tag:www.insideria.com,2008-01-13://34 2008-07-04T03:45:25Z InsideRIA.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 4.1 tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24325 2008-07-04T03:26:18Z 2008-07-04T03:45:25Z

I have no doubt that nearly everyone is familiar with the phrase "the right tool for the job" when it applies to construction. Well, that same adage applies directly to computer software and especially RIAs.

Andrew Trice I have no doubt that nearly everyone is familiar with the phrase "the right tool for the job" when it applies to construction. Well, that same adage applies directly to computer software and especially RIAs. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24317 2008-07-03T17:35:17Z 2008-07-03T17:54:44Z

ILOG has launched a preview program for version 2.0 of their popular Elixir toolset. Whether you've been a fan of Elixir or you're a flex n00b looking for some sweet charting components, this program is for you. Elixir also has some new lower price points for developers who don't work for big companies with big budgets.

RJ Owen ILOG has launched a preview program for version 2.0 of their popular Elixir toolset. Whether you've been a fan of Elixir or you're a flex n00b looking for some sweet charting components, this program is for you. Elixir also has some new lower price points for developers who don't work for big companies with big budgets. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24283 2008-07-02T14:00:00Z 2008-07-01T15:46:14Z

Lovely Charts is an application built in Adobe Flex for diagramming wire frames, interaction diagrams, UML, and just about anything else you can think of. It's one of the best and most complete user experiences I've seen in Flex, a close second to Buzzword, and really show cases the power of Flex. I had the opportunity to exchange a few emails with Lovely Charts creator Jérôme Cordiez and learned some fascinating things about Lovely Charts. Jérôme shared with me a little more about the vision and process he followed to build Lovely Charts, and why Flex was a necessary technology in that process

RJ Owen Lovely Charts is an application built in Adobe Flex for diagramming wire frames, interaction diagrams, UML, and just about anything else you can think of. It's one of the best and most complete user experiences I've seen in Flex, a close second to Buzzword, and really show cases the power of Flex. I had the opportunity to exchange a few emails with Lovely Charts creator Jérôme Cordiez and learned some fascinating things about Lovely Charts. Jérôme shared with me a little more about the vision and process he followed to build Lovely Charts, and why Flex was a necessary technology in that process tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24288 2008-07-01T13:30:58Z 2008-07-01T20:29:56Z

The past few months have brought about a lot of debate in the ColdFusion community, and I have been listening. Why? Well, I knew that I was going to need to deploy a CFML server for a project. The recent announcements meant that I needed to reconsider all of the CFML options: Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, Open BlueDragon, and Smith.

David Tucker http://www.davidtucker.net/ The past few months have brought about a lot of debate in the ColdFusion community, and I have been listening. Why? Well, I knew that I was going to need to deploy a CFML server for a project. The recent announcements meant that I needed to reconsider all of the CFML options: Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, Open BlueDragon, and Smith. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24284 2008-07-01T04:22:27Z 2008-07-01T13:40:10Z

Adobe announced this evening that they're working with Yahoo and Google to make Flash content more searchable. Both companies have been given a special version of the flash player that can crawl swfs and automatically perform every action a user might, from clicking buttons to entering text in text areas to dragging and moving interactive controls.

RJ Owen Adobe announced this evening that they're working with Yahoo and Google to make Flash content more searchable. Both companies have been given a special version of the flash player that can crawl swfs and automatically perform every action a user might, from clicking buttons to entering text in text areas to dragging and moving interactive controls. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.23517 2008-06-29T16:00:00Z 2008-06-28T14:29:43Z

The DataTable component allows us to display and manipulate tabular data. It can be used to enhance an existing HTML table, produce one based on data fetched from a remote data source in JSON, XML or CSV format or a local (client side) source in a few more formats.

Daniel Barreiro The DataTable component allows us to display and manipulate tabular data. It can be used to enhance an existing HTML table, produce one based on data fetched from a remote data source in JSON, XML or CSV format or a local (client side) source in a few more formats. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24270 2008-06-28T16:03:30Z 2008-06-28T16:30:15Z

In April I covered a simple scheduling RIA called When Is Good. I got really excited about the simplicity with which they approach scheduling a meeting - everyone gets online, clicks a single url, selects the times they're available, and the organizer gets a simple view of what time works for everyone. There's no login and no mess - just a very simple UI that everyone understands. Since that posting the application has gone through a slight overhaul. It was originally a Flex app and has now been ported to HTML, with a few feature enhancements baked in. I spoke with one of the developers about the decision to port the application to HTML.

RJ Owen In April I covered a simple scheduling RIA called When Is Good. I got really excited about the simplicity with which they approach scheduling a meeting - everyone gets online, clicks a single url, selects the times they're available, and the organizer gets a simple view of what time works for everyone. There's no login and no mess - just a very simple UI that everyone understands. Since that posting the application has gone through a slight overhaul. It was originally a Flex app and has now been ported to HTML, with a few feature enhancements baked in. I spoke with one of the developers about the decision to port the application to HTML. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24260 2008-06-26T23:11:14Z 2008-06-26T23:15:25Z

In this episode I get an overview of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI ) from Nate Koechley. We cover topics including how Nate got started there, the various elements in YUI, why Yahoo builds and maintains this library. We also touched on some of the more unique elements of Yahoo's offering for JavaScript developers including their integration with Flash, the Yahoo Pattern Library and how Yahoo plans to get more open source with their code.

