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 Remember Hamlet and the quote, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"? While in this case it isn't a lady, the question still applies to Apple's CEO.
Steven P. Jobs posted a 1,700-word letter on Apple’s Web site on Thursday, explaining the company’s decision not to allow the multi...May. 6, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,214 |
 First of all, this change is a stab in the back to Adobe, that invested heavily into enhancing the upcoming CS5 release with the ability to EASILY create iPhone applications in ActionScript. Apple kept quiet (chuckling in the bushes) for all this time and made this licensing change jus...Apr. 10, 2010 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,695 |
 Adobe has announced that they made a deal with Google: the new releases of Chrome Web browser will be packaged with the latest version of Flash Player. Even though the only person I know who uses Chrome is my younger son (he just says it's cool), this is an important announcement.
W...Apr. 1, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,802 |
 Our new book "Enterprise Development with Flex " made the Amazon bestseller's list of ... Java books:
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This list is refreshed every hour so I'm not sure what place you are going to find it at, but at the time of this writing it's #20.
Help us to move up the l...Mar. 31, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,588 |
 When O’Reilly’s sent us a book cover design for approval, it was a no brainer. Three authors hence three chickens. Anatole immediately said that he recognized Victor and myself, but was not sure if the third birdy looked like him. No biggies.
We’ve approved the cover, but somewher...Mar. 24, 2010 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,546 |
 “They pulled me back in.” – The God Father.
I’ve received some interest/emails about TwitURL – our Map/Reduce as it applies to CEP (cloud event processing) project. Seems that people would like to see the results of these processes visually. Who can bla...Mar. 1, 2010 10:45 AM EST Reads: 1,430 |
 The recent announcement of iPad has ignited yet another wave of emotional discussions around the role of Flash Player in the evolution of mankind. People easily take sides and everyone seems to know what’s right and what’s wrong. Actually the word ‘’people” is too vague in this conte...Feb. 6, 2010 11:00 PM EST Reads: 5,522 |
 Pardon me for adding yet another iPad analysis (certainly, when a computer product launch makes it into Doonesbury, we have crossed a new threshold of hype), but one thing actually missing from the copious words and videos on yesterday’s event at Moscone was the simple fact that we hav...Jan. 29, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,015 |
 This article offers a solution for handling of null values for numeric data types in Flex/Java projects. Currently, every time there’s a Flex/Java update, we end up replacing the original nulls with zeros when the user didn’t actually change that value. This article ia a silver bullet...Jan. 9, 2010 04:30 PM EST Reads: 3,366 |
 After teaching our popular advanced Flex master class in New York, Boston, Toronto, London, and Moscow, we are hitting the beer capital of the world: Brussels, Belgium. This class is scheduled for the first days of March, and we hope that Flex 4 will be officially released by this date...Jan. 6, 2010 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,039 |
 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 res...Dec. 12, 2009 10:30 PM EST Reads: 2,607 |
 Do you know, is there a better way for businesses to meet online, present projects, and share calendars and ideas anytime, from anywhere? Are you ready to share your experience?Small- and medium-sized business owners can compete for a chance to win up to $2,000 in a reward card and a f...Dec. 11, 2009 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,030 |
 When I was selling software, one of things that came up and that I was coached to use as a selling tool was the whole issue around what is OK and not OK about using Adobe Flash.There were a few schools of thought or lines of attack, depending on how you looked at the world.1 - the Fla...Dec. 2, 2009 09:45 AM EST Reads: 1,731 |
 In the story, I also noticed that Amazon also put out a new software development kit for .NET and support for private content in Amazon CloudFront – the company’s content delivery service. This is the kind of support that enables, say, a website that sells digital products, to restrict...Nov. 26, 2009 10:15 AM EST Reads: 2,012 |
 As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with...Nov. 6, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,537 |
 A new search site is in beta called DeepDyve that has some promise. First, they claim that they index millions of medical papers from paid journals and free sites. The problem in the past is that this content wasn’t too readily available. Yes, there is Medline, but not a very user-frie...Oct. 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,264 |
 The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next practices in business service management from a third-party point of view. The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstr...Oct. 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,268 |
 Moore's Law states that computer system performance/price ratio will double every two years. And that was very much my expectation when Good Data started using Amazon Web Services almost 2 years ago. But I had to wait until today to see Moore’s Law at work: Amazon announced 15% d...Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,730 |
 According to the CEO of Adobe America, Adobe company is planning to transplant its flash player to iPhone.
