I just got back from the annual Feweb event, this year I was scheduled in the Rich Internet Applications track to do a Flash versus Javascript battle with none other than Peter-Paul Koch, moderated by Gijs Van Essche. Despite our sincere efforts it was difficult to find fault with the two technologies since they complement read more
I’m really happy to finally be able to announce a project I’ve been working on for a little while now — www.riajobs.org. A job board targeted at Rich Internet Application developers from various backgrounds be it Flash, Flex, AJAX or Silverlight. Of course there are already great community resources available for those looking for Flash, read more
I arrived about an hour late at JavaPolis thanks to some impressive traffic jam on the way to Antwerp but am glad I did manage to catch most of Sang Shin’s “Introduction to AJAX“. He discussed several frameworks and did a demo for each — from Dojo through jMaki and DWR (Direct Web Remoting) to read more
I unfortunately didn’t have the chance to do detailed reviews for each of the sessions I attended at MAX Barcelona (15 minute breaks between sessions just isn’t enough) but here is a list of the sessions I attended and a mini-review for each. The Google Analytics Reporting Suite – Nico Lierman, Wim Vanhenden Flash Lite read more
James Ward, Flex evangelist at Adobe, did an interesting talk on Flash, Flex and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications at Google earlier this month.
Adobe has just released a prerelease of Spry, a set of JavaScript libraries that leverage XML and XPath for easily creating interactive web pages and applications.
What I particularly like about it is that it integrates nicely with your HTML content, no funky scripting is required. Just include the JavaScript libraries, specify an XML dataset and create a dynamic region. You can set up repeating regions, sort and filter data without much hassle.
Hope to find some time this weekend to look into it some more and build an actual application!
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