Aptana Jaxer 1.0 and Jaxer Pro 1.0 are released. Jaxer is a unique Ajax server which includes the full Mozilla Firefox engine on its server side, along with a JavaScript framework, so that you can use the Ajax technologies to build your entire web application. Download it and try it out for yourself.
Creating an MMO with Adobe Flex 3 in 59 Minutes! Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) technology has arrived in all forms of gaming. Giants like Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft’ define the commercial-subscription genre, and newbies like Webkinz and Club Penguin have burst on the scene with amazing financial success.
In this session MMOs are viewed as the [...]
Google announced that all Gmail IDs are now OpenIDs. With Yahoo, Google and Microsoft all supporting Open ID we will have the big guys become OpenID providers, but till they don’t start becoming OpenID consumers as well, you will continue to create multiple ids. Read more at “OpenID being Balkanized even as Google, Microsoft sign [...]
Watch Justin Putney’s session from FlashCamp 2008 at San Jose. He talks about an extension that combines multiple textfields into one editable textfield while retaining individual style properties. This will allow textfields to be recombined, once broken, in XFL documents for easy editing. It allows for different orientations to work with mult-lingual support, as well as [...]
Watch Alex Notov explore the possibilities of using Pixel Bender Filters to manipulate webcam video feeds in real-time. (FlashCamp 2008)
Amazon annouced the availability of Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 on Amazon EC2 web services.
The pricing is as follows:
Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee.
Pricing for Instances Running Windows Server
SQL Server Express, Microsoft IIS and ASP.NET can be used on any Amazon EC2 instance running Windows Server for no additional cost.
Instance Type
Windows
Windows with Authentication Services
Standard [...]
When AOL acquired Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005, the blogs had a U.S. audience of 1.4 million unique visitors and were generating about $6 million in revenue. Today (after 3 years) it has 13 million uniques and revenues of about $30 million.
(Source: Weblogs, Inc. Three Years Later: Impressive Page View And Revenue Growth)
Check out Scott Guthrie’s latest set of links on ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight from his link-listing series. He also links to his really useful ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and the Silverlight Tutorials Page.
Event Summary
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket will be an exciting event coving Comet, HTML 5, the latest, and future enhancements to the web. AJAX became popular because it allows a browser to request additional information from the server. One major limitation of AJAX is that the browser [...]
Watch Silveira Neto’s demo of JavaFX version of Mr. Potato head.
Learn about the next generation technology for video object manipulation from the Adobe reserach group.
Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.
