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Interview with the JavaFX Team
August 27 2008
I recently had the chance to chat with JavaFX team members Josh Marinacci and Jacob Lehrbaum on a conference call. I had the chance to ask them all of the questions that you guys submitted here on the site. The interview is 25 minutes and the guys cover everything from the… read moreThe Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 23
August 23 2008
This week saw a Flex refresh, JavaScript's jump to light speed, a comment battle on Flex and Silverlight, a look at Project Nile, and some great tips on getting started with Silverlight. read moreThe Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 16
August 17 2008
This week brought the death of ECMAScript 4 as we know it, a preview release of YUI 3, a behind the scenes look at NBC's online olympics coverage, and did we mention ECMAScript 4 (it was worth mentioning twice)? read moreThe Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 9
August 10 2008
This week brought Silverlight's big opening ceremony, Curl jumps into Eclipse, Cairngorm goes open, mapping takes a giant leap forward with SpatialKey, and the first episode of the Open Web podcast. read moreAugust 06 2008
Last week's release of the JavaFX Preview SDK brought a lot of buzz from all over the RIA landscape. There was a lot of good information, and many people admitted they still didn't know a great deal about JavaFX. So, here is your chance. We are going to compile a… read moreThe Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 2
August 03 2008
The week on the Weekly RIA Round-Up we bring a new competitor to the RIA lineup with JavaFX, Silverlight counts down the days until its big show, Adobe lends Zend a helping hand, a collection of Silverlight tutorials are released, and OpenLaszlo connects with Netbeans. read moreWhat is the JavaFX Preview SDK
July 31 2008
JavaFX launched their technical preview today. I had the privilege to talk earlier this week with Joshua Marinacci one of the engineers working on JavaFX. I learned that the preview SDK that was released today is just a piece of the overall JavaFX puzzle. read moreThe Weekly RIA Round-Up for July 26
July 26 2008
This week we saw an S3 outage that crippled many web applications, a new foundation to keep data open, OSCON 2008, Silverlight flexes its gaming credentials, and Desktop Keeley breaking some records. read moreJuly 22 2008
I had a chance several weeks ago to sit down with Digimix creator, Alan Queen, and discuss the RIA that he has been developing. I had seen an earlier version of DigiMix at the Adobe onAir Bus Tour in Atlanta, and I was amazed at the progress that has been… read moreFlypaper Pro Launches the Presentation Dashboard
July 22 2008
I had a chance today to chat with the people at Flypaper about the new Pro version that is being released today. If you haven't heard of Flypaper it is an application and player that allows you to create interactive presentations with their desktop authoring application and then easily publish… read moreThe Weekly RIA Round-Up for July 19
July 19 2008
This week Radiohead captivated the online community, the Flex 4 SDK gets its first public build, Bruce Eckel questions Sun's UI credentials, and an Adobe Evangelist compares Flex and Silverlight. All this and more on the Weekly RIA Round-Up. read moreNew AIR Resource for Flash Developers
July 14 2008
My recent Lynda.com series, AIR for Flash Developers, was recently released in the Lynda.com Online Training Library. In this series, I cover most all of the AIR API and how to integrate it with your Flash files. As I stated on my blog, this series is not for everyone. It… read moreThe Weekly RIA Round-Up for July 12
July 13 2008
Another week has passed in the RIA community, and with it - a lot of news. I will cover items such as the launch of Lively, the future of Facebook as an RIA platform, Silverlight and Flash video codecs, and a lot more. Also, this week you now have the… read moreJuly 05 2008
Today starts what will be a weekly column here at InsideRIA.com. I will be examining all of the blog posts that I read over the week - and bringing out the highlights in all of the different RIA communities. Obviously, I won't be able to highlight everything - so, we… read moreWhy I Purchased an Adobe ColdFusion License
July 01 2008
The past few months have brought about a lot of debate in the ColdFusion community, and I have been listening. Why? Well, I knew that I was going to need to deploy a CFML server for a project. The recent announcements meant that I needed to reconsider all of the… read more
