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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Released
August 28 2008
Yesterday Microsoft released IE 8 Beta 2. It's likely the most anticipated release of the browser to date, for developers anyway. This is because they've done a lot to support CSS 2.1 and HTML 5 standards, which is everyone agrees is a good thing. It might not be perfect yet… read moreFlex 4, Thermo, Flash 10 and Degrafa at 360 Flex
August 25 2008
Ted Patrick just posted a screencast from Mark Anders where he gives a great overview of the roadmap for Flex 4 aka Gumbo , Flash Player 10, Degrafa and Thermo at 360 Flex. read moreVideo Based Enterprise Ajax Training
August 23 2008
Dave Johnson, Alexei White and I have finally completed our video training series on Ajax development for high performance and large scale Ajax UIs. We took the book, Enterprise Ajax, we wrote last year and then recorded just over 8hrs worth of Ajax training. Hopefully it's a bit easier for… read moreGoogle Provides Location to web and mobile apps
August 22 2008
Google announced 2 new ways to make your apps location aware yesterday. One's a web service that any web can take advantage the second is built into Google Gears, and runs on the mobile version of this plugin. read moreDesigner Resources for iPhone App Development
August 20 2008
It might be debatable whether a native app written Objective-C is an RIA, but most of the are internet connected at least part of the time and lots of the coolest iPhone apps I'm using run right in Safari on the iPhone. It's not however debatable whether or not iPhone… read moreAugust 02 2008
The second annual iPhoneDevCamp has just started here at the Adobe offices in San Franciso. There's about 300 people and I think most of them are planning to build an app or at least hack a little bit. The even runs from Friday night until Sunday night. The highlight of… read moreJuly 30 2008
I've been involved in web development for about 12 years now and have always been involved in the early stages and client facing aspects of the development cycle. More often than not I turned to very low-fi methods of sketching the early versions of a UI such as paper, whiteboard… read moreRibbit is Acquired by British Telecom
July 29 2008
Big news for one of the shining lights in the VOIP, Flex and AIR world this morning. Ribbit was acquired by BT. Ribbit has been acquired by BT one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services. This marks the most important day yet in Ribbit’s history. As… read moreOpen Source Code Licenses Review
July 18 2008
Grant Skinner has been thinking about and researching open sources licenses. I think this is timely blog post that everyone involved in software should take a look to get a quick high level understanding of the most popular open source licenses. read moreJuly 16 2008
In case you haven't been following there's been some buzz about Dreamweaver recently and the next version is drastically improved for today's web developer. Whether you're focused on design or interactive user interfaces with JavaScript you should definitely take a look and download the beta. They're going away from WYISYG… read moreFlex 4 (Gumbo) Available for Download
July 14 2008
The Flex 4 SDK, code named Gumbo, is up for download now. This is an exciting time for Flex, it's now 2 full versions beyond Flex 2 which was really the first version of Flex that gained mainstream adoption. Adobe is really working hard to get ready for the release… read moreAre there 10 Commandments of Web Design?
July 11 2008
I always find it interesting when the web design practice gets a little more attention from the broader business industry. And that's exactly what BusinessWeek has done, they've interviewed a group of web design luminaries to come up with a list of the top 10 rules web designers should follow.… read moreGoogle Hosting Ajax and App Engine Update
July 09 2008
Last month while on the On AIR Tour in Europe, Dion managed do a quick video chat in Munich. In this interview Dion and I chat about the new things happening in App Engine including opening it up and pricing. The Dion tells us about Google has started hosting the… read moreTop Ajax Frameworks for High Traffic Sites
June 26 2008
Web monitoring company, Pingdom, decided the to look into the most popular Ajax frameworks. "The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit. We quickly saw… read morePodcast: YUI with Nate Koechley
June 26 2008
In this episode I get an overview of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI ) from Nate Koechley. We cover topics including how Nate got started there, the various elements in YUI, why Yahoo builds and maintains this library. We also touched on some of the more unique elements of… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
