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+ Things I'll Need in iPhone 2.0 + I stood in line at an AT&T store last summer the day the iPhone first became publicly available. I thought the local Apple store would [...] buying two iPhones. So my relationship with the iPhone started out well, on balance. But I kept on using other phones on the side.

+ Fresh Notes After Taking the Flex Certification Exam + Yesterday I realized that Friday's calendar was wide open, so I decided to take the Adobe Flex 2 Developer Exam. I knew plenty of ...

+ AJAX World - Google Web Toolkit RC1.5 Ready To Pop + Google's Web Toolkit Release Candidate 1.5 will be available later this week. That's the stuff programmers can use to develop and [...] to be able to sidestep common AJAX headaches like browser compatibility, and enjoy significant performance and productivity gains.

+ Grid Dynamics to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo + Grid Dynamics is a fast growing consulting company. Grid Dynamics advise and engineer systems and solutions of 'extreme' performance, [...] - the bleeding edge of mainstream computing. Our staff consists of elite scientists and engineers, experts in performance computing.

+ JNetDirect to Exhibit at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo + JNetDirect provides software products for improving their customer's connectivity, integration, management and security to their data [...] -- in virtually every conceivable Java configuration -- giving organizations unparalleled connectivity to their critical data sources.

+ Where is 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player? + I run 32-bit Linux but there is a very vocal group of people who really want 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player. Today there is a [...] From what I've heard it works fairly well on most distros but I haven't heard yet how well it works with the new Flash Player 10 beta.

+ Six Considerations Before Taking Virtualization into Production + Data center managers are quickly realizing the benefits of virtualization, including reduced power consumption, improved server [...] and physical), different virtual machines, and storage and tape vendors. Interoperability is critical to managing this heterogeneity.

+ Are Your Applications vAvailable? + At Marathon Technologies, we service a range of industries that must have their applications up and running at all times, or as we [...] a new standard for application availability using virtualization technology that embraces Windows and business process applications.

+ Xsigo Expands Virtualization Channel Relationships + Xsigo Systems announced that it has added two new channel partners in the United States to distribute its I/O virtualization [...] operating expenses by up to 80%, cut capital costs by 50%, and use 70% less cabling -- resulting in 100x faster server management.

+ Yahoo Director Quits; Company Postpones Annual Meeting + The Yahoo board is one short. Edward Kozel, a former Cisco CTO and now a VC and a Yahoo board member since October of 2000, tendered [...] proposal. Now he's going to do what he intended and spend more time with his family, including relocating them to Europe this summer.

+ Good News for AJAX – The Browser Wars Are Back! + After years of dominance by a single browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), and few advances within IE, the world has changed. [...] in important new capabilities within AJAX toolkits and will help accelerate the adoption of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

+ AJAX, RIA, SOA & Web 2.0 Mashups - Mash What? + It's what you don't see about the emerging Web that has everyone excited these days. Namely, it's the powerful application programming [...] However, the advent of Web services along with the notion of mashups has changed the way we consider and leverage APIs going forward.

+ AJAX RIA News Desk - TopQuadrant Delivers TopBraid Live 2.0 + TopQuadrant has announced the general availability of TopBraid Live 2.0, a semantic application deployment platform that simplifies [...] creates graphical 'information spaces' as the output, which allow users to browse dynamic information by following graphical links.

+ Adobe Flash Player 10 Public Beta Now on Adobe Labs + Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs. Adobe Flash Player [...] for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout, and GPU hardware acceleration.

+ Flex 4: My Wish List + Flex 2 was released in the Summer of 2006 and it was a mini-revolution in the RIA space. Almost nobody knew about Flex 1.5, but now [...] has announced a number of very interesting syntax improvements, I'd love to see more fundamental improvements in this great RIA tool.

+ Additions to My Computer Book Shelf + Many young programmers don't read books anymore. They google. They argue, 'When I need to find a solution it's just a click away. Why ...

+ Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project + Today, Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders. The project is dedicated to driving rich ...

+ Responding to the "Adobe Flex Shortcomings" Java Blog + Vectors supporting types are the part of next release - and are billed more of performance/coding help then language enhancement. Most [...] almost tolerable - but I still miss ability to redefine operators - does it really matter to anyone who never did it in first place?

+ Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla + Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a [...] for the mobile and devices business, will be general manager of the unit, reporting to Lynch, replacing Al Ramadan, who is leaving.

+ "Apple Should Buy Adobe," Cringeley Thinks – And He Explains Why + Robert X. Cringely thinks Apple should buy Adobe. In an article published on the National Public Radio website discussing Apple's [...] its quest to desktop dominance: an important link in this chain, according to Cringeley, is the aquisition by Apple of Adobe Systems.

+ New Major Release of Flex Is Due This Summer + This caught me by surprise. Isn't it a bit too soon? One of the most interesting features of this Flex release is configurable ...

+ The Heck With What Steve Jobs Thinks: Adobe + Apple CEO Steve Jobs may think Flash is junk, but Adobe says it's creating a media player for the iPhone anyway using the software [...] through Apple's iTunes store, according to what Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Wall Street when Adobe released its quarterly results.

+ Flex on Wall Street + If you are evaluating technologies for your next rich Internet financial application, do not miss this one day event 'Flex on Wall ...

+ Communigate delivers Pronto! + CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Rich Media Internet Communications, today announced the availability of Pronto! 2.0, [...] framework built with Adobe® Flex® 3, deployed in the browser with Adobe Flash® Player and to the desktop with Adobe® AIR.

+ Application Built in Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR + Verb Exchange announced a deal with interface design specialist, Nitobi, to develop the desktop and web interfaces for Tabrio, a new ...

+ Why Adobe AIR Is Not Google Gears, Prism, JavaFX or Silverlight + Adobe's release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the [...] streaming, and on and on - like a tornado crossing a junkyard. It's one of those times when it's hard to keep things straight.

+ Notes from Adobe conference for educators + These are the notes from Adobe Education Designer and Developer Conference that Adobe put together for people who are teaching Adobe ...

+ ILOG Ships Graphical Visualization Tool for Flex + ILOG. a member of the OpenAjax Alliance, announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe Flex, ILOG Elixir, is shipping ...

+ RIA Development Update: Flex 3, Air 1.0 and BlazeDS Released + Eighteen months ago Flex 2 was released, which literally changed the way people think of rich Internet applications. Since then lots [...] open source. And let?s not forget about the number of other open source products released by Adobe during the same period of time.

+ How to Create a Multi User Flex Application Using JMS + In order to create a multi user Flex application, you can take advantage of one of the features of LiveCycle Data Services: the [...] The Java Message Service (JMS) API is a Java Message Oriented Middleware API for sending messages between two or more clients.

+ Flex Best Practices: DTO is the Horseshoe of your Flex Application + If I could pass just one Flex advice that would be: Use Data Transfer Objects. Use custom Data Transfer Objects to pass data between ...

+ AOL, eBay, NASDAQ, New York Times, Deutsche Bank, Nick.com, Sharp Take To the AIR + Question: What do AOL, eBay, NASDAQ, The New York Times Company, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group's Nick.com, Sharp Corporation [...] all launched pioneering Rich Internet Applications deployed on Adobe AIR, to coincide with the official release today of AIR 1.0.

+ Should You Choose AJAX or Adobe? + AJAXWorld in 2007 was sponsored by the world's leading rich web technology providers including: 3Tera, Addison-Wesley, Adobe, Apress, [...] Tele Atlas, The Thomson Corporation, ThinWire, TIBCO Software, TileStack, Universal Mind, Vertex Logic, Web Spiders, and Webtide.

+ Watching Java presentations with AJAX, Flex, AIR and JavaFX + Parleys.com is a great Web site with lots of recoded videos of technical presentations on a wide variety of Java-related topics. While [...] created in AJAX, more advanced Flex and AIR versions are now available too. I had a chance to chat with a man behind this project.

