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Category Archives: Flex
Debugging RIA Services
Introduction This is a call to action to everyone building clients, servers and frameworks for rich internet applications (RIAs) to improve the life of RIA developers by improving the debugging of backend services RIAs depend on. I’d like to thank … Continue reading
Posted in Flex
Tagged Adobe Flex, AJAX, AJAX debugging, AMF, ColdFusion, debugging, FireBug, FirePHP, FlashRemoting, Flex, Flex Builder, Flex debugging, FlexDebugPanel, Microsoft Fiddler, Mike Nimer, RIA, RIA debugging, Rich Internet application, RoR, Ruby on Rails, ServiceCapture, SOAP
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Flash vs. AJAX is The Wrong Question
Following my post on the Flex 3 and AIR launch, a number of you have pinged me privately about the Flash vs. AJAX question. It goes something like this: “I know you are going to write that you prefer Flash/Flex because … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Flex, Mobile, Web 2.0
Tagged Adobe, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, AJAX, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Macromedia Flash, Mobile, Mobile Web 2.0, Web 2.0
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Adobe Engage 2008 To Launch Flex 3.0 and AIR
Tomorrow, at the invitation-only Engage 2008 event in SF Adobe will launch AIR and Flex 3.0. If you want to get a sense of what will be shown, here are the slides from the January pre-release tour. The event has … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Facebook, Flex, Google, Microsoft, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Adobe, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex 3, AIR, AJAX, Allurent, Engage 2008, Facebook, Flex, Flex 3, Flex Builder, Google, Industry News, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft, startups, Web 2.0
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Adobe Engage
I’m in SF this week to attend Adobe Engage on Tuesday, a private all-day “influence the influencers” event. The focus is on the Adobe platform, encompassing both online and enterprise technologies. (I don’t think the Mobile group will be represented–they … Continue reading
Bigger May Be Better for Secure Scripting
On the topic of security as a competitive advantage, a recent Evans Data survey of scripting environments puts ActionScript and Adobe Flex on top. ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas) is in second place. The open-source projects are, unsurprisingly, rated lower. It’s hard to get … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Flex, Microsoft, Web 2.0
Tagged Adobe, Flex, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft, opensource, Security, Web 2.0
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MAXimum Burn
I haven’t posted in nearly two weeks because I’m still recovering from Adobe MAX 2006. Yes, it was in Vegas and, yes, the Macromedians (at least) know how to party till very early in the morning. Plus, two of my … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Flex, Mobile, SaaS
Tagged Adobe, Adobe MAX, Flex, Industry News, Macromedia Flash, Mobile, SaaS
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Flash Apollo Demo
Well, it’s funny I wrote about Web vs. Desktop apps earlier today because a Flex Evangelist from Adobe (Ted Patrick) just demoed a cool Apollo app. Apollo is the result of integrating a number of threads of work that have … Continue reading
Posted in Flex, Web 2.0
Tagged Flex, FutureOfWebApps-SF06, Macromedia Flash, Web 2.0
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The trouble with Ruby
Yakov Fain, a Java & Flash/Flex guru, notes that Ruby is climbing up the Tiobe Index and spends some time looking into why this this is the case. I like Ruby but I don’t see it becoming a mainstream language … Continue reading