Posted by: bsinfotech on: 12/06/08
SkinToWinChallenge is over!!! Winners are declared!!! The quality of the themes is really great. Especially the first and the second prize are looking really cool. Congratulation to Alberto Alcaraz and Nahuel Foronda. I had also submitted the almost seven themes for the competition with motivation of “Air Notebook” and “Adobe MAX” but [...]
Posted by: bsinfotech on: 01/12/08
In this article you will learn how to integrate Flex 2 with Ruby on Rails and a MySQL database by building a simple issue tracker application. By following the steps in this tutorial, you will also learn how to add functionality to the application, such as adding a new bug to the database, reading existing [...]
Posted by: bsinfotech on: 01/12/08
I was reading a post by Ryan Stewart, who is my main source of news and information about anything to do with RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Wikipedia defines RIA as “web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications.” When I think of RIAs, I usually think of Adobe’s Flex or Microsoft’s [...]
Posted by: bsinfotech on: 01/12/08
I’m going to be attending the 360Flex conference March 5-7 this year in San Jose, and since registration just opened, I wanted to let people know about it. I tend to be a big fan of conferences that are more developer focused because I think you learn a lot more and you get to talk [...]
Posted by: bsinfotech on: 01/12/08
I think that people still finding new and interesting features of old browsers is a good sign that Ajax still has some gas left. Even more recently there are developments around charting, comet, sound and widgets. For those reasons I am not convinced that new “RIA” frameworks like Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX are the nirvana [...]
Posted by: bsinfotech on: 01/09/08
Today, Adobe released the Beta 3 versions of both Adobe Flex and AIR. You may ask “Why should I care about beta software”? Well, both of these applications will be impactful if you are building, or considering building, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). While not the only solution on the market, Flex is one of the [...]
