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Spry 1.6.1 Released

Raymond Camden
February 25, 2008 | | Comments (3)
Raymond Camden
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A few days ago I mentioned that a new release from the Adobe Spry was on the way, and today it landed. Version 1.6.1 is branded as an AIR update, and many of the updates are directly in relation to support for running with AIR, but some pretty darn cool features were added to this release as well. This week I'm going to discuss these changes and show some examples.

Welcome Flex 3 and AIR 1.0

Rich Tretola
February 25, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Rich Tretola
Congratulations to both the Flex team and AIR team for their hard work over the past few years. Flex has undergone many personalities over the past 5 years, reinventing itself along the way. Those of you who remember Royale and...

ScienceLogic: Using Flex for Complex Data Visualization

Andrew Trice
February 22, 2008 | | Comments (8)
Andrew Trice
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One of the projects that I am actively involved with at Cynergy Systems has recently gone gold, and into production. This is a brief case study how Adobe Flex was used to visualize complex data relationships for computer network topologies for ScienceLogic's EM7 Network Management appliance

Spry update on the way

Raymond Camden
February 20, 2008 | | Comments (5)
Raymond Camden
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I'm a bit late in reporting this, but the Spry team blogged about their upcoming 1.7 release of Spry. I'm a huge fan of this Ajax framework, and it looks like some exciting new features are on the way.

Adobe on AIR Tour is Headed to Europe

Andre Charland
February 20, 2008 | | Comments (3)
Andre Charland
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The word is out, Adobe is taking the gang of evangelists, a few other AIR hackers and yours truly across the pond to Europe. We're going to be hitting 12 cities from Madrid to Stockholm this spring and summer. Each event will cover everything from basic AIR development in Flex, Flash and Ajax to advanced topics and cool demos. Like the North American tour I'm sure there will be food and drink provided.

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 1

Ben Longoria
February 20, 2008 | | Comments (1)
Ben Longoria
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In this series of articles I will be looking at why RIA developers should be interested in Mozilla. This is an important topic, especially if you're one of those wise and pragmatic developers who likes to pick the right tool for the job, which we all are right? Learning about the breadth of the technologies that Mozilla's projects cover can potentially save you a lot of work for your next project!

Flex Graphics Tricks Part 3: Graphics Filters

Andrew Trice
February 20, 2008 | | Comments (4)
Andrew Trice
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Here's the third installment of my mini-series on Flex graphics tricks. These do not only apply to Flex, they apply to Flash as well. My particular focus here is using graphics filters within a Flex application. Graphics filters allow you to perform bitmap-level effects on any DisplayObject... thus any object that can be displayed in Flex. Filters enable everything from blurs, glows, and dropshadows all the way to color processing, sharpening, and edge detection. This sounds very daunting, however they are really pretty easy to get started with.

Quick RIA and Web Development Survey

Andre Charland
February 19, 2008 | | Comments (1)
Andre Charland
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What flavor of RIA are you using? I'm doing a bit of research with the crew at Nitobi and we've put together a quick, informal survey about web design and development tools and platforms. It's only 14 short answer and multiple choice questions, and focuses on how designers and developers are adopting RIA technologies and tools.

LFFS - 2: Flex Defined

Adam Flater & Scott Sheridan
February 19, 2008 | | Comments (5)
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In this post we take a deeper look at what Flex is and what it can do. Our goal is to provide a clear picture of the environment in which you use Flex to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Fist, let's have a quick discussion about the nature of RIAs so that we can understand why we would want to use Flex in the first place.

ColdFusion and RIA Development - Part 2

Raymond Camden
February 18, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Raymond Camden
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In my last post, I discussed how ColdFusion aids RIA developers, both Flash/Flex as well as AJAX developers. I focused on serving data up to RIA consumers. In this entry, I'm going to discuss other Ajax features, most of which help out on the front end of your web site, an area ColdFusion has traditionally stayed away from (which makes sense as a back-end development platform).



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