February 2008 Archives

Flash and Ajax Mapping Toolkits

Andre Charland
February 7, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

After seeing the Oakland Crime Spotting project demo at Web Direction North last week I wanted to learn about about the various mapping tools and projects going on in the RIA space. I found some pretty handy toolkits for Flash and Ajax alike.

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ajax
flash
library
map

Understanding The Architecture of a Rich Internet Application

Andrew Trice
February 6, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Whether you are using Flex, Ajax, Silverlight, JavaFx, or some other RIA technology, the basic architecture is going to be pretty similar... In most cases you will typically have have a stateful client application and a separate services layer on the backend. It is important to understand this differentiation, and to understand that this plays a huge role in how you design and build your applications.

Example of Coding in Jaxer

Raymond Camden
February 6, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

So continuing on with my discussion with Jaxer, the new product from Aptana, today I got my hands a bit dirty with the code. I've complained previously about the lack of documentation, so please bear in mind that any code sample I show will probably not be 'best practice' - but since there isn't any best practices doc, I can't be wrong, right? (Of course, by the time I post this, I bet there will be one.)

Data Visualization iGoogle Gadgets

Andre Charland
February 6, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

I just saw the new Google Data Visualization Gadgets over on Infostehtics, apparently they have a whole bunch of other charts too. Sounds like they're pretty easy to use. I think this is definitely just the beginning of trend in easy to use, but rather specific, RIA mashup UIs.

Singularity a New Online Web Conference

Andre Charland
February 5, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

There's a brand new web conference on the circuit called Singularity. The conference looks like to have great line up of web luminaries already including Derek Featherstone, Molly Holzschlag, Joshua Hirsch and many more. There's a twist to this conference though in that it's online.

Misconceptions about AIR

Jonathan Snook
February 5, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

Every fledgling technology has misconceptions about it until people get more exposure to it, have used it, have developed with it, and understand the intent and limitations of that technology. AIR is no exception. Robert O'Callahan made a couple remarks concerning AIR, highlighting these misconceptions such as sandboxing applications and the ability to use custom chrome. Jonathan Snook looks to clarify why sandboxing isn't necessary and why custom chrome shouldn't be feared.

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air

AIR API - Introduction to the Clipboard

David Tucker
February 5, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Native clipboard support is an essential element of OS integration within AIR. Its use can be a simple as copying a line of text from one document to another or as complex as passing references to an array of files from one application to another. In this tutorial I will demonstrate the basics of the Clipboard functionality that is included with Adobe AIR.

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air api

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 3: The Project's Structure

Tony Hillerson
February 4, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (7)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 3: The Project's Structure

In the last installment of our Development Series Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at the sample code that uses the tools discussed in this series. Now we're going to have a look at J2EE project structures and how Maven, a build process and code process management tool, works with them.

Compare JavaScript Compression Utilities

Andre Charland
February 3, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (10)

Need to check how small you can compress your JavaScript code with various common compression utilities such as Gzip, JSmin, Dojo Skrinksafe, Packer and YUI Compressor? To avoid having to download and install all the various tools you can use CompressorRater to quickly determine which compression technique will be best for your code.

Flex Graphics Tricks Part 2: Blend Modes

Andrew Trice
February 3, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Here's the second installment of my mini-series on Flex graphics tricks. The first one was about using masks with Flex objects to create interesting effects. There are lots of cool thingsthat you can do with masks, but this time I am going to focus on graphics blend modes.

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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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