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The history of RIAs has been at the back of my mind for quite sometime now. I was hoping to learn a little about it and share it with you, but I failed miserably. I confess that my quests have only been shallow googlings. The inane investigation invariably raised another associated curiosity: History of the [...]
The financial market melting down is on news all of the world. Can we developers on main streets or code streets hide behind duel LCDs and IDEs? We shouldn’t and we can’t.
Here is a blog posting on NYT could give you a full view of what’s going on. Forget about the news and those after-fact-wise-ass [...]
Here is a list of top 10 flex-related sites:
1. SitePoint
2. Visual Builder
3. Sephiroth.it
4. Flex.org
5. Tedo on Flex
6. InsideRIA
7. Pete Freitag Blog
8. Switch On the Code
9. Flex RIA
10. Quietly Scheming
Shocked, amused and rolling your eyes at how cunningly our website’s name was slipped into the ninth place? Vanity, you think? We’re proud of doing a decent [...]
Are frameworks healthy supplements or slowly-but-surely poisons to the young RIA world, especially beloved Flex? Are those design patterns the steroid pills or wight-loss metabolism justified medicine?
Take a look at what Yakov Fain came up with based on the PureMVC framework:
The much needed weekends can sometimes be so unjust. I was too busy enjoying my weekend to notice that Randy Pausch took his last breath on 25th July. When I read this piece of news early this morning, I didn't realize how much he touched me until my eyes welled up with tears.
Randy Pausch was an [...]
We love Ruby on Rails. We will fall hard when Flex on Rails. Anyway, looks we are not alone. Amazon loves Rails too.
If you are a Rails geek you must know Engine Yard, a young rails hosting company that is very visible to the Rails community. Amazon and another VC gave them $15 million this [...]
We love Ruby on Rails. We will fall hard when Flex on Rails. Anyway, looks we are not alone. Amazon loves Rails too.
If you are a Rails geek you must know Engine Yard, a young rails hosting company that is very visible to the Rails community. Amazon and another VC gave them $15 million this [...]
I haven’t had a chance to see RIAs in non-English languages much. When I first saw Camilo Langlade’s Flash website, I was very impressed. But unfortunately, I can barely recognize Spanish. I mechanically tried Google’s Language Tools, and by the time the translated version loaded I realized how difficult it is for search engines to [...]
I’m surprised, puzzled and concerned by Adobe’s act to go after its freelancing technology evangelist by hinting trademark infringement. This happened to an Adobe AIR promoter FreshAIRapps.com, an Adobe AIR application showcase blog by James Whittaker. Apparently, Adobe is not happy about Whittaker’s use of the name “AIR” on hist domain name. According to Adobe:
Adobe® [...]
I’m surprised, puzzled and concerned by Adobe’s act to go after its freelancing technology evangelist by hinting trademark infringement. This happened to an Adobe AIR promoter FreshAIRapps.com, an Adobe AIR application showcase blog by James Whittaker. Apparently, Adobe is not happy about Whittaker’s use of the name “AIR” on hist domain name. According to Adobe:
Adobe® [...]
Long ago, people belonging to the Linux community filed a petition to Macromedia, Inc. through PetitionOnline requesting them to release 64 bit Linux Flash and Shockwave players.
In a technote affecting Flash Player 9, Adobe addressed the issue a few months back: Adobe is working on Flash Player support for 64-bit platforms as part of our [...]
Starting its name with a small ‘i’, having a flash-based personality test with another small ‘i’, and even a million dollar challenge couldn’t help iYomu take off.
iYomu, which stands for “I, You, Me and Us”, was a flash-heavy social networking site. It started a little less than a year ago branding itself as a “social [...]
AsWing AS3 version 1.4 was released on June 13th. The upgrade made the program more stable. The big additions to this version are a MultipleAssetIcon and a new GridList. The GridList component maybe useful for some programmers, you can see an example here.
The update also fixes the preferred size cache bug that was responsible for [...]
Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live provide a “Cached” or an equivalent link alongside their search results. These are the cached versions of pages when search bots index them. While these links can be used as backup when an actual page is down or dead, I felt that they are also an image of how the [...]
The Ultimate Solution?
Ahmet Gyger has a wonderful SEO model for flash and flex content. Using XML, XSL and SWF for websites.
The XMLs contain HTML and all the data you use in your animations, with links to others XMLs. The XSL contains information about the transformation to be done on the XMLs. The XSLT will insert [...]
Another trick is to retrace the steps in history: HTML before Flash. Build a HTML website first. Wait for it to be ranked high in the search engine, and then add flash to the website.
It is recommended to use static text in Flash. This avoids a possibility that you may be flagged by spam-identification techniques [...]
Tools
We’ve already talked about the Search Engine SDK provided by Adobe.
The SWF file format in Flash 8 began supporting XMP metadata with a goal to enhance search engine support. A title and a description of the flash file can be added in the Document Properties dialog box. The information will be extracted using the SDK.
SE-flash.com [...]
Sites Vs Movies
We see full-flash sites or flash animations embedded inside other flash animations all the time. They provide a rich visual experience. However, they may be poor in terms of index-ability and bookmark-ability. There is a trade-off between experience and functionality. Or is there?
E.g. Various levels in games or surveys or tests, linking other [...]
HTML
Most internet users are yet to figure out what it means when a tool tip slides down the browser window with blocked pop-ups or missing plugins. If your target audience is largely made up of such users, using flash is a bad idea.
Flash sites are without doubt beautiful. But think twice before using flash, and [...]
Despite Flash Search Engine SDK, and any other methods that search engines employ to crawl flash sites, a debate has been going on. On one side are those who believe that flash sites can be optimized to climb up the search engine ladder, and on the other side are those who say that it is [...]
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