This week I had the privilege of attending and helping with some Silverlight in casual games presentations at the XNA Gamefest conference happening in Seattle. I say...
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Silverlight at Gamefest
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Alltop RIA
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In my blog-browsing on Friday, I noticed a graphic on Tim Heuer's site about Alltop ... I'd never seen that before, so thought I'd see what it was about. Turns out it's...
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Rice meets top North Korean diplomat in Singapore - The Associated Press
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BBC NewsRice meets top North Korean diplomat in SingaporeThe Associated Press - 43 minutes agoSINGAPORE (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met North...
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CURL BenchMarketing
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CURL released a language performance benchmark and press release highlighting how much faster their language is than ActionScript 3. At first glance it seemed very...
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Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition
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Here's another monthly installment in my news wrapup series. I've fallen into publishing them at the end of the first week of the month, because so much stuff seems to...
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Adobe's Integrated Runtime - more than just hot air?
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Last week, Adobe released version 1.0 of it's newest product: the Adobe Integrated Runtime, in short: AIR. Ever since the release had been announced I've been wondering...
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Revisiting the Mozilla framework for RIA development
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A while back I wrote about the potential of the Mozilla framework as a platform for RIA development. Today, I found the first of what promises to be an interesting series...
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Making SL2 Video Player an Encoder Template
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Now that the Silverlight 2 Video Player is available from Codeplex, I wanted to make it a template for Expression Encoder. I’ll attempt to articulate the steps...
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Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
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The official guide to Adobe AIR, written by members of the AIR team, is out. One of the authors, Dragos Georgita is my colleague. He is the engineering manager for the...
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Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe
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Helping people engage with ideas and information is how Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe describes what his company does best. Adobe recently completed 25...
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Exciting 2008
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Hi all, Happy new year to all the readers!!! It's been a while since we post some interesting content on this blog. One of our new year's resolution is to start...
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The problem with SproutCore
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I’ve been meaning to sit down and this article on SproutCore ever since it shot to fame as the underlying client-side framework used to build Apple’s recently...
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RIA is slowly fading in terms of it's definition.
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When I first started the RIA Evangelism role in Microsoft, I had this nagging feeling that the term RIA was just all over the place. Depending on which technology you...
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Microsoft putting the I in Rich International Applications. Go RIA France!
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You see a lot about RIA online these days, even debates on the 3 letters, but Christophe Lauer has taken the initiative one step further and produced a RIA focused blog...
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SHARE Futures
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There’s an interesting post over on Ryan Stewart’s blog about SHARE, my favorite web service (sometimes) and my personal migraine (sometimes). Ryan wants to...
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Snackr: get your feeds together.
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You want to get your feeds closer? Check out this new application build using Adobe AIR and Flex 3: Snackr. Snackr is a RSS ticker that pulls random items from your...
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ActionScript 3 RIA Reference Guide
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Not sure if everybody out there came across that one yet. Adobe has published an ActionScript 3 Reference Guide booklet. Very nice and handy, pdf is available on...
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Building an RIA through Collaborative Design and Prototyping : Preamble
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We're in the midst of building an interesting Rich Internet Application for educational assessment using Flex. We've had a lot of success with our process thus far, so I...
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Providing startup parameters for Silverlight
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One of the things that makes Silverlight 2 great is the ability to create a very flexible framework application that others can use and can be embeddable with some...
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Rage Against the Machine: Apple’s Fall From Grace
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OK, I have to win some kind of award for most inflammatory (and misleading) post title for this one. Like many of you, I have been reading the numerous posts (see...