Aptana have just released version 1.0 of their eclipse based IDE for HTML / AJAX development. It comes in two flavours - Community Studio and Professional Studio (one free - Community Studio, one not - Professional Studio). So it seemed like an ideal time to put to paper, so to speak, something that I have […]
Adobe announced last night that they will be offering Flex Builder 2.0 at no cost to students and faculties. This is a very shrewd move and may help nip Microsoft’s continued steam-rolling of Silverlight into the mass market in the bud in the interim. Plus of course it will create new generation of Flex developers […]
Hot off the press. Adobe UK are heading out onto the road to do their countrywide Creative License Tour. The tour consists of 6 tracks over the day in 9 locations (London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Dublin and Belfast).
So all in all a pretty comprehensive line-up of products. To find out more and […]
Hot on the heels of Fauxto, we have another photo editing RIA. Again built in Flash (although more likely Flex). Picnik allows you to upload images and perform various functions upon them via the “Edit” tab: Cropping, resizing, red-eye, color and rotating.
There is an additional tab “Creative Tools” which looks like it has potential. Currently […]
I came across a few interesting articles and documents recently and it got me thinking more about Apollo. As most of us are already aware Apollo is a runtime in development at Adobe allowing the deployment of Flash platform, HTML and or PDF applications onto the desktop. Thus allowing them to operate just like native […]
Anyone interested in using Flex 2.0 beta with Ruby on Rails should head over to my good friend Stu Eccles Rails blog and check out his tutorial on setting up a Flex 2.0 and Rails application.
I’d recommend having a browse through his blog as there is some good information there. Oh and if you […]
Well no sooner do we have beta 1 of Flex 2.0 then along comes another. Check out Adobe Labs for the beta 2 release of Flex 2.0.
Eric Anderson has an article on the Adobe (formerly Macromedia) site about Flex 2.0 beta 2, but a few of the key points are below:
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Well even though I’m technically on holiday I did get time to do a talk at the SFMMUF on Tuesday night about RIA Development and some of the ‘gotchas’ I’ve encountered while working on my current project. I’m mid way through getting those pointers to watch out for onto papar, but once they are in […]