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O'Reilly Answers is an excellent resource for getting information about everything technology related. We also suggest that you share your knowledge at the O'Reilly Answers site and help the new members of the development community grow into future leaders in our industry.

Adobe Developer Connection is another fantastic resource for Adobe technologies and has a huge repository of information on Adobe's RIA tools like Flash, Flex, AIR, etc. If you haven't been reading the great content available at the ADC, we definitely suggest you check it out.

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Head First HTML5 Programming Head First HTML5 Programming
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Jonathan Stark Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

Lyza Danger Gardner Lyza Danger Gardner has built, broken and hacked web things since 1996.

Cliff Hall Cliff Hall has been developing software professionally since the early 1980s. He is the author of the PureMVC framework and owner of Futurescale, Inc., where he consults as a business software architect specializing in Adobe Flex and AIR.

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Beautiful Buttons for Bootstrap -- cute little button creator, with sliders for hue, saturation, and "puffiness". CMU iPad Course -- iTunes U has the video lectures for a CMU intro to iPad programming. Inspiring Matter -- the conference aims to bring together designers, scientists, artists and humanities people working with materials research and innovation to talk about how they...

Four short links: 1 February 2012

By Nat Torkington
February 1, 2012

Cycles of Invention and Commoditisation (Simon Wardley) -- Explosions of industrial creativity rarely follow the invention or discovery of a technology but instead its commoditisation i.e. it wasn't the discovery of electricity but Edison's introduction of utility services for electricity that produced the creative boom that led to recorded music, modern movies, consumer electronics and even Silicon Valley. However,...

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About

You have arrived at this page because InsideRIA is no longer an active website, as of January 31, 2011. While we're sad to see the change, we think you will find the resources and community here at oreilly.com helpful.

An archive of the material previously posted on InsideRIA can be found at DevelopRIA.com.

O'Reilly Answers is an excellent resource for getting information about everything technology related. We also suggest that you share your knowledge at the O'Reilly Answers site and help the new members of the development community grow into future leaders in our industry.

Adobe Developer Connection is another fantastic resource for Adobe technologies and has a huge repository of information on Adobe's RIA tools like Flash, Flex, AIR, etc. If you haven't been reading the great content available at the ADC, we definitely suggest you check it out.

You'll find more RIA-related content and resources on this page.

If you have questions or comments, feel free to send them to feedback@insideria.com and we will get back to you.

RIA Books & Videos

Many of our books are available as Ebook Bundles — your bookshelf on your devices! And don't forget, you can Buy 2 books, get the 3rd FREE! Use discount code: OPC10 See details.

Bestselling


JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual
by David Sawyer McFarland
Second Edition
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99
Bundle: $43.99

JavaScript: The Good Parts JavaScript: The Good Parts
by Douglas Crockford
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $32.99

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
by David Flanagan
Sixth Edition
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99
Bundle: $54.99

Head First HTML5 Programming Head First HTML5 Programming
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $54.99

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript
by Robin Nixon
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99
Bundle: $43.99

New


Adobe Edge Preview 3: The Missing Manual Adobe Edge Preview 3: The Missing Manual
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $27.49

Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Jonathan Stark
Second Edition
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $32.99

Introducing Starling Introducing Starling
Ebook: $0.00

Head First Mobile Web Head First Mobile Web
by Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby
Print: $44.99
Ebook: $35.99
Bundle: $49.49

ActionScript Developer's Guide to PureMVC ActionScript Developer's Guide to PureMVC
by Cliff Hall
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $13.99
Bundle: $32.99

Upcoming


Android and Arduino Android and Arduino
by Tyler Moskowite
Print: $5.99

Getting Started with NFC Getting Started with NFC
by Tom Igoe, Brian Jepson
Print: $19.99

What's New with jQuery: Mobile and UI What's New with jQuery: Mobile and UI
by Ralph Whitbeck
Print: $29.99

Mobile HTML5 Mobile HTML5
by Maximiliano Firtman, Estelle Weyl
Print: $39.99

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery Mobile Design Pattern Gallery
by Theresa Neil
Print: $29.99

More Related Books & Videos


RIA Experts

Ryan Benedetti Ryan Benedetti holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Montana and teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Jonathan Stark Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

Lyza Danger Gardner Lyza Danger Gardner has built, broken and hacked web things since 1996.

Cliff Hall Cliff Hall has been developing software professionally since the early 1980s. He is the author of the PureMVC framework and owner of Futurescale, Inc., where he consults as a business software architect specializing in Adobe Flex and AIR.

More Experts

RIA Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

More RIA Answers

RIA News & Commentary

Four short links: 7 February 2012

By Nat Torkington
February 7, 2012

Integrated Content Editor (GitHub) -- a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web, written by the NY Times team and open sourced. Data Tables -- featureful jQuery plugin for tables of data. (via Javascript Weekly) Creating a Developer Community (Slideshare) -- treat the problem like a channel conversion funnel: turn visitors into...

Top stories: January 30-February 3, 2012

Top stories: January 30-February 3, 2012
By Mac Slocum
February 3, 2012

This week on O'Reilly: Edd Dumbill examined the components and functions of the Hadoop ecosystem, Pete Warden gave a big thumbs-up to unstructured data, and Jonathan Alexander looked at how a Moneyball approach could help software teams.

Commerce Weekly: The return of iPhone NFC rumors

Commerce Weekly: The return of iPhone NFC rumors

February 2, 2012

When will Apple bring mobile commerce to the iOS masses? Also, PayPal studies consumer behavior at the cash register and Square collects for candidates. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.)

Four short links: 2 February 2012

By Nat Torkington
February 2, 2012

Beautiful Buttons for Bootstrap -- cute little button creator, with sliders for hue, saturation, and "puffiness". CMU iPad Course -- iTunes U has the video lectures for a CMU intro to iPad programming. Inspiring Matter -- the conference aims to bring together designers, scientists, artists and humanities people working with materials research and innovation to talk about how they...

Four short links: 1 February 2012

By Nat Torkington
February 1, 2012

Cycles of Invention and Commoditisation (Simon Wardley) -- Explosions of industrial creativity rarely follow the invention or discovery of a technology but instead its commoditisation i.e. it wasn't the discovery of electricity but Edison's introduction of utility services for electricity that produced the creative boom that led to recorded music, modern movies, consumer electronics and even Silicon Valley. However,...

More News & Commentary

Popular Topics

Browse Books & Videos

International Sites

O'Reilly China O'Reilly Germany O'Reilly Japan