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Ben Longoria

Biography

Ben Longoria is an Academic Applications Developer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been developing with Flash since Flash 5, and Flex since the Flex 2 release. For the past 2 years he has also been developing Mozilla-powered applications. Ben has worked on a number of educational and academic projects including cross-platform applications targeting both the browser and the desktop. He takes an active role in interface and interaction design, and enjoys the challenge of creating usable software. In the past he has contributed to projects such as ActionStep, SWFObject, Mozpad, and Adobe's Flex Cookbook.

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Mozilla Thunderhead: A Language For User Interfaces

February 27 2009

By now most of us have seen the amazing work that Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith over at Mozilla have created. The incredible web-based code editor built from scratch using the HTML canvas tag. A project embedded in the Bespin... read more

Introducing TubeLoc: AS3/Flex YouTube Player API

February 12 2009

Almost a year ago the YouTube APIs and Tools team released the YouTube Player API. The SWF that exposed the player functionality was and still is written in ActionScript 2. To make this easier to use in ActionScript 3, there... read more

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 1

February 20 2008

In this series of articles I will be looking at why RIA developers should be interested in Mozilla. This is an important topic, especially if you're one of those wise and pragmatic developers who likes to pick the right tool for the job, which we all are right? Learning about… read more

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 2

February 20 2008

In the first part of this series I gave an introductory look at Mozilla, and started to answer the statement posed in the title. In this article we'll look at the various RIA technologies and runtimes that Mozilla has to offer. First we'll look at the building blocks, or what… read more

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 3

February 19 2008

In the previous two articles we looked at who Mozilla is, what technologies they have, and attempted to answer the statement in the title. To be well-rounded, we will look at some core issues that may be hampering adoption of Mozilla technologies, and what could help. read more

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