5 best-practices of a successful Linux user

09/17/2008 07:12 am in Featured

There would have been one or more reasons which would have tempted each one of us to try Linux, and some of us just never looked back. Few would have probably turned out to be Linux professionals, while others would still be struggling with what's good and what's perfect.

Dropbox rocks

09/17/2008 02:04 am by FlashApe in

If you haven't yet checked out Dropbox, the slick file transfer/sharing/backup tool, you should. It's one of those things that reminds me that computers supposed to be here to make our lives easier, not harder. It's so easy, even my wife was excited about it ("Cooooolll !!!" ...

Choosing The Right Hosting for your Website

09/17/2008 01:40 am by Flash Enabled Blog in Reviews

In nowadays, when we started a new project for a site, or when a customer asks us to choose an hosting provider for their site, it is difficult to say what’s the best, as the market is large and varied, and as some may be better in terms of price, others may be best in [...]

Choosing The Right Hosting for your Website

09/17/2008 01:40 am in Reviews

In nowadays, when we started a new project for a site, or when a customer asks us to choose an hosting provider for their site, it is difficult to say what’s the best, as the market is large and varied, and as some may be better in terms of price, others may be best in [...]

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 1

09/17/2008 01:02 am by The Tech Labs in 3D

This tutorial article is a Step by step guide for creating a PicLens type 3D photo viewer with Flex and Away3d. This is step 1, of a 3 part tutorial that will sweep many useful techniques used in web application design, Flex, and Flash 3D design.

posted in 3D by Alejandro Santander Leave A Comment
©2008 The Tech Labs. All Rights Reserved.

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 1

09/17/2008 01:02 am in 3D

This tutorial article is a Step by step guide for creating a PicLens type 3D photo viewer with Flex and Away3d. This is step 1, of a 3 part tutorial that will sweep many useful techniques used in web application design, Flex, and Flash 3D design.

posted in 3D by Alejandro Santander Leave A Comment
©2008 The Tech Labs. All Rights Reserved.

Now Available: ColdFusion Evangelism Kit

09/16/2008 09:03 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager Kristen Schofield has created the ColdFusion Evangelism Kit, an 8 page PDF document that helps explain the how's and why's of ColdFusion. This will be posted to Adobe.com at some point, but for now you can grab it from Kristen's blog.

FlashPitt!!

09/16/2008 08:46 pm by BitchWhoCodes in

I'm looking forward to attending FlashPitt in Pittsburgh October 10 - and I'm more excited to be speaking! A bit of a new topic this time, I'll be talking about Experience versus Functionality.

Looks to be a great event with a solid speaker lineup - come and say hi if you see me there!

Help A User Get To Max And Get A Free Park Wars Darth Vader Model

09/16/2008 07:42 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in AdobeMAX08

Brazilian Claudio Dias wants to attend MAX in San Francisco, and needs some help covering costs. So he's offering a PDF paper model of Park Wars Darth Vader (yep, a South Park type Darth Vader character) to anyone who helps him attend.

Adobe and Zend Announce Collaboration

09/16/2008 06:37 pm by The Official Flex Team Blog in General

Today Adobe and Zend entered into a collaboration to bring together the flexibility, productivity and enterprise reliability of PHP and Zend Platform with the user experience benefits of the open source Flex framework. This collaboration will deliver technologies, content and services to make it easy for enterprise developers to build web applications using Flex on the client and PHP on the server. (Read the official press release.)

Adobe has joined the Zend Framework project and will work with the framework community to optimize communication between Zend Framework and Adobe Flex applications. Adobe has contributed support for the open, binary AMF format for exchanging data between Flex applications and PHP applications to the Zend Framework.

In addition, Zend and Adobe plan to optimize the experience for developers using their respective development environments. Zend Studio and Adobe® Flex Builder, both built on the open source Eclipse platform, provide robust coding, debugging, and testing tools for professional developers.

As part of this announcement, Adobe has also redesigned the PHP page of the Flex developer center, and will be contributing articles and videos to that page, as well as the Flex page on Zend Developer Zone.

If you're interested in running Zend Studio with Flex Builder in the same version of Eclipse, we recommend using the standalone version of Zend Studio and the plugin version of Flex Builder. Install Zend Studio first, then install the Eclipse plugin of Flex Builder.

The latest version of Zend Studio (6.1) is built on Eclipse 3.4, so installing the Eclipse plugin of Flex Builder doesn't work perfectly. When you install Flex Builder, you'll receive an error - don't worry, that's OK. Just follow the instructions to get Flex Builder working properly - launch Zend Studio, then go to Help -> Software Updates -> Manage Configuration, select "Add an extension location" in the right hand pane. In the browse dialog, select the Flex Builder plugin folder, and everything should work fine.

We're really excited to be working with Zend and being part of the Zend Framework. Most of all, we can't wait to see all the great applications that developers build with PHP and Flex.

