (note that this is in the flash.desktop package and not flash.system from some of the earlier beta versions of AIR).

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air
air api

Usability/User Experience "Specialist" is a Top Job

Andre Charland
February 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Given that I believe RIA technologies should only be used to improve usability and user experience in web software, I'm ecstatic that the role of the usability specialist is getting wide spread attention. It gained a spot in the U.S News list of Best Careers for 2008.

ColdFusion and RIA Development

Raymond Camden
February 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

In this article I'm going to discuss ColdFusion and what it has built in to enable RIA development. I'm going to focus (mainly) on what ships with the server out of the box. I'm also curious as to what PHP and .Net ships with to help RIA developers. I'm (obviously) a CF guy and will admit I know little about PHP and .Net, so if you are a developer with RIA experience in that area, drop me a line at my blog as I'd like to follow this article up with details about those platforms.

Web Directions North 08 Wrap Up on RIA

Andre Charland
February 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

The Web Directions North 08 event was great with an amazing cross section of speakers from a wide range of fields related to RIA. From Jared Spool's talk on usability to Douglas Crockford famous Ajax security talk. I thought it would be handy to post links to a few of the presentations that are online.

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air
ajax
ria

AJAX World 3/18/08 - 3/20/08

Rich Tretola
February 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

2008 will for many enterprises be the Decision Year for their choice of RIA platform, and AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 (March 18-20, 2008) is the place to be if you want easy access under one roof to a welter of resources, ideas and examples to help you decide.

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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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