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An interview with KitchenSync creator, Mims Wright

RJ Owen
September 25, 2008 | | Comments (0)
RJ Owen
KitchenSync is an up-and-coming ActionScript 3.0 library for sequencing animations and other time-based actions. The project is focused on giving developers a smarter way to handle animation or other time-based, rather than frame-based, functionality with code. The whole project is geared towards using standard OO practices to make time-based synchronization easier on developers. Creator Mims Wright recently announced a Kitchen Sync demo contest which has generated some buzz around my office and got me interested in the project. The winners will have their entries demoed at the upcoming <head> conference. I recently caught up with Mims and had the opportunity to ask him some questions about the project. If you haven't heard of Mims before, he's a great developer who co-authored the Actionscript 3.0 Bible and has done a lot of great Flash work in his career. Mim's is a really friendly guy and agreed to an interview about KitchenSync.

Mobile + Web + Desktop = Platform

Andrew Trice
September 24, 2008 | | Comments (1)
Andrew Trice
If you've been living under a rock this week, you may not have heard that the first phone using Google's Android platform was released to the public. This is the first significant competitor to the iPhone. Neither the iPhone or Android is the first mobile computing, communications and entertainment appliance; this is a growing space, and undoubtedly the choice of technology and platform will be more of a hot button topic in the years to come.

Fun comparisons of Flex and Silverlight

Richard Monson-Haefel
September 23, 2008 | | Comments (13)
Richard Monson-Haefel
A gallery of applications comparing Flash and Silverlight is both fun and enlightening! See Flash and Silverlight applications doing the same animations side-by-side and see the source code as well!

Adobe CS4 Gets Release Date, Cool Website

RJ Owen
September 23, 2008 | | Comments (3)
RJ Owen
Early this morning Adobe announced that the latest edition of Creative Suite, number 4, will be released in October. I've been told that Adobe is currently targeting a release on the 15th, but that the date is subject to change. Read on to learn more about CS4, or checkout the the CS4 homepage.

The Weekly RIA RoundUp for September 22

David Tucker
September 22, 2008 | | Comments (0)
David Tucker
The Weekly RIA RoundUp for September 22

This week, Adobe and Zend extend their partnership, Gears is released for Safari, Adobe AIR for Linux is upgraded to Beta, and Jesse Liberty creates a Silverlight application in 20 minutes. All this and more on the Weekly RIA Roundup from InsideRIA.

Adobe and Zend Framework Poll

Rich Tretola
September 22, 2008 | | Comments (5)
Rich Tretola
PHP currently accounts for roughly 20 million websites and is used by over 25,000 businesses. Adobe Flex which compiles to SWF, runs on the Flash Player which is has historically had the most installations of any piece of software ever....

Using Trac? Try Traction.

RJ Owen
September 18, 2008 | | Comments (9)
RJ Owen
If you've ever used Trac to track tickets for feature requests, bug fixes, or tasks, then you've probably been frustrated. Trac integrates well with SVN, allowing you to close or reference tickets in your SVN checkins and easily see the source each checkin adjusted, but it has an absolutely terrible UI. Terrible. Horrible, bad, very awful - one of the worst things I've had to deal with since becoming a UI developer. Enter Traction. Traction is an AIR application written by Greg Owen (yup, we're related) that replaces Trac's front-end with something easier to use. It allows you to edit multiple tickets at once and aggregates the changes periodically. If you're a project lead or a project manager responsible for managing tickets, Traction is for you.

SlideRocket now in Public Beta

David Tucker
September 18, 2008 | | Comments (0)
David Tucker
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SlideRocket is an online RIA that provides functionality for creating, distributing, and collaborating on presentations. We previously discussed SlideRocket here on InsideRIA when it was in private beta. Today, SlideRocket announced that they are now in public beta, which means that you can now sign up for an account.

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AMF vs. JSON vs. XML

Richard Monson-Haefel
September 18, 2008 | | Comments (8)
Richard Monson-Haefel
Which RPC protocol is the best: XML over HTTP, JSON, or AMF. It depends on the context and the platform

Great Changes in the Weekly RIA RoundUp

David Tucker
September 15, 2008 | | Comments (0)
David Tucker

If you haven't noticed, the Weekly RIA RoundUp has changed in the last few weeks. First, the article is now available as a podcast. This allows you to keep in touch with everything that is going on in the world of Rich Internet Applications in just 5 minutes each week. Second, the RIA RoundUp is now published on Mondays instead of the weekend.

More changes will be coming the weeks ahead, so be sure to stay tuned. As always, please let us know if there is something we can do to make this even better.




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