Vol: 4 Iss: 10 Read Back Issues

Beyond 'Request-Response' Modes of Web Services Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services today are going mainstream. Corporate executives and individuals at home are demanding access to many of the same GIS capabilities previously used only by engineers, geologists, and government officials. Feb. 23, 2007  Reads: 15,272

Flex On Ruby on Rails With the release of Flex 2, Adobe has introduced a tool that makes building rich user interfaces for the Web easier than ever; of course, as anyone remotely plugged in to the Web development community knows, Ruby on Rails has made creating database-driven Web applications brain dead si... Nov. 20, 2006  Reads: 21,144

Working with Large Applications In this excerpt from our book, Rich Internet Applications, we'll cover how to set up large applications intended for Web or, more broadly speaking, distributed deployment. As an example let's consider an enterprise application that consists of hundreds of screens, reports, forms, and d... Nov. 11, 2006  Reads: 26,623

Back and Forth For over a decade now, we have been trained to use the 'back' and 'forward' buttons in our Web browser to review or backtrack previously viewed content. We are trained to the point that there are even keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately, this can be a problem when browsing Flex applicati... Nov. 9, 2006  Reads: 11,692

Adding Flash Video to PowerPoint Presentations PowerPoint has been capable of accepting and playing back videos for quite some time, at least as far back as Office 97. In most cases the process is quite simple. Go to the Insert menu, click on Insert Movies, and away you go. At least in theory. Nov. 7, 2006  Reads: 32,586

Web and Mobile Convergence Sharing Data Between Flex 2 and Flash Lite I love the definition in Wikipedia of Media convergence: 'Media convergence is a theory in communications where every mass medium eventually merges to the point where they are indistinguishable to each other due to the advent of new communication technologies.' Nov. 5, 2006  Reads: 34,675  Replies: 2

$18 Billion Dollar Adobe Moves Center Stage Once upon a time, Sun and Apple used to have about the same market cap. Today Apple has a market cap of $63BN while Sun's is just $17BN. Ahead of Sun, unbeknownst to many, is Adobe. Its market cap today is $18BN. For a company that in 1998 was worth 'only' $1.7BN it has not been a bad ... Nov. 4, 2006  Reads: 19,818  Replies: 2

Beyond the Browser: The Next Generation of Rich Internet Applications The growth of Flash and AJAX in Web applications is driven by real market needs - applications that are visually compelling and simple to use gain faster adoption and can be a competitive differentiator, enabling customers, employees, and partners to interact effectively with informati... Nov. 4, 2006  Reads: 22,216  Replies: 4