RIA Weekly Podcast

07/04/2008 01:48 am by Peter Elst in Podcasts

I’m very excited about the RIAJobs.org project now sponsoring on one of my all time favorite podcasts! RIA Weekly is a (somewhat weekly) podcast with Michael Coté from Redmonk and Ryan Stewart, Platform Evangelist at Adobe, and the occasional guest. If you’re at all into Rich Internet Applications that is definitely a podcast you’ll want to [...]

Blueprint: a CSS framework for grid-based layout

07/04/2008 01:41 am by Manish Jethani in

Image: Grid-based layout

I’ve been doing a lot of bookmarking on my del.icio.us stream lately. Among today’s finds is Blueprint, a CSS framework that makes it easy to achieve grid-based layouts in your web pages.

Check out their sample website, or their grid demo, and view the HTML source to see how it’s done.

Designers love grids. Thankfully there’s some work going on at the W3C towards making grid-based layout easy in CSS.

By the way, I’m looking for a CSS guru to work with me on a project. Please write to me at manish.jethani@gmail.com.

Icons | Social Bookmark and Feed Icons Collection

07/04/2008 01:04 am by Flash Enabled Blog in Graphics

This is time to present some real cool free icons. Remember to check the use restrictions if any.

Suggested Projects related to Flex

07/04/2008 12:07 am by Matt Chotin in Open Source

In my role as a PM I see lots of feature requests and suggestions that we should do "X" as part of Flex. Unfortunately we can't do everything, and in fact don't necessarily have the expertise in-house to do many...

Source | Bitmap / Vector into firefly particles AS3.0

07/03/2008 09:43 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in AS3

A cool experiment with source to a AS3 class that breaks up vectors/bitmaps into particles and then moves them around in a semi-random firefly pattern.

Open Pandora’s Box

07/03/2008 09:20 pm in General

Source | 3D Bend and Twist modifier for PaperVision3D

07/03/2008 09:15 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in AS3

Two great examples with source files of Twist and Bend modifiers for the PaperVision3D 2.0 Bend Modifier for PV3D - Part 1 Twist Modifier for PV3D

TR Coffey speaking on skinning, styling at Boston FUG

07/03/2008 08:34 pm by joeberkovitz.com » Flex in Flex

This is just to give a quick heads up to my local readership: TR Coffey of Allurent will be speaking at this month’s Boston Flex User Group meeting on Tuesday July 8th at Adobe’s Newton office. TR is a really smart designer and information architect, one of the best people I ever worked with, [...]

Tom Jordahl Explains How He Figures Out CFML Arguments To Web Services

07/03/2008 08:34 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

Yesterday I had to (once again) ping Tom Jordahl for help in figuring out exactly what to pass to a particular funky Web Service. And of course, Tom had the answer for me, as he always does. But this time he went a step further and blogged about Using WSDL2Java to figure out CFML arguments to a Web Service.

4 ColdFusion Webinars In July

07/03/2008 08:21 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

We're hosting a new series of ColdFusion Webinars in July, 4 sessions in all of 4 different topics. ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager Kristen Schofield has posted details, and you can register online.

AS3: QueryString

07/03/2008 07:26 pm by EVOLVE in AS3

Download Class I've posted before on retrieving FlashVars and how to do it in AS3. FlashVars is the suggested way of grabbing in variables from outside of Flash, but if it isn't an option and you are still using old school query strings, this class will help you in grabbing variables out of the query [...]

b.Tween Bridges Gap Between Adobe and Apple

07/03/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

Adobe Flash Player is not yet on Apple iPhone. But Flash Lite apps can now be ported to iPhone or iPod Touch. Thomas Joos from Boulevart and Emanuele Cipolloni from Barefootsoft have successfully ported a Flash Lite project, the “Rock Werchter Mobile Guide”, to the iPhone taking advantage of all the oppurtunities the iphone UI has [...]

Enhanced search string ComboBox

07/03/2008 04:28 pm by Flex RIA United in Flex Example

The standard behaviour of the Flex framework combobox, is to adjust its selected option as the user types in characters. However values are looked up only by the first character, i.e. user types in ‘a’ and the first option starting with ‘a’ is selected. He then types ‘b’ and the first option starting with ‘b’ is selected. Now this [...]

Adobe, why no 64-bits Flash Player?

07/03/2008 02:39 pm by Martijn van Beek in

Adobe, is there a simple reason why there is still no 64-bits version of the Flash Player?

Advanced Beauty on Apple

07/03/2008 11:48 am by all manner of distractions in Processing

That fantastic Advanced Beauty project, curated by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything, with audio from Simon Pyke of Freeform, now has a trailer on Apple.com. In HD too! Ooooh, shiny! Take a peek. The Blu-Ray will be released in November.

Displaying “Pay” instead of “Continue” on the PayPal site with PayPal Payments Pro UK Express Checkout

07/03/2008 11:00 am by Aral Balkan in Development

By default, PayPal Express Checkout for PayPal Payments Pro UK displays a "continue" button and sends the user back to your site, expecting a confirmation page before actually making the payment. This differs from other PayPal checkout procedures and, in my testing, I found that users expected to complete the transaction once on the PayPal [...]

ISO 3166 Alpha-2 codes for EU countries

07/03/2008 10:53 am by Aral Balkan in Development

For businesses based in the EU, it's important for VAT purposes to know whether your customers are also based in the EU. As usual, a quick Google search did not reveal a usable list of EU countries by ISO 3166 Alpha-2 code, so I whipped up my own. european_union_countries = ('AT', 'BE', 'BG', 'CY', 'CZ', [...]

Creating An ActionScript RegExp Whitelist

07/03/2008 05:55 am by Brooks Andrus in Flash

Steve Yegge makes me feel stupid. There I’ve said it. I’ve come clean and can move on and admit there’s a whole lot I don’t know about development. Actually, I’m going to have to go one step further and admit I know very little about development which is depressing. This biz is a time sink; [...]

How To Get an Adobe Certification

07/03/2008 05:20 am in How to

Some times ago I started to get interested to get an Adobe Certification. I started reading documents on Adobe’s website and started to ask people at Adobe and community people that already got some certifications. This is what I found… Available Certifications There are 3 (three) types of certifications: per product certification: Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified [...]

Epic email by Bill Gates complaining about Windows usability

07/03/2008 01:32 am by Manish Jethani in

Among the Microsoft internal emails turned over for the anti-trust trials was one from Bill Gates, written in 2003, complaining about the poor experience he had when trying to install the Windows Movie Maker application from the company website. The text is worth a read, as it gives us a perspective on where we stood 5 years ago and how far we’ve come since — not very far, that is to say.

Just a few days ago, I was trying to book air tickets on a certain airline’s website. Apparently I made a mistake in one of the forms before clicking the submit button, and what happened next is anyone’s guess — I won’t even say it.

Hopefully more and more RIAs built with Flex, or Silverlight, or “Ajax”, are making the web more usable as we speak.