RIA Development
Should Adobe buy Aptana?
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 Flex Builder 2.0 free for students
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 [...]
Adobe UK – The Creative License Tour
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 [...]
Picnik – Another Image Editing RIA
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 [...]
