O’Reilly: Inside RIA

In a move to have an online office suite, Adobe recently released Acrobat.com Presentations. This, paired together with Buzzword and the additional capabilites of acrobat.com provide Adobe with a compelling online suite of office productivity applications, powered by the Flash platform.

With all of the chatter lately about the renaming of Flex Builder to Flash Builder and the many ways of compiling SWF with the Adobe tools alone, Kevin Suttle and myself thought it would be interesting to see what other...

I am glad to see that only 6% of our respondents do not have any AIR applications currently installed, which means that 94% have at least 1 AIR application installed. The results show that 57% have between 1-5 AIR applications...

I am sitting here waiting for my departure a little early from the 360Flex in Indianapolis, disappointed that I have to miss some excellent sessions this afternoon. This was my first 360Flex but I will not be missing any in the future if I have a choice. The content was top-notch and this is by far the single best place to network with other Flex developers, including most of the prominent names you may know well already. Tom Ortega and John Wilker really put on a great show that mixes the best content of a typical conference with a very relaxed and informal feel that is enjoyable.

There are some great RIA conferences but if you don't live close to the events it can be tough to take advantage of them. Luckily there are a ton of User Groups (i.e. Adobe User Groups) to bring it closer...

Multi-Mania is a Belgium conference about multimedia and web: there is sessions about video, audio, web development, web design, 3D, game development, etc... It's Europe's biggest FREE multimedia fest ! Located in the nice city of Kortrijk, in the...

Adobe AIR (the desktop runtime allowing for the installation of applications built with Adobe Flash, Flex, or HTML) recently had a new addition to its showcase of applications when the NY Times introduced its new online reader application. So, my...

Yep, you heard correctly in association with the 360Conferences guys, InsideRIA is having its first conference August 23-24, 2009 in San Jose, CA at the eBay facilities. This 2-day event will into the nitty gritty of developing for the Rich Internet Application (RIA) space. Sunday will be hands-on workshops to get you familiar with a few of the RIA platforms. Monday will be a full day of sessions with 3 distinct tracks: Development, Design/User Experience and Business Development. All 3 tracks will be aimed at the RIA platform in general.

It appears that traditional media is in fact in huge trouble, at least when it comes to the InsideRIA audience. With over 85% if our respondents choosing either RSS (37%), Blogs (16%), Websites (27%) or Twitter (7%), it is pretty...

With the downturn in traditional media (newspapers, television) over the past few years, it seems like more and more people are getting there news from digital sources. This weeks poll would like to see how our audience gets its news....