InsideRIA

I Accept the "One Million Records" Challenge

2008-08-08T01:50:54Z

Earlier today, Richard Monson-Haefel posted here on insideria.com about the "One Million Record Challenge". I thought this was a pretty interesting test for any RIA platform, although it will yield wildly different results on different machines, and can't necessarily be used as a true benchmark. I decided to take on this challenge with Flex.

InsideRIA Session at MAX San Francisco

2008-08-07T15:45:00Z

InsideRIA will be holding its first official session at Adobe MAX this year in San Francisco. If you are going to be at MAX, please check us out. Here is the official information:

The "One Million Records" Challenge

2008-08-07T15:15:00Z

SAP's Web Dynpro can easily handle loading 1 million records into a visual table and sorting them - so too can Curl. Can your RIA platform of choice handle 1 million rows in a table?

JavaFX - Call for Questions

2008-08-06T11:33:23Z

Last week's release of the JavaFX Preview SDK brought a lot of buzz from all over the RIA landscape. There was a lot of good information, and many people admitted they still didn't know a great deal about JavaFX. So, here is your chance. We are going to compile a list of questions from the users here at InsideRIA and then send them on to some members of the JavaFX team. This is your chance to get your questions heard. So, bring on the questions by leaving a comment.

Transitioning from browser to desktop with Flash CS3 and Adobe AIR

2008-08-05T15:00:00Z

Assuming you are a Flash Developer and create websites and/or RIAs for a living (or for fun), how would you make the switch from browser to desktop development? With this guide I will lead you through this process step by step. As a sample project we will create a drag and drop mp3 player. The reason why is