O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Last month while on the On AIR Tour in Europe, Dion managed do a quick video chat in Munich. In this interview Dion and I chat about the new things happening in App Engine including opening it up and pricing. The Dion tells us about Google has started hosting the JavaScript files for certain Ajax libraries.

Alexei White just released NitobiBug, it's a handy little cross browser logging and object inspector. Think of FireBug but cross browser.

Aptana announced last week they're going to help developers deploy to the cloud, starting with Joyent's hosting services. So now Aptana is helping developers write JavaScript code with their IDE, run JavaScript and on the server with Jaxxer and now deploy their app to the web with the click of a button.

Steve Souders the creator of YSlow has now released Cuzillion which is essentially a page load simulation tool. Very cool for figuring the best way to structure your and in which order to load assets.

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.

In Part 1, I described my interview with Avi Muchnick of the Aviary team. I also described the features in Aviary now as well as some stuff that is coming in the future. Well, to be honest, talking about it is just not enough. I t decided to do a walk through of both Phoenix and Peacock so everyone can see the power of these Flex based applications.

This screencast will demonstrate how to use the Clipboard Explorer AIR application. This application can be used to experiment with Adobe AIR's clipboard support. As with all of the samples I will post here - 'View Source' is enabled and can be used by simply right clicking on the chrome of the application and selecting 'View Source'.

This screencast tutorial will take you through the complete cycle of building a Flex based AIR project with Flex Builder 3 Beta 3 from the creation of the project through the export to the AIR package.

This section will be the future home for screencasts dedicated to RIA Development. Got an idea for a topic you would like to see created as a screencasts on RIA Development? Please contact me at rtretola@oreilly.com....