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Posts Tagged ‘rich internet applications’

Book Review Of Flex 3 Component Solutions by Jack Herrington

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Using encapsulated components instead of reinventing wheels in code have been around from some time, for both GUI elements and nonvisible functional blocks such as communications protocol handlers. Here is a brief sampler of some for Adobe’s Flex 3 development tool.

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Chasing Your Tail With Cascading Style Sheets

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Software development may well be the closest activity to perpetual motion that can be achieved in the real world. Approaches and techniques once thought new are more often than not a bad solution to an old problem. Cascading Style Sheets is one of those ancient wheels badly reinvented.

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Book Review: Pro JavaScript RIA Techniques by Den Odell

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Rich Internet Applications are often the basis for Web 2.0 sites, where increased functionality comes at the price of more extensive development and coding efforts. Here’s an excellent overview from a JavaScript perspective that will help anyone and everyone who wants to master this, from beginners to seasoned professionals.

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Increasing Search Engine Visibility For Flash Content

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Online searches driven by keywords get their results from spidering text in pages’ html scripts. Completely graphics driven web pages, like pure Flash or Rich Internet Applications with Adobe’s Flex or Microsoft’s Silverlight, are invisible to search engine scans. Here’s a way to quickly and easily add searchable content.

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Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects Book Review

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

If digital image manipulation is like painting, then this book by Todd Yard is like listening to a painter describe a desired artistic effect, using Actionscript as a set of brushes, the classes as a palette, and Flash as the canvas.
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Old Software Approaches Are New Again

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Rich Internet Applications, aka RIAs, are encountering some interesting problems that seem new to a lot of developers. Like many other things, these are really old problems that were solved a long time ago.

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‘Papervision3D Essentials’ Book Review

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Written by Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder, from Packt Publishing, also available from
Amazon
; ISBN 9781847195722. Probably should have been titled The Missing Manual if that hadn’t already been taken. Interesting that it took two Dutchmen to come up with a book in English, published in England, indicative Papervision3D’s international activity.
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Flex Providing Users Increased Security

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Adobe’s Flex has a lot going for it for Rich Internet Applications. Some of the benefits are indirect but no less welcomed.

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