+ Car Manufacturers Go with Adobe Flex RIA + OK, car manufactures go Flex. Will they lose or gain customers because of that? Car manufacturers want to have fancy consumer sites. ...

+ Adobe Flex Rules, Everything Else Drools + The article is basically 'Flex rules, everything else drools'. It goes on and on about the good things about Flex, while giving only [...] party libraries and controls in the Swing ecosystem, that further extends Swing capabilities, and makes Swing development easier.

+ Building Rich User Interfaces in Dreamweaver + Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript [...] how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps.

+ Flex Is All About Event-Driven Development + This is the first in a series of articles that will cover best practices of Flex development using the code of the soon-to-be-released [...] successfully using various coding techniques and custom components that turned the application development in Flex into a RAD project.

+ Discovery Channel and EffectiveUI Launch Earth Live + Earth Live is an application that EffectiveUI has created in collaboration with Discovery channel. The application helps people to [...] the planet Earth. The UI offers several layers, and you can load the content of the layer (i.e. rain) onto the 3D image of the globe.

+ Adobe Names CTO + Adobe has named Kevin Lynch, a guy from the Macromedia side of the house, CTO, a chair last warmed by John Warnock. Lynch was [...] the importance of rich Internet applications to Adobe, which acquired Macromedia in 2005. He holds three patents with others pending.

+ An Alternative To Flex Builder Is Coming: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA + One of the best Java IDEs on the market may become a valid Flex Builder alternative later this year. I can make a wild guess that I'll ...

+ Flex Bugs Déjà Vu; Memories of Java's Bug Parade + Flex is an open source product, which means that you can fix the bugs on your own. This may fork out the product, but that's another [...] team can fix them. I remain cautiously optimistic that Flex team will be more responsive than their Java colleagues. Time will tell.

+ Three RIA Platforms Compared: Adobe Flex, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenLaszlo + The defining characteristic of any RIA is that it has a stateful client that is (or should be) platform and browser independent. [...] application with many of the useful characteristics of thick-client applications, such as the ability to maintain state on the client.

+ Where To Find Senior Flex Developers? + The Adobe Flex enterprise market picks up really fast, and it's obvious that the need for Flex developers will only get bigger and [...] huge demand. I'll share with you the experience of our company, but first, let's look at the diagram from the popular job aggregator.

+ Flex 3, AIR, BlazeDS: Less Than One Moon + Unless your Flex 2 project has to go to production this month, switch to Flex 3. Now. Flex 3 final Beta days are almost over and it [...] for your data intensive business application, just stop it, will you! Just take care of your business with Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS.

+ Does Adobe's Promotion of Flex Put Flash Programmers at a Disadvantage? + I ran into an interesting blog written by a Flash programmer who feels that Adobe's promotion of Flex puts him and other Flash ...

+ RIA Development on the Microsoft Stack Using Flex + ASP.NET AJAX is a natural candidate for RIA development under the .NET framework. However, there are other complementary or even [...] the web, and engaging your audience with audio/video chat. Basically all the must-have features of today's Rich Internet Applications.

+ How Do You Pick the Right Technology for Enterprise Rich Internet Applications? + We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which [...] the pros and cons of using various techniques and technologies for the development of the front end for complex distributed systems.

+ RIA Tookits, Frameworks and IDEs: How Do You Really Choose the Right One? + This session will address issues to consider when selecting an AJAX toolkit and the most effective IDE for the implementation. It will [...] libraries. Further discussion will address how to select the appropriate IDE once a commitment has been made to a AJAX UI toolkit.

+ Rich Semantic Internet Applications with Flex + Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) run inside web browsers and provide a much more dynamic user experience than conventional web pages. [...] are several platforms to implement such dynamic web pages, for example AJAX, Flash, Java FX, Microsoft Silverlight, OpenLaszlo, XUL.