O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Steve Souders the creator of YSlow has now released Cuzillion which is essentially a page load simulation tool. Very cool for figuring the best way to structure your and in which order to load assets.

Overview   As Flex developers we strive to create user experiences that are engaging and efficient.  The mandate of this mantra requires us to take startup times into account.  When we build our applications, the last thing that we...

Lee Brimelow an Adobe Flash evangelist just posted a video tutorial on decompiling SWFs into timeline and AS code.

I just finished uploading a new tutorial to gotoAndLearn() which shows you how to use SWF decompiling as a learning tool to see what Flash is doing behind the scenes to your timeline code. Some people think that the words ethical and decompiling have no business being used together in the same sentence but I believe otherwise. It is obvious that you should not steal assets or code directly and if you do, you will more than likely get caught and be exposed.

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.

Learn how to enhance your stand-alone installation of Flex Builder with some of your favorite features from Eclipse's Java Developers Toolkit and Web Standard Tools by dropping a few jars into your plugins directory. In this entry we'll discuss the TODO/FIXME tool, Snippets, Mylyn integration with Trac, and a fix to menu crashes in Leopard.

Last week Ubuntu 8.04 was released, and I have got to say, I am impressed. Of course, once the OS was installed, my next logical step was to get Flex Builder for Linux working on it. Here's a step-by-step guide to what I did to get Flex Builder working on there.

The updated AIR for JavaScript O'reilly book is out and it's free so download it here! Not only is it free but it's creative commons licensed which means you could modify if you felt so inclined. This is a great overview of how to use AIR with HTML and JS. If you read the earlier version from year it's important to get the new as the security model has changed since then.

I'm going to be at JavaOne May 6th-9th and CommunityOne on May 5th. This is going to be the most exciting JavaOne to date for RIA developers. There's lots of great Ajax, JavaScript and JavaFX content obviously. But there's a number or Flex sessions and at least on AIR session which includes a case study.

Amazon continues to tweak their webservices (S3, EC2, SimpleDB, etc...) to respond to the needs of the users. Over the last month, three major enhancements have been announced.

 

I was really excited during the early days of Apollo testing when the Artemis project was announced and wrote several sample applications. It was a way for AIR to communicate with Java through a bridge.