AIR, Flex, Java, RIA

In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo … In todays world Artemis is a community project to extend and enhance Adobe’s Apollo by connecting it with Java … the idea is to build very rich and interactive User Experiences for desktop Java applications in traditionally Internet based user interface technologies Flex/Flash/AJAX instead of using traditionally desktop UI technologies like Java Swing. read more

Flex, FlexBox, RIA

Silly as I am .. I was playing around with my domain settings and I ended up password protecting FlexBox … it was not accessible to everyone for about 15 minutes. I was not in front of the computer for this little while and when I get back i saw 8 emails from people asking … “What’s wrong with FlexBox?” … I have fixed the problem now and it would be great if someone could confirm that its all ok.

It feels great to know that people are finding FlexBox useful and are using it a lot. read more

Flex, RIA, SilverLight

WPF/e has been making news for a while now but I have been so busy,excited and engrossed in my Flex projects that I pretty much managed to stay indifferent and did not explore WPF/e much. After the christening ceremony yesterday, I just couldn’t resist and I started digging … read more

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