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.
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 [...]
Anil Channappa, the product manager at Adobe for the LifeCycle Data Services product says they are going to support REST architectural styles in their product line. Such addition would allow Ajax/HTML and Flex UIs to not only co-exist but cosume data from services using the same infrastructure. Sounds like a good idea. Our best wishes [...]
Frank Sommers of Artima posted a story titled — “Has JavaFX Hurt Client-Side Java?” — yesterday. He argues that Sun’s focus on promoting JavaFX has taken its focus off Swing. He says Swing is a popular and well adopted technology for cleint side desktop applications and will gain from inclusion of productivity enhancing improvements.
In addition [...]
Greg Wilkins has a great post on Comet benchmarking and scalability testing. He says that although a Chat application has become the defacto example for demostrating Comet’s capabilities, it may not be the most accurate example for testing Comet’s scalability characterstics. He suggests that a stock update example may be possibly more accurate. In the [...]
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.
Discover the possibilities of the new drawing APIs added in Flash Player 10. Learn how to make use of the new vector type to streamline path data and utilize new triangle APIs for creating 3D graphics. Leran to store drawing commands and data inside reusable data objects.
