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The TAC 2008 Team
Posted in General Posts by Kalpana Mada on 06. December 2008
This is the team which made the The ActionScript 2008 Singapore a grand success.
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RichFLV: The Sole FLV Editor
Posted in Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash by Kalpana Mada on 21. September 2008
FLV is a file format used in delivering video over the internet using Adobe Flash Player. Most internet geeks find it close to impossible to edit an FLV file since you can hardly find an application that does the work. But if you dig a little deeper, RichFLV exists which could be the only app that edits FLV.
RichFLV is a free Flash video editor for the Adobe Air platform used in free track-style editing for FLV files from any embedded Flash video. The installer for its latest version is just 592.3 KB, which expands to 723.4 KB upon installation. It can read FLV Metadata, read/edit/modify/delete cuepoints, export the FLV to various formats (mp3, JPEG, PNG, SWF, XML), and jump forward and backward.
The app can be used to merge sections of clips together, export and import audio or video to more convenient formats, and do lots of other editor-style operations on Flash video. One stumbling block, however, is its thickset memory usage.
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Latest AJAX Framework ZK 3.5 Launched
Posted in AJAX by Kalpana Mada on 18. September 2008
The most recent version of AJAX framework, known as ZK 3.5 has been released sporting several new features.
ZK 3.5 comes with Comet server push, Grouping Grid/Listbox , and more layout components. The ZK team also developed a more improved Boderlayout and Window component. Morevoer, these components are built to be more collaborative, and more sophisticated with a brand-new style of theme. ZK 3.5 also includes the concept of moldSclass which simplifies the job of modifying layout of ZK components.
ZK is an Ajax Java framework shorn of JavaScript. It has, however, a direct RIA, more than 200 Ajax components and markup languages, and develops Ajax/RIA as simple as desktop apps and HTML/XUL pages. It also enables rich UIs for web applications with least programming.
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Google APIs Employed in AJAX Mashups
Posted in AJAX by Kalpana Mada on 18. September 2008
The AJAX World RIA conference will be an event full of tips and tricks in business survival and gaining web success. One of the numerous subjects being chewed over in the conference will be integrating several Google APIs with AJAX mashups.
In a session with speaker Chris Schalk, different techniques in assimilating AJAX applications with OpenSocial APIs and Google Friend Connect will be deliberated. Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate who works to promote Google’s APIs and technologies. He is currently engaging the international Web development community with the new OpenSocial API.
AJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Among the Google APIs deemed to work with AJAX mashups are Google’s AJAX APIs comprised with Maps, AJAX Search and Feed.
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HeatMap Featured in Adobe Flex
Posted in Adobe Flex, Rich Internet Applications by Kalpana Mada on 17. September 2008
Adobe Systems has decided to highlight HeatMap in its Adobe Flex 3.
A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors. It has been used for exhibiting areas of a Web page most often scanned by visitors which is also integrated in web analysis tools.
Adobe Flex 3 was officially released on February 5, 2008. From its beta version, it came out with major enhancements which include integration with the new versions of Adobe’s Creative Suite products, support for AIR. In addition, Flex 3 now supports the addition of profiling and refactoring tools to the Flex Builder IDE.
Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
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Microsoft Hosts AJAX World RIA Conference
Posted in AJAX, Microsoft WPF / Silverlight by Kalpana Mada on 17. September 2008
The World RIA Conference and Expo will kick off on October 20, 2008 in San Jose, California. The three-day event will present major industry keynotes from of the most highly-respected executives in the industry, Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform.
Scott Guthrie, who will be speaking on the last day of the event, runs the development teams that build ASP.NET, Common Language Runtime (CLR), Silverlight, Windows Forms, Internet Information Services 7.0, Commerce Server, .NET Compact Framework, Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio Tools for WPF. He is best known for his work on ASP.NET, and was promoted to Corporate Vice President in February 2008.
Guthrie will be discussing Microsoft’s goal to advance it web standards and Rich Internet Applications. He will be showcasing Visual Studio, CSS, JavaScript, and 3rd party AJAX framework support. Furthermore, he will be presenting ASP.NET MVC and its aim to create light-weight standard web solutions. Another hot topic will be Microsoft’s technique in having Silverlight, AJAX and media enable a new generation of Rich Internet Applications.
Kevin Lynch, on the other hand, will be keynoting on the second day of the conference. Lynch is one of the brilliant minds behind Rich Internet Applications which was introduced in a white paper on March 2002 by Macromedia. He also has a vast knowledge on Acrobat and PDF which are now two of the most important elements in Adobe.
