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Adobe Releases Public Betas of Flex Gumbo, Flash Builder 4, and Flash Catalyst
In another step towards a final release, Adobe has released public betas of the Flex 4 framework and two related development tools.
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Merapi Project Utilizes Java to Expand the Desktop Capabilities of Adobe Air
The Merapi project recently was open sourced. Merapi is a technology that can be used as a messaging bridge between applications that run in the Adobe Flash player or Adobe AIR and applications written in Java.
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New York Times Dropping WPF/Silverlight for Adobe AIR
In a rather unexpected turn of events, Microsoft’s WPF and Silverlight platforms have lost another early adopter. Back in 2006 the NY Times was a headliner for WPF. Now it is being dropped in favor of Adobe AIR.
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Bruce Eckel on Python, Java, Flex, and RIAs
In this post, InfoQ interviews Bruce Eckel to get his thoughts on the RIA landscape and to find out what he has been up to, as Bruce recently released a book he coauthored titled First Steps in Flex.
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Flex Builder for Linux Dead?
Over the last few years, Adobe has taken a number of steps to entice a broad range of enterprise developers to use the Flex development platform. With all Adobe's extra work to court open source minded developers, it is surprising to hear the rumblings this week about the end of Flex Builder Linux.
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Augmented Reality with Flash
Augmented reality has been the main buzz in the Flash community of late with the recent release of the FLARToolKit. Augmented reality blends real world objects with computer-generated objects.
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Doug McCune on Flex Development
In this post, Doug McCune, Flex community rock star and author of Flex for Dummies, discusses the Flex landscape and shares his insights on building custom components in Flex. In addition, he talks about what is coming in Flex 4 and how the community has changed in the last few years.
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MacRuby 0.5 Will Have Faster VM Based on LLVM,
The first results of performance work on the next version of MacRuby are now available in an experimental branch. A new VM based on LLVM is used and already shows significant speed improvements over earlier MacRuby versions.
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Rhodes 1.0 Coming up, RhoHub beta
The Rhodes framework brings Ruby to many smartphone platforms, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and with the upcoming 1.0 release Android. We talked to Adam Blum of Rhomobile about what's coming in the 1.0 release, real world applications using Rhodes and the new RhoHub service.
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Silverlight Provides an Out-of-Browser Experience
Silverlight 3 Beta has been announced during keynotes at MIX09. Among other features, Silverlight 3 applications will be able to run outside the browser as desktop applications without an additional plug-in or runtime.
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Presentation: Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets presents Flex and AIR, two technologies from Adobe used to create, deploy and run Rich Internet Applications. After a brief introduction to each technology, Coenraets showed some applications built with them.
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Flight a Flex MVC Framework
The Flight Framework is a recent addition to the ever-growing set of MVC frameworks for application development in Adobe Flex. Tyler Wright, Rob Taylor, and Jacob Wright created the Flight Framework to meet their ActionScript and Flex development needs, and recently open sourced it in beta under the MIT license.
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Looking inside Silverlight XAP Files, and Making Them Smaller
Silverlight makes it easy to accidentally deploy far more code than what’s needed for an application. ComponentOne’s XapOptimizer makes it easy to fix that.
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Virtual Panel: The Current and Future State of RIA
InfoQ recently conducted a virtual panel on the current and future state of RIA and Ajax technologies. The panel features a number of valued contributors to the community including Dion Almaer, Jnan Dash, Didier Girard, Peter Pilgrim, Tim Sneath, and Ryan Stewart.
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Merapi Project : A Bridge Between AIR and Java
Adobe Flex and AIR have strong ties to Java in their history, yet Adobe AIR has no native way to use Java on the client. The community has offered its own solution in the Merapi Project.