http://www.web2journal.com/ Latest articles from Flash & Flex Copyright 2008 WEB 2.0 JOURNAL Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:44:00 GMT WEB 2.0 JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.web2journal.com/read/569302.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/569302.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT Adobe Thursday turned its little piece of Disneyland for developers loose. The pre-release of Flash Player 10, a k a 'Astro,' which promises richer, more immersive Web 2.0 experiences, has gone to public beta ahead of general availability sometime later this year. It adds custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout and GPU hardware acceleration. Adobe thinks it's a game changer about what can go on the web. http://www.web2journal.com/read/538269.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/538269.htm Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of the whole magilla now. Gary Kovacs, VP of product management and marketing for the mobile and devices business, will be general manager of the unit, reporting to Lynch, replacing Al Ramadan, who is leaving. http://www.web2journal.com/read/516151.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/516151.htm Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:30:00 GMT For the past ten years application developers have been stuck with only two desktop client choices. Traditionally, they can choose either a very thin Web-client technology implemented in HTML and CSS, or a very heavyweight thick client experience implemented using traditional client/server (C/S) technologies (e.g. Java Swing, MFC). It wasn't until the introduction of RIA technologies (e.g. AJAX, Adobe Flex, Curl, and Silverlight) and widget engines (e.g. Yahoo! Widgets and Google Gadgets) that we were given more options. http://www.web2journal.com/read/336933.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/336933.htm Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:15:00 GMT We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET technologies or less known (as yet) yet AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo... http://www.web2journal.com/read/352007.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/352007.htm Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:15:00 GMT Farata Systems, a leading provider of Flex and Java services and components has announced availability of the Alpha version of the first community site www.myflex.org that will become a repository for commercial Flex components and Eclipse plugins developed by independent vendors. http://www.web2journal.com/read/283888.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/283888.htm Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:30:00 GMT The subject of this piece is how to pass parameters from HTML to a Flex 2 application using flashVars parameters. http://www.web2journal.com/read/281392.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/281392.htm Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:15:00 GMT Flash Player 9 enters pre-Alpha stage on Linux. Adobe marketing needs to work harder. http://www.web2journal.com/read/280900.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/280900.htm Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:45:00 GMT We are about to enter a new era, when plain looking Web applications will gradually be replaced with RIA delivered over the Web that can actually land on the PC and work in a disconnected mode as well. How this will affect the evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) applications? http://www.web2journal.com/read/262432.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/262432.htm Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:00:00 GMT There are cool software tools and there are practical tools. People who make their living by development of the enterprise Web applications, are very careful in selecting the language or technology for their needs. There is a huge difference in requirements for developing an application like Google maps and the enterprise-grade high availability business applications. Anatole Tartakovsky of Farata Systems is one of these programmers that know pretty much everything about Web development. http://www.web2journal.com/read/251693.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/251693.htm Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT It's a known fact that Java and Adobe Flex 2 compliment each other really well. But now accessing database becomes even easier with DAOFlex code generator.