Flash & Flex

What Computer Programming Language To Learn Next?

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:15:00 EDT

After all these rumors on Microsoft buying Adobe, several people asked me what do I think of it, and, of course the second question was (it’s always on the mind of every professional software developer), “What to learn next?”

Adobe Flash on the Road to Nowhere

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:00:00 EST

This Wednesday was probably the first day on the (potentially long) path to Adobe Flash decline: the most popular video site out there – YouTube – started offering videos in Flash-less mode for browsers which support HTML 5 and h.264 video codec. This means that today the option is available for Chrome and Safari. Then at [...]

Built4Flash Launched by Farata Systems

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:30:00 EST

There are about 250,000 developers working with Flex and AIR. If you add an army of ActionScript developers, this number will grow substantially. Where do you go if you have a technical issue while developing RIA? As of today, there no one place to ask questions and get answers. A respected forum flexcoders uses the outdated and hard to follow Yahoo! groups. Some people try to find answers visiting blogs they trust. Some developers post their questions on Twitter. About a year ago Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood released a well designed and easy to follow knowledge exchange stackoverflow.com, where people earn reputation by suggesting the right solutions to people’s problems. Flex/Flash/Air developers started to post their questions there among the plethora of questions on other technologies and programming languages.

Can Adobe Bring Its Flash Platform to the Living Room?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:30:00 EDT

“Consumers are looking to access their favorite Flash technology-based videos, applications, services and other rich Web content across screens," said David Wadhwani, General Manager and VP of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe, as the company behind Flash Video today announced the extension of the Adobe Flash Platform to connected digital home devices with an optimized implementation of Flash technology that delivers high definition (HD) video and rich applications to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living room.

Flash Player 10 Goes to Broad Beta

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Adobe Thursday turned its little piece of Disneyland for developers loose. The pre-release of Flash Player 10, a k a 'Astro,' which promises richer, more immersive Web 2.0 experiences, has gone to public beta ahead of general availability sometime later this year. It adds custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout and GPU hardware acceleration. Adobe thinks it's a game changer about what can go on the web.

Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EDT

Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of the whole magilla now. Gary Kovacs, VP of product management and marketing for the mobile and devices business, will be general manager of the unit, reporting to Lynch, replacing Al Ramadan, who is leaving.

Rich Internet Applications - State of the Union

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:15:00 EST

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET technologies or less known (as yet) yet AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo...

Farata Systems Announces Release of MyFlex.org at AJAXWorld Conference

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:15:00 EDT

Farata Systems, a leading provider of Flex and Java services and components has announced availability of the Alpha version of the first community site www.myflex.org that will become a repository for commercial Flex components and Eclipse plugins developed by independent vendors.

Passing Parameters to Flex That Works

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:30:00 EDT

Here's the assignment: write a Flex application that can run against different servers (dev, uat, prod) without the need to recompile the SWF file. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the URL of the server should be passed to SWF as a parameter, and we’ll do this by using a special variable flashVars in HTML wrapper. Flex documentation suggests to include flashVars parameters in the tags Object and Embed and read them using Application.application.parameters in AS3 code. At the time of this writing this does not work. But as the ancient saying goes, “Adobe closes one door but opens another”.

Flash Player 9 on Linux and Adobe marketing

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:15:00 EDT

Flash Player 9 enters pre-Alpha stage on Linux. Adobe marketing needs to work harder.

Business Intelligence in the world of Rich Internet Applications

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:45:00 EDT

We are about to enter a new era, when plain looking Web applications will gradually be replaced with RIA delivered over the Web that can actually land on the PC and work in a disconnected mode as well. How this will affect the evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) applications?

Adobe Flex 2 - Answering Tough Questions About Enterprise Development

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:00:00 EDT

There are cool software tools and there are practical tools. People who make their living by development of the enterprise Web applications, are very careful in selecting the language or technology for their needs. There is a huge difference in requirements for developing an application like Google maps and the enterprise-grade high availability business applications. Anatole Tartakovsky of Farata Systems is one of these programmers that know pretty much everything about Web development.

Teaching Java to Generate Code For Flex 2

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:00:00 EDT

It's a known fact that Java and Adobe Flex 2 compliment each other really well. But now accessing database becomes even easier with DAOFlex code generator.