Adobe CEO indicated that Adobe may cooperate with Apple to ensure the smooth flash player application on iPhone in Adobe company’s first quarter performance conference early this...Oct. 20, 2009 10:51 PM EDT Reads: 3,054 |
 Three years ago, I was calculating the cost of attending JavaOne conference. Thanks to the crisis, the conferences got cheaper, but arestill not affordable for many software developers. I’d like to offer you a legal way to get more than 80% off the registration price at Adobe MAX tha...Oct. 1, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,839 |
 Watch MAX keynotes, streamed live from Los Angeles-register now. On October 5th and 6th, Adobe MAX Online will feature the keynotes, streamed live, highlighting the newest and most exciting developments in the world of technology. Join 10 minutes early and participate in the backstage ...Sep. 29, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,298 |
 Well-known as CEO of Adobe Systems, Chizen transformed the company into one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. During his tenure, Chizen tripled revenue and transformed a company known mainly for its...Sep. 18, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,429 |
 Jon has a point; Microsoft’s restricted (i.e., Express) editions are as free as the open source alternatives. This is undeniably true, since the purpose of many software vendor’s “Express” edition is to compete against open source on price. However, the difference is that with open sou...Sep. 12, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,555 |
 First, yes, screen readers can read Flex applications. And yes, its fairly easy. But, I’ll discuss how in a future post.
But, if you’d rather send people to your old HTML version of your site when using a read, there is good news. Flash Player has the ability to detect if a screen r...Sep. 8, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,383 |
 The Open Ajax Alliance is a standards organization with the mission of ensuring interoperability within Web based Ajaxified applications. One of their standards relates to intercomponent communication - the ability to subscribe and publish messages which can then be picked up by code w...Sep. 8, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,279 |
With the release of Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5), Adobe introduced the concept of the layered PDF. A layered PDF contains optional content that can be displayed or hidden by its reader. A layered PDF is a document that was originally generated by software with layer-generating capabilities. For... Sep. 4, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,874 |
 While many see Microsoft Silverlight as an Adobe Flash killer, I actually think Adobe should rejoice that Microsoft is competing with Adobe on its own turf (i.e., media plug-ins) rather than putting all its energy, as it once did, into Web standards and innovation (IE 5.0 was the most ...Aug. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,144 |
 The popularity of widgets these days has brought to attention the need for interoperability, i.e. for widgets developed for one site or platform to be able to run in other sites and widgets developed by different people to be able to work with each other.
So much so that I know of ...Jul. 30, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,288 |
 On3 has some excellent ColdFusion Classes scheduled during the next few months to celebrate the grand opening of our new headquarters and training center location on the 16th Street mall in Denver. The new address starting on August 1st will be: Denver Petroleum Building, 110 16th St, ...Jul. 20, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,941 |
 A perspective client showed me a Web page from Adobe’s Connect Now. Check this page out before reading further: https://connectnow.acrobat.com/
“Yakov, I want our new application to be like that one. The page comes up really fast and it’s very responsive. Can you create our Flex app...Jul. 17, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,053 |
 Adobe has re-opened the "Adobe Flex Builder 3 for unemployed developers" program. It means that
"Adobe Flex Builder 3" software is currently available for free, while supplies last, for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed...Jul. 13, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,733 |
 At Mezeo Software, we're pleased with the rapid adoption of our platform in the service provider market across three continents. Our success is validating our strategy that there is a significant margin opportunity in cloud storage, and that service providers will want to provide thei...Jul. 8, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,837 |
 I've missed the Flash Camp Keynote in San Francisco where Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch mentioned that AIR reached over 200 million installs. The Adobe AIR Team blog wrote that the Acrobat.com application provided with Adobe Reader continues to be one of the most popular applications.
Unf...Jun. 16, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,707 |
Did you notice our subscribers list update? Now, you can receive Graphic Mania all posts and and free resources updates right to your email address, in full HTML and images. You can save the images and backgrounds you need directly to your computer and get the free resources download l... Jun. 16, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,604 |
 You want to establish a new business on the Internet because of all the advantages you know exist with doing business exclusively on the Internet. This article starts with the concepts of the Internet black holes vs. conservative new Internet business creation and construction.Jun. 15, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,617 |
 Yesterday, my colleague and I received notifications from MAX 2009 (the main Adobe annual conference) organizers that started with words “We regret to inform you…we were forced to make difficult decisions, which topics wouldMay. 30, 2009 08:06 AM EDT Reads: 1,749 |
 I've just discovered (don't know how old it is) this new presentation web tool released by Adobe on Acrobat.com Labs. Acrobat Presentation is a Flex application that adds to Adobe's online collaborative offerings (with Buzzword). Presentation allows you to create slides using the Power...May. 28, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,929 |
 "Mass psychology" scientists study this kind of phenomena and the "mass psychology of fascism" is of course the most famous lab case. The extraordinary experience SYS-CON Media lived through became part of a Forbes Magazine investigative cover story called "Attack of the Blogs" that fo...May. 26, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,772 |
 Being a big fan of streaming media, I have quite a selection on my desktop from RealPlayer, to Windows Media, to YouTube favourites, to Adobes quite interesting Media Player and even Miro. I would have Hulu too if it supported content streaming outside t...May. 15, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,934 |
Okay, maybe I do already love the Adobe RIA tools, but… if I didn’t, I’d be smitten with their latest offer to the community.
Once again, Adobe is reaching out to the community by giving away free licenses to their RIA development tools. Free Flex Builder licenses to ... May. 15, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 694 |
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