We would like to announce that next week a new series will be published on InsideRIA covering application development on the Facebook Platform based on the newly announced Adobe AS3 Library. This series will be authored by Mirza Hatipovic. Facebook...
Adobe and Facebook® just announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Flash and Facebook. A new officially AS3 library officially supported by Adobe and Facebook is a free and open source programming language library that is expected to be a complete resource supporting all Facebook application programming interfaces (APIs) including Facebook Connect.
To get a better understanding of our audience, we would like you to answer this simple question. In what area do you spend your most time working per week? To take part in this poll, please click here....
Roughly 75% of the respondents to this poll, answered yes, they would consider attending or participating in an online-only conference. Personally, I haven't done this yet, but I do attend many screen sharing online sessions so I can definitely see...
This month, O'Reilly and Adobe Developer Library are releasing the 13+-hour-long Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript Weekend, a two-part video series of some heft and ambition, the outcome (or logical extension, actually) of a longer, larger process. The back story may be of interest to some.
With travel budgets under constraint, some tech industry conferences are contemplating going online-only for their conferences. An example of this was Aral Balkan's <head> conference that occurred in Oct 2008. My experience with conferences has been that attending them is...
With over 300 votes counted, the results show PHP leading the way with almost 30% of the vote, followed by Java (19%), JavaScript (13%), ColdFusion (10%), C# (8%), and Ruby (7%). To me these results are not at all surprising...
Google recently released http://www.chromeexperiments.com/. It's a collection of Javascript-based experiments designed to show off the speed of the Google Chrome browser.
Recently O'Reilly's quarterly State of the Computer Book Market analysis - Part IV, Languages - was released. If book sales are any indication, ActionScript is now among the most popular languages. So, with our new poll question we would like...
If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading
Adobe just released public information about AIR 2.0 and added new capabilities that better tie with the operation systems which gives your application more control while increasing performance. The new version will be deployed on Flash player 10 using Flex... Continue Reading
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