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First Steps in Flex

Drunk on Software Episode#8 talks about Bruce Eckel and James Ward’s book: “First Steps in Flex”.

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Written on January 28, 2009 | Posted in Featured Video | Leave a comment

What’s Coming From Android

Watch what’s coming from Android. A short video on Android “Cupcake”, the new Android development build.

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Written on January 28, 2009 | Posted in Videos | Leave a comment

Looking Ahead to the Next version of Flex

Looking ahead to the next version of Flex by Ely Greenfield

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Written on January 27, 2009 | Posted in Videos | Leave a comment

How to Increase Followers on Twitter

Kevin Rose founder of Digg and co-founder of Revision3 and Pownce has 88,000 followers on Twitter. He recommends 10 effective ways to increase followers on Twitter, which are as follows:

Encourage your followers to retweet your links.
Fill out your bio, so people get to know who you are.
Put links to your Twitter profile everywhere — Digg, LinkedIn, Facebook, [...]

Written on January 26, 2009 | Posted in Featured | 2 Comments

Carl and Richard of .NetRocks talk to an esteemed panel of experts – Josh Holmes (Microsoft RIA Architect Evangelist), Leon Gersing (Teligent), James Ward (Adobe Flex Tech. Evangelist) and Jesse Liberty (the Silverlight Geek) at CodeMash 2009. Listen to it now. (Episode #412 Live From CodeMash 2009.)

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Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in Featured | Leave a comment

Will RTMP Knock Out Comet?

Adobe’s announcement today to publish the RTMP specification has filled the RIA community with as much hope and promise as Obama’s swearing in as President has to everyone in America. RTMP is the protocol that enables audio and video streaming in the Flash Media Server and the LifeCycle Data Services (LCDS). Its a robust protocol [...]

Written on January 20, 2009 | Posted in News | Leave a comment

RIAStats: Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight

RIAStats, based on users viewing the site or using the stat-tracker API, is tracking the popularity of the two RIA platforms — Adobe Flash Platform and Microsoft Silverlight. Current results based on over 500,000 data points shows that Flash Player 10 is doing well with over 40% adoption and Flash Player 9 is on over [...]

Written on January 19, 2009 | Posted in News | 1 Comment

jQuery 1.3 Released

jQuery celebrates its 3rd birthday today and keeping up with its tradition the jQuery team announced a major release on this day. jQuery 1.3 includes:

Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine.
Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist.
jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.
No [...]

Written on January 14, 2009 | Posted in News | Leave a comment

Can Carol Bartz Save Yahoo?

Carol Bartz who ran Autodesk between 1992 and 2006 is reported to have accepted the offer to become the next Yahoo CEO. With Carol coming in, Susan Decker, Yahoo’s current President leaves Yahoo. The big question for the new CEO now is — how fast can she turn Yahoo around?
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