Emily Lewis has an excellent series of posts that explain Microformats at an easy and gentle pace. If you have ever wondered what Microformats are and wanted to learn about them, then this may be one of the best free sources to start with. The series of blog posts are as follows:
Getting Semantic With Microformats, [...]
Google Maps has been at the forefront of mashups, facilitating the creation of many interesting applications over the last few years. One of the more recent ones are sound maps. Essentially you record sounds, tag them to describe them and then show them up next to the location where they were recorded. The most recent [...]
I wrote a post conference analysis on Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco. You may find it interesting. Here is the link to the post : How Was Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco?
James Weaver in a post titled : Sanity Will Be Restored to Internet Application Development on December 2, 2008, proclaims the coming of JavaFX 1.0. To quote James Weaver –
“Yes, that’s a bold statement, but I’ve waited 13 years to be able to say it. If you’ve followed this (http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/weblog/) blog or have heard me speak about [...]
Potix Corporation the creators of ZK announced the availability of a Firefox add-on called ZK Jet. ZK Jet can be used to create Ajax applications using ZK, without installing any servers. In addition, it integrates well with Firebug. Watch a screencast that explains how to use this new and useful Firefox add-on.
Adobe launched a social networking site for its user group members. The new service makes it easier for you to find a user group in your area; join one if there is one out there or start one if there isn’t one out there and get connected with the community. There are over 400 user [...]
Ali Daniali brings developers together to create a RIA for Second Harvest Food Bank, an agency that provides food to 176,000 each month. Great coding effort for a good cause.
A preview version of Flash Catalyst, earlier codenamed as project Thermo, is finally available. Sitepoint blogger Josh Catone has a good write-up: Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference, that introduces the tool. If you want to learn more about Flash Catalyst look up the site on the tool on Adobe Labs.
Adobe AIR 1.5 is now available. Some of the new features are as follow:
Includes Flash Player 10 — AIR 1.5 now includes the new and powerful version of the Flash Player. Therefore, you can do all the good things like custom filters, blend modes, and fills with Adobe Pixel Bender, include the new 3D effects [...]
Tour de Flex is a new and improved explorer to check out the capabilities of Flex. Its now available as an AIR desktop application.
To quote Flex.org:
Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party [...]
Learn about the next generation technology for video object manipulation from the Adobe reserach group.
Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.
