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 [...]

Apollo or XULRunner – And where’s WPF/E?

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 [...]

Flex 2.0 and Rails

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 [...]

Flex 2 Beta 2 out on labs

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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RIA Development at SFMMUF

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 [...]