Andre Charland http://www.nitobi.com In this episode I get an overview of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI ) from Nate Koechley. We cover topics including how Nate got started there, the various elements in YUI, why Yahoo builds and maintains this library. We also touched on some of the more unique elements of Yahoo's offering for JavaScript developers including their integration with Flash, the Yahoo Pattern Library and how Yahoo plans to get more open source with their code. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24040 2008-06-26T16:36:48Z 2008-06-26T22:01:47Z

Web monitoring company, Pingdom, decided the to look into the most popular Ajax frameworks. "The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit. We quickly saw that Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit were not used at all by these sites, which lead us to focus on the other four in this article."

Andre Charland http://www.nitobi.com Web monitoring company, Pingdom, decided the to look into the most popular Ajax frameworks. "The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit. We quickly saw that Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit were not used at all by these sites, which lead us to focus on the other four in this article." tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24224 2008-06-25T00:24:18Z 2008-06-25T01:05:24Z

While there has recently been an increase in the buzz regarding frameworks, design patterns, and MVC architectures, they really are not new concepts. In fact, the MVC design pattern has probably been around longer than a number of the people actively reading this blog.

Andrew Trice While there has recently been an increase in the buzz regarding frameworks, design patterns, and MVC architectures, they really are not new concepts. In fact, the MVC design pattern has probably been around longer than a number of the people actively reading this blog. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24139 2008-06-23T04:00:12Z 2008-06-24T23:56:39Z

Having covered the finer points of installing Flex Builder last time, both in it's standalone form and as a plugin, we'll now focus on making sense of the work environment within Flex Builder. Novice Flex users should expect to take away from this article an understanding of the organizational structure of the Flex development environment within Flex Builder 3, as well as an appreciation for the power of the Flex Builder workbench.

Adam Flater and Scott Sheridan Having covered the finer points of installing Flex Builder last time, both in it's standalone form and as a plugin, we'll now focus on making sense of the work environment within Flex Builder. Novice Flex users should expect to take away from this article an understanding of the organizational structure of the Flex development environment within Flex Builder 3, as well as an appreciation for the power of the Flex Builder workbench. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24034 2008-06-21T14:00:00Z 2008-06-18T17:36:23Z

Obsessing.org is a new online development site that lets you code and render Processing applications in the browser. The site is listed as "very alpha" right now, with new features being added every day. Most recently they added the ability to save and recall your sketches, making Obsessing a viable tool for anyone interested in Processing and not just us web-based dabblers.

RJ Owen Obsessing.org is a new online development site that lets you code and render Processing applications in the browser. The site is listed as "very alpha" right now, with new features being added every day. Most recently they added the ability to save and recall your sketches, making Obsessing a viable tool for anyone interested in Processing and not just us web-based dabblers. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24073 2008-06-20T17:00:00Z 2008-06-20T16:46:21Z

This is the first installment in the diary of an entrepreneur/developer (developeur?) on a mission to build the world's first global web conference. The premise for the Singularity web conference is simple: instead of making you come to the conference, let's make the conference come to you. Let's build a conference that is at once global and local. And, let's make sure that we do not lose sight of the key aspects that we love about conferences: the social interactions, the conversations, the sense of community, the exchange of knowledge, and the forging of new friendships and opportunities. Join Aral Balkan as he chronicles his experiences, as well as those of his friends, as they build the Singularity web conference web site and RIA. The focus of the series will be on developing with web standards and progressive enhancement with Google App Engine, Python, Django, Flex, ActionScript, Flash Media Interactive Server and some cutting-edge APIs like Yahoo GeoPlanet.

Aral Balkan http://aralbalkan.com This is the first installment in the diary of an entrepreneur/developer (developeur?) on a mission to build the world's first global web conference. The premise for the Singularity web conference is simple: instead of making you come to the conference, let's make the conference come to you. Let's build a conference that is at once global and local. And, let's make sure that we do not lose sight of the key aspects that we love about conferences: the social interactions, the conversations, the sense of community, the exchange of knowledge, and the forging of new friendships and opportunities. Join Aral Balkan as he chronicles his experiences, as well as those of his friends, as they build the Singularity web conference web site and RIA. The focus of the series will be on developing with web standards and progressive enhancement with Google App Engine, Python, Django, Flex, ActionScript, Flash Media Interactive Server and some cutting-edge APIs like Yahoo GeoPlanet. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24067 2008-06-20T02:18:48Z 2008-06-20T13:10:29Z

Continuing on with my recent trend of posts related to data visualization and web based mapping, this time I've decided to have some fun and combine the two with the visualization of geographic data.

Andrew Trice Continuing on with my recent trend of posts related to data visualization and web based mapping, this time I've decided to have some fun and combine the two with the visualization of geographic data. tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.24045 2008-06-18T18:59:02Z 2008-06-18T20:22:25Z

As I write, the CFUnited 2008 conference is underway in Washington, DC. This morning's keynote from Adobe brought out some really great details about ColdFusion 9 and how the new ColdFusion / Flex / AIR integration will play out. I am not present at CFUnited this year, but I have compiled some of the details. If you are a Flex / AIR developer who hasn't considered ColdFusion - you might want to reconsider upon the release of ColdFusion 9.

David Tucker http://www.davidtucker.net/ As I write, the CFUnited 2008 conference is underway in Washington, DC. This morning's keynote from Adobe brought out some really great details about ColdFusion 9 and how the new ColdFusion / Flex / AIR integration will play out. I am not present at CFUnited this year, but I have compiled some of the details. If you are a Flex / AIR developer who hasn't considered ColdFusion - you might want to reconsider upon the release of ColdFusion 9.