Do You Use CF8 .NET Integration?

09/16/2008 06:00 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

ColdFusion 8 added .NET integration, making it possible for CFML code to invoke .NET classes locally or remotely. The feature obviously won't appeal to all users, but for those in organizations using both ColdFusion and .NET it does open up some very interesting doors. I've posted examples of how to use .NET integration, and others have, too. But beyond snippets and examples, I'd love to hear from any of you using this functionality in production applications. Specifically I'd like to hear about how you are using this feature, I'd like for you to share your thoughts on what works and what does not, and I'd like any suggestions on where you'd like to see us take this integration as we plan and build CF9. Thanks!

Jared Rypka-Hauer On Customizing CF Administrator Login

09/16/2008 05:53 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

Jared Rypka-Hauer IM'd me a while back with some questions on modifying ColdFusion Administrator to use LDAP authentication. The truth is that this is something I wanted for CF8 when we added support for multiple logins with different levels of access, but that feature never made it in for that release. I still want ColdFusion to support this (using LDAP, a database of your choice, and more) - maybe CF9? But Jared needed this functionality for a client right now. Over the IM thread Jared came up with a workable solution to the problem, and I suggested that he blog it for others to take advantage of. And, he's just done so. Thanks, Jared!

Upcoming ColdFusion And Flex eSeminars

09/16/2008 05:47 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in RIA

We're hosting eSeminars on both ColdFusion and Flex, with the first session (ColdFusion-powered Rich Internet Applications) tomorrow at 2:00pm US East Coast time. Details are posted online for the Adobe ColdFusion 8 eSeminar Series and the Adobe Flex eSeminar Series for Developers.

Dashboards With Advanced Visualization Widgets

09/16/2008 05:30 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

MicroStrategy Inc., a leading worldwide provider of Business Integlligence software, released several advanced visualization widgets for its dashboards early this month. MicroStrategy dashboards, called Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, are enterprise-level applications that can be useful for analyzing large volumes of complex data in ways not possible (or too arduous) using standard graphical representations. They claim the platform [...]

Papervision3D Portfolios : Barcinski & Jean-Jean & Fat-Man Collective

09/16/2008 02:45 pm in Uncategorized

2 very nice Papervision3D powered portfolio sites have just emerged. Barcinski-JeanJean - From the makers of VectorVision, this highly entertaining and very well constructed site comes. 3D Glasses, VectorVision, Cloth Dynamics, Panorama Photography…it’s all there, it even sports a 3D version of pong for your loading pleasures. Well done guys! (make sure you take a look [...]

Spline Tangents Part II

09/16/2008 02:01 pm in Flex

Comments now re-enabled

09/16/2008 01:44 pm by Seb Lee-Delisle in General

OK so WP-SpamFree didn’t work out so well - it was blocking everyone’s comments. I thought it had got a little quiet around here! So I’ve disabled it. Comment away!

Update on the giveaway

09/16/2008 12:56 pm by Peter Elst in General

I’m happy to say that thanks to the friendly folks at Adobe I’ve now got two licenses of Flex Builder 3 Professional to give away! So, don’t hesitate - record a video comment, right now you’ve still got a 100% chance of winning. To get things kick started the first person to leave a video message [...]

Adobe MAX scrimps on speaker expenses… again

09/16/2008 11:58 am by Seb Lee-Delisle in Flash

Just when we thought this particular battle was over, it seems that Adobe have slipped back into their old habits. I was approached by Adobe a few weeks ago to speak at MAX Milan, and, like Aral before me, I had to turn them down. Why? Because they have a policy of not paying for [...]

AIRhead: What Exactly Is ClipboardFormats.URL_FORMAT?

09/16/2008 08:57 am in AIR

Maybe its just my contrarian nature resisting stack overflow, but I think I’m going to kick it old school for the time being and stick to posting my stupid programming questions and pathetic hacks on my own personal blog. After all I’ve got like 3 readers and I don’t work in some swank NYC development [...]

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5 best-practices of a successful Linux user

Dropbox rocks

Choosing The Right Hosting for your Website

Choosing The Right Hosting for your Website

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 1

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 1

Now Available: ColdFusion Evangelism Kit

FlashPitt!!

Help A User Get To Max And Get A Free Park Wars Darth Vader Model

Adobe and Zend Announce Collaboration

Do You Use CF8 .NET Integration?

Jared Rypka-Hauer On Customizing CF Administrator Login

Upcoming ColdFusion And Flex eSeminars

Dashboards With Advanced Visualization Widgets

Papervision3D Portfolios : Barcinski & Jean-Jean & Fat-Man Collective

Spline Tangents Part II

Comments now re-enabled

Update on the giveaway

Adobe MAX scrimps on speaker expenses… again

AIRhead: What Exactly Is ClipboardFormats.URL_FORMAT?

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