Flex, RIA, Usability

Jeff Atwood over at his blog Coding Horror (which is one of my favorites) recently posted an article Usability is Timeless where he presents an extract from Jacob Nielsen’s latest book Prioritizing Web Usability. The extract shows how Nielsen thinks web usability issues have evolved from the time he wrote his first book on web usability… read more

Flex, India, RIA

John Koch (who manages Developer Relations for Adobe in Asia), two days back introduced me to Prayank Swaroop over email … Prayank who has been working with Adobe’s ColdFusion engineering team in Bangalore and is a known figure in the ColdFusion world has now taken up the responsibility of evangelizing Flex in India read more

Flex, FlexBox, RIA

I had first seen the app on a reflecting table look on Cynergy TV and I really liked it, so when I was building FlexBox I decided to give it the same look. Many people have recently asked me how I implemented that look … so I am posting this simple example to show how.

I have used Narciso Jaramillo’s LiveReflection component to achieve this. Thanks Narciso.

You can view the source of the example by right clicking on the example below. Let me know if you have any questions.

• View example in its own window
• View Source
• Download Source as .zip

AIR, Flex, RIA

Juan Sanchez of ScaleNine.com fame recently started a Flex and Apollo UI discussion group on Yahoo which will be used to discuss application skinning, styling, extending components to get a visual look you want, UI design practices, patterns, etc. for Apollo and Flex.

So if you are interested in making awesome looking Flex and Apollo applications.. go ahead and join the list.

Flex, India, RIA

I met Harish Sivaramakrishnan, who works with Adobe’s Flex Team here in India, at the recent get together of Flex developers in Bangalore and encouraged him to start an blog and share with all of us his knowledge of Flex….. he took my advice and has started off by posting some very nice components and examples. So go ahead and check out all the neat stuff.

Way to go Harish!!