Adobe AIR for Total Virtualization Management

07/16/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

This is a larger step for Adobe AIR in entering “serious” applications. With the sudden outbreak and rising necessity for virtualization, several companies, big and small, are sweating to go virtual and also adapt their own technologies to work in the virtual environments. While VMWare and Microsoft are battling to provide virtualization management capabilities BlueBear [...]

Potential Threats Through Softwares

07/10/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

Although this hasn’t much to do with RIAs, you might find it important. Account stealing trojans are now entering our computers through Adobe Flash Plug-ins as well. While internet users are increasingly becoming aware of security, attacks on computers are becoming ingenious and malicious by the day. One form of such attacks targets vulnerabilities in softwares. The usual [...]

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 [...]

To Cut Down on Flash Ads?

06/26/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

This Washington Post article has overnight created a buzz about whether the $40 billion internet advertisement industry should be scared of softwares like EasyList and Adblock Plus. At a time when “Flash Ads” are increasingly becoming a major type, when they probably get more per-unit-revenue than text and images, they also get the major share [...]

Wallowr Now on AIR

06/25/2008 06:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

When Wallowr started last year it didn’t seem very different from FriendFeed, Socialthing or even Google Reader. But by launching two products, and recently winning two prizes in the RJI-Adobe AIR student competition for one of the products, the team ensures all our attention. Wallowr.AIR is a desktop application that makes our lives easy when it [...]

Java Servlets, an introduction

06/24/2008 09:06 pm by Brajeshwar in Technology

Servlets are the small programs that are run on the server side of the connection and they're used to dynamically extend the functionality of a web server. They follow the standard framework, use portable Java language.

Visualizing Opensource Project by Processing

06/20/2008 11:23 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

I wrote about how good old Java back to RIA world through Processing, a media processing language that developed using Java. Well, someone really takes a good use of it. Michael Ogawa created a project called code_swarm. It visualize the code commits happened to those open source project, using Processing. This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history [...]

Flash/Flex Left Out of Semantic Search?

06/19/2008 10:47 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

Google claimed the web 3.0 is all about semantic web. The core of the semantic web is the semantic search. That where the niche point those new search startups are trying to beat search engine beast Google. There are very much hyped new comers such as PowerSet and TextWise that have become the most discussed/gossiped/funded [...]

Shoot a terminal and install a ball

06/19/2008 07:56 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

Generally, a source code comes as a bundle which is a compressed file having an extension -- @.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz@ et al. They are often known as tar balls.

Adobe & Apple Working Together

06/16/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

While the net is abuzz with speculation that the new Apple iPhone 3G may be flash-enabled, an official confirmation came during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference that Adobe and Apple are working together. Only, this is a very different project — a project to port the Mac OS X implementation of the Standard Widget Toolkit to [...]

Software installation woes on Linux

06/16/2008 10:05 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

Installing software on Linux is not only easier than most of us think, but it also has some special features which help software's to be updated automatically!

Adobe Flex Marshall Plan

06/11/2008 11:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

Applications may crash or result in a run-time exception if the APIs used by the caller and those expected by the callee are incompatible. Java, Flash and Actionscript deal with the issue in their own ways. In Flex, attempts to support cross-versioning began with version 2.0.1 though it didn’t work very well. Cross-versioning Support should be [...]

The power of ‘root’ in Linux

06/11/2008 07:16 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

'Root' is the default name for system administrator in a *NIX system -- a super user who can do anything and everything within the operating system.

Filesystem & file organization in Linux

06/09/2008 11:54 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

A Linux system, just like any *NIX based system doesn't differentiate between a file and a directory, since a directory is just another file which contains names of other files. Applications, programs, documents, services, images and just about everything else on a Linux operating system is a file!

Jumping through Hoops with Acrobat

06/08/2008 03:32 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

PDF files are used on hundreds of different sites, they’re something that you either love or hate! Adobe created the PDF format in 1993, so by computer standards it’s prehistoric! Adobe has recently launched a new version of their PDF reader software, this one is called Reader 9. I’m not really a big fan of Acrobat [...]

Which Linux distro is right for you?

06/07/2008 10:11 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

With rich GUI enabled installation procedures and live-CDs, installing a popular Linux distro is very easy. Gone are those days when you needed to compile the kernel from the source.

The art of Linux

06/06/2008 07:41 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

Presence of numerous distributions of Linux, each having its own unique set of characteristics but, basically compatible with each other gives users' a variety. This allows users to select the versions which best meet their requirements.

Ready for LAMP?

06/05/2008 07:50 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free and open source software (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP), used to run dynamic Web sites or servers.

Not on Subversion yet? Try Git

05/31/2008 06:45 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

I’ve start seeing more and more open source developments in the RIA space, especially ActionScript and Flex based open source projects. I don’t know any of those new projects is using CVS anymore, rather most of them must be on Subversion. If you start something new, regardless it’s open or not, you might take a [...]

Opera Dragonfly

05/16/2008 07:22 pm by Brajeshwar in Technology

Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors -- Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.

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