O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Today, Adobe released the public beta version of LCDS 2.6 on labs. I see this as a pretty big release because we now have highly scalable streaming data available over port 80 using the HTTP protocol.

Adobe recently released the first public alpha version of the AIR runtime for Linux on labs. This is great news! I felt compelled to "geek out" with it, and was able to get AIR running on an Asus EeePC, although with a few minor issues.

This InsideRIA podcast is a behind the scenes look at Protagonize, a newly launched "choose your own adventure" and colobarative writing community site. Nick Bouton the creator joins me to talk about his experiences designing and developing this site.

I've expanded upon the ideas of my last post: "Degrafa + Datagrids = Visual Display of Data", and I'm continuing to explore data visualizations using Degrafa. This time, I've decided to tackle the sparkline.

NitroLM (Nitromation License Manager) is a commercial product developed by Simplified Logic, Inc. (SLI) for managing users, products, notifications, and source code protection for applications. It started off as an internal tool to protect SLI’s 3D engineering design and...

Organizing data into chunks is a fundamental part of our cognitive experience. The ability to understand individual items in terms of their membership within a group saves our brains an immense amount of processing power. Imagine the difficult time you'd have if, when you went to the grocery store, all of the things you needed to pick up were written on separate pieces of paper instead of on a nicely organized list. You could still get your shopping done, but it would be a real pain to shuffle through all those individual sheets! In addition, you'd have to make sure that all of those sheets really actually contained things you needed to pick up from the store, and not perhaps, things that you already had in your refrigerator. In other words, using an organized system that groups items together into meaningful lists saves you a lot of time and effort.

In this article, we’ll go over an example using Interfaces, Factories, and Encryption to protect code in a SWC library from being easily decompiled.

Sometimes it can be difficult to find quality resources to learn about all the functionality you need to know to build your rich internet application. Luckily, Adobe puts a great deal of effort into providing plenty of learning material for the community.

We were all wondering when Google was going to use Gears to take Google Docs offline. Well today is the day. I'm always a little bit surprised how long it takes some companies to implement their own technologies I'm always happy when they do. For I'm generally an early adopter so I win, but more importantly those underlying technologies improve for developers and everyone else.

In the RIA world, Flex and AIR applications have really taken off. With that has come increased adoption by Fortune 500 companies and new enterprise-level apps taking advantage of the Adobe Flash platform. Application and data security should always be a concern of the Flex/AIR developer. The level of paranoia the developer should implement must be weighed against the goals of the project.