O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Curl releases beta 2 of Curl version 7 (a.k.a. Nitro)

Attention AIR developers, if you haven't yet contributed to the AIR cookbook, it is not too late. You could still contribute and win a fantastic prize. The deadline for entries is September 26, 2008. To contribute please visit http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/?navID=cookbook

Alan Cooper is an experienced software developer and interaction designer who's been around for a while. He runs a consulting firm, writes a lot of books, and is called the "father of Visual Basic." Alan Cooper has been on the forefront of experience design and software development for a while now. He's been in the trenches, seen what works and what doesn't, and now he's decided to share some of his experience on software process and why Agile software is best. Cooper was asked to deliver a keynote at the recent Agile 2008 conference, held in Toronto earlier this August. His slides with accompanying notes are available on his website, and make a really great presentation both for those already converted to agile methods and those who've heard the term but don't really know what it's about.

It's been all over the blog world today... Google's chrome. Well, it is finally out, and it can be downloaded here.

Google is going to release its own open source web browser called, Google Chrome.

The Rich Web Experience conference is happening this week in Washington D.C. and next week in San Jose. It's going to be a great learning experience!

Curl has made its professional web-based training courses available for free.

As I am sure many of you have heard ECMAScript 4.0 has officially been killed in favor of ECMAScript 3.1 (Harmony). Since Adobe has based much of ActionScript 3 on the now defunct ES4 proposal, we would like to see...

Day 1 of 360Flex has come and gone. Here are some of the highlights from the sessions I was able to attend.

As of yesterday, 360Flex is on! Yesterday was a preliminary day of training classes and "how-to" sessions. Conference organizer John Wilker told me this year's preliminary day was the widest attended ever, with over 200 of the 400 attendees coming in early to learn a little Flex. The Flex 101 class was completely full, and Ben Stucki's intro to Open Flux was standing-room only. Today the conference swings into full speed with all of the regular speaking sessions. I'll be posting regular updates on the sessions I attend, so check back regularly if you're interested. We've got good weather so far out here in San Jose and it promises to be an exciting few days.