O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Last week Palm released the Pre, which uses Palm's new webOS platform (based on HTML, CSS & JavaScript). Since webOS is using very familiar languages to many developers, we assume that there would be a high interest in developing for...

I fully admit that this was a poll that was really kind of unfair as many of us (including myself) have not really seen much of Google Wave yet outside of a video from I/O. With that being the case,...

Union is a development platform for creating multiuser applications. It includes the Union Server, a multiuser communications server, and Reactor, a framework for creating Adobe Flash client applications. I recently had the opportunity to discuss the new Union Platform project with Colin Moock who is one of the creators of this new platform. Here are the questions that I asked of him.

Google Wave was all over the news last week when it was first shown at Google I/O. So, we thought it would be interesting to see if you care about Google Wave and, if so, which piece in particular you...

Well, it certainly appears that accessibility in RIA development is not a concern for many developers for one reason or another. We had a very small showing for this poll and of those who did respond, only a handful said...

Accessibility is something that we all know is important when developing content for the Internet, however it is also something that has frequently been left out of a project development due to time constraints, technology challenges, or budgeting issues. I...

Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst are now officially available to the masses. Yes, the public beta has begun at http://labs.adobe.com/. Want to learn more about these new products? Check out our new features published today: Overview of Flex 4...

It appears that the InsideRIA audience is very Flex centric when it comes to developing Flash content as over 40% of the respondents chose Flex Builder 3 as their tool of choice for creating SWF. Flash Develop came in at...

I have had many inquiries from those who wish to speak at the inaugural InsideRIA conference. I am now happy to announce that the call for papers is now open. For more information please visit the http://www.insideriacon.com. One thing to note is that due to price and length of the show, there has been no budget allocated for speaker travel or hotel. Please keep this in mind when submitting topics. If you don’t mind paying your own way though, we’ll consider your submission. With only 20ish slots, we were planning on a local speaker base. However, we won’t turn away non-locals who understand this limitation, yet still want to be part of this inaugural edition of the event.

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...