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...
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Farata Systems has open sourced Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java. The latest builds and the source code of Clear Toolkit 3.1 are located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit/ . The current documentation, demos, user...
Everybody seems to want everything to be open source these days, but how many of you are actively contributing to the movement? To take part in this poll, please vote here. Also, if you are a contributor, please leave comments...
Well it looks like mobile isn't as popular with our readers as I had thought. Although many said that are not currently working on developing mobile applications, there was a large percent that said they believed they would be in...
With tens of thousands of applications being built for the many different mobile platforms, mobile development is a very hot topic right now. Whether you feel that mobile development is RIA or not, there is no doubt that it is...
The results of our poll seem to show that the economic problems have not effected those in our industry as much as those in other areas of work. Our poll results show that almost 40% of our readers have still...
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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