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...
The majority of our poll respondents either create the design of applications themselves (over 55%) or they have an in house staff (over 35%) that creates the design. This is quite an overwhelming percentage. In fact there were only 3.5%...
qooxdoo has released a new version, http://qooxdoo.org. Here are some of the highlights of the brand new 0.8.2 release: * Inspector, a cross-browser debugging tool a la Firebug * Tons of improvements and bugfixes over the previous version * Tested...
Last week we asked if you have been a contributor to open source efforts. So, as a follow up, this week we would like to know if a product or software library that is open source makes it more likely...
The poll results show that over 50% of our responders contribute to open source projects at least once a year. If you look a little deeper, 35% contribute monthly, while 25% contribute weekly. So, those of you who stated that...
We're ready to extend the reach of the InsideRIA community beyond its home site, and can use your input. We're on Twitter--@InsideRIA--and will soon be adding a widget to the site that enables you to track InsideRIA-generated Tweets.
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This is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common... Continue Reading
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
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