InsideRIAtag:www.insideria.com,2007-12-16://342009-11-20T15:00:00ZInsideRIA.com is an online community developed by O’Reilly and sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Our goal is to create an invaluable resource for information on the ever-changing state of design and development of rich Internet applications (RIAs).Movable Type Pro 4.21-enValidation in Flex with Hamcrest-AS3tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385432009-11-20T15:00:00Z2009-11-20T15:00:00ZHamcrest? No, it isn't a fancy sandwich topping. Hamcrest is a framework for creating matchers, allowing matching rules to be defined declaratively (from Wikipedia). Hamcrest has been used by many popular unit testing frameworks including JUnit and FlexUnit 4. Hamcrest-AS3...Joel Hookshttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3873
Hamcrest? No, it isn't a fancy sandwich topping. Hamcrest is a framework for creating matchers, allowing matching rules to be defined declaratively (from Wikipedia). Hamcrest has been used by many popular unit testing frameworks including JUnit and FlexUnit 4. Hamcrest-AS3...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3873textGoogle Closure: A New Way of Developing in JavaScripttag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385492009-11-19T20:00:00Z2009-11-19T20:00:00ZEvery day million people make use of Google products and these products are written mainly using one well known language: JavaScript! What makes this online software stable, fast and responsive is a good use of the language and an excellent system of data compression and asynchronous loading. Today this power is available to everyone, since Google has released its magic tool under Apache 2 license.Davide Zanottihttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3894
Every day million people make use of Google products and these products are written mainly using one well known language: JavaScript! What makes this online software stable, fast and responsive is a good use of the language and an excellent system of data compression and asynchronous loading. Today this power is available to everyone, since Google has released its magic tool under Apache 2 license.http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3894textUsing Google Analytics With AJAXtag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385422009-11-19T15:00:00Z2009-11-19T15:00:00ZA couple months ago I wrote an article on how to use Dojo to create a rich UI for websites. One of the key points of the article was how to support all users -- those with JavaScript enabled and those without. The purpose of this was to enable basic browsers like search engine spiders to go through your site without JavaScript, while enabling the rich interface for your regular users.John Barlowhttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3847
A couple months ago I wrote an article on how to use Dojo to create a rich UI for websites. One of the key points of the article was how to support all users -- those with JavaScript enabled and those without. The purpose of this was to enable basic browsers like search engine spiders to go through your site without JavaScript, while enabling the rich interface for your regular users.http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3847textOpen for Business - Designing Social Interfacestag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385392009-11-19T14:00:00Z2009-11-19T14:00:00ZThis is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.Christian Crumlishhttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3438
This is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3438textRIA Unleashed Boston Conference - My thoughtstag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385382009-11-19T11:00:00Z2009-11-19T11:00:00ZKevin Shuttle already beat me to the proverbial punch with his review, but I'd to share some of my thoughts on a recent Boston based conference called RIA Unleashed. This developer focused event was recently held at Bentley College, Waltham,...Scott Janousekhttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3651
Kevin Shuttle already beat me to the proverbial punch with his review, but I'd to share some of my thoughts on a recent Boston based conference called RIA Unleashed. This developer focused event was recently held at Bentley College, Waltham,...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3651textUsing UDP socket connections for low-latency and loss-tolerant scenarios in AIR 2 (Part 3)tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.382132009-11-19T09:00:00Z2009-11-19T09:00:00ZNow that we have a client built that will send and receive packets we need a server for it to communicate with. Lets walk through a quick implementation of a basic Java UDP socket server. Some familiarity with Java is...Ian McLeanhttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3870
Now that we have a client built that will send and receive packets we need a server for it to communicate with. Lets walk through a quick implementation of a basic Java UDP socket server. Some familiarity with Java is...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3870textConference Review: RIA Unleashed Bostontag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385032009-11-18T14:00:00Z2009-11-18T14:00:00ZBoston was home to the RIAUnleashed conference on Friday, November 13, and was jam-packed with Flex, AIR, ColdFusion and other RIA goodness. What was so unique to me about this conference was the fact that not only were the speakers...Kevin Suttlehttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3781
Boston was home to the RIAUnleashed conference on Friday, November 13, and was jam-packed with Flex, AIR, ColdFusion and other RIA goodness. What was so unique to me about this conference was the fact that not only were the speakers...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3781textFlex Indianapolis UG Meeting tonighttag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385312009-11-18T09:59:37Z2009-11-18T09:59:37ZThe Flex UG in Indianapolis has been "offline" for a while but is back tonight 11/18/09 for its first meeting under new UG manager Mick Keily. Joe Johnston and Peter Buick from Universal Mind making an appearance in Indianapolis. "We'll...Rich Tretolahttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3426
