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Microsoft integrates Silverlight, Rails and .NET

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June 2, 2008 | | Comments (7)
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Microsoft recently announced demos of two exciting Ruby on Rails developments. The first is a Silverlight application integrated with Ruby on Rails and the second is a demo of Microsoft's .NET Rails implementation, somewhat weirdly named "IronRuby." In this entry we'll discuss the announcement, Microsoft's implementation of Rails, and provide some resources for getting started in your own Rails education.

Flash Player 10 instructions, API

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May 22, 2008 | | Comments (3)
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If you don't follow Lee Brimelow's blog, you should. Lee posted the full Flash Player 10 API on his blog yesterday and has had some great posts on FP10 and how to use it lately. Lee works for Adobe as a Platform Evangelist and seems to be just full of great developer information.

GUIMark - a benchmarking tool for RIA technology

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May 22, 2008 | | Comments (0)
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Sean Christmann's spent the last two weeks developing a benchmark technology called GUIMark for investigating performance in Flash, Silverlight, Java and HTML. In this entry I describe some of the things he's learned and give more links to the different pages he's created for the project.

Touchless Brain-Sensor Interfaces

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May 20, 2008 | | Comments (2)
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The Graz Institute of Technology in Austria demos a new touchless interface system called Brain Loop that responds to user thoughts. This entry includes a video of Brain Loop in action narrated by a creepy computerized voice that doesn't allay my fears that this thing will turn us all into cyborgs one day, but some of you are probably into that sort of thing.

Flash 10 compiler released for Flex

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May 15, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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Ryan Stewart just sent me some information on compiling for the Flashplayer 10 in Flex. You can read the full report here on Adobe's open source site. It involves getting the latest nightly build of Flex 3 and updating your compiler to use the new PlayerGlobal.swc - not too difficult.

Adobe Announces Flash Player 10

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May 14, 2008 | | Comments (4)
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It's official folks - Flash Player 10 was announced about 4 minutes ago and is in Beta up on Adobe Labs. New features include native CPU and GPU acceleration for better performance, better graphics, native support for 3d, and much more. Read this entry to find a full list of new features and links to all the official release info.

Day of the Twitter

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May 14, 2008 | | Comments (5)
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Twitter is growing and evolving at a rapid pace. In this entry I'll look at some of the new ways people and businesses are using Twitter and discuss some new developments in the industry around Twitter that web application developers should consider.

Announcing the User Interface Resource Center

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May 9, 2008 | | Comments (5)
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I happy to announce the launch of a community resource center for user interfaces aptly title the User Interface Resource Center. The UIRC is a community driven site focused on providing interface resources and guidelines. Adobe and Microsoft are both partners, so this is sure to be big.

Flex 4, states, and bad MXML

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May 6, 2008 | | Comments (9)
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Ted Patrick has a post up on his blog about a new feature in Flex 4 that will allow for state-specific variables to be nested in individual components. Ted claims that in Flex 3 and below, States have been too hard to use and edit outside of the "design view" (someone uses the design view?), so an effort has been made to simplify them. In this entry I'll discuss his solution and provide an alternative way to handle states.

Adobe launches "Open Screen", opens SWF and FLV formats

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May 1, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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Announced on Ryan Stewart's blog and the Adobe Pressroom this morning is Adobe Open Screen: an initiative that involves not only releasing the SWF, FLV and FLV4 file format specifications, but also removes licensing restrictions around the next version of the AIR and Flash player.

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