The Flex UG in Indianapolis has been "offline" for a while but is back tonight 11/18/09 for its first meeting under new UG manager Mick Keily. Joe Johnston and Peter Buick from Universal Mind making an appearance in Indianapolis. "We'll...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3426textUsing UDP socket connections for low-latency and loss-tolerant scenarios in AIR 2 (Part 2)tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.381632009-11-18T09:00:00Z2009-11-18T09:00:00ZSo now that we understand the usage of UDP lets jump right into building a basic UDP client and server. We'll use the DatagramSocket class to send packets to a specific port at a specific address. We'll also bind our...Ian McLeanhttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3870
So now that we understand the usage of UDP lets jump right into building a basic UDP client and server. We'll use the DatagramSocket class to send packets to a specific port at a specific address. We'll also bind our...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3870textMicrosoft DRM part 3tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.383762009-11-17T20:31:02Z2009-11-17T20:31:02Z Next in my series describing my implementation of Microsoft DRM I will detail how I refined the work flow to a single process. This process is portable, can be run on any machine, so it negates the need to...Tom Barkerhttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3751
Next in my series describing my implementation of Microsoft DRM I will detail how I refined the work flow to a single process. This process is portable, can be run on any machine, so it negates the need to...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3751textUsing UDP socket connections for low-latency and loss-tolerant scenarios in AIR 2 (Part 1)tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.380772009-11-17T09:00:00Z2009-11-17T09:00:00ZFlash player has supported socket connections for some time but has lacked UDP specific support. Although there was the recent addition of RTMFP (a protocol utilizing UDP to enable low latency data transfer and P2P connections) it doesn't provide direct...Ian McLeanhttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3870
Flash player has supported socket connections for some time but has lacked UDP specific support. Although there was the recent addition of RTMFP (a protocol utilizing UDP to enable low latency data transfer and P2P connections) it doesn't provide direct...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3870textAIR 2.0 and FP 10.1 now Available on Adobe Labstag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385232009-11-17T05:04:38Z2009-11-17T05:04:38ZThe Adobe AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 betas are now available on Adobe Labs. You can download AIR 2.0 directly from:
ttp://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/
You can download Flash Player 10.1 directly from:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/Andrew Tricehttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3436
The Adobe AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 betas are now available on Adobe Labs. You can download AIR 2.0 directly from:
ttp://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/
You can download Flash Player 10.1 directly from:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3436textFlex 101: Customize Scrollbarstag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385212009-11-17T02:17:31Z2009-11-17T02:17:31ZCustomizing scrollbars in Flex is something that I see requested all the time, and it's actually really easy to do. I see requests for things like getting rid of the buttons, or making the scroll bar less intrusive to the UI. In this post, we'll walk through some simple css style changes to customize scrollbar appearance.Andrew Tricehttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3436
Customizing scrollbars in Flex is something that I see requested all the time, and it's actually really easy to do. I see requests for things like getting rid of the buttons, or making the scroll bar less intrusive to the UI. In this post, we'll walk through some simple css style changes to customize scrollbar appearance.http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3436textFlex Template Components Rocktag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.384812009-11-16T20:00:00Z2009-11-16T20:00:00Z Flex comes with a full spectrum of components, but once in a while you get hit with a request to do something that is difficult to shoehorn into what already exists, but seems even more difficult to do as...Amy Blankenshiphttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3726
Flex comes with a full spectrum of components, but once in a while you get hit with a request to do something that is difficult to shoehorn into what already exists, but seems even more difficult to do as...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3726textQOW: Top open source Flex projectstag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.385142009-11-16T16:00:00Z2009-11-16T16:00:00Z Question of the week: Open source projects are extremely important to the growth of a development community. The Flex community has always had a large number of open source projects and libraries that have been contributions from both community...Rich Tretolahttp://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3426
Question of the week: Open source projects are extremely important to the growth of a development community. The Flex community has always had a large number of open source projects and libraries that have been contributions from both community...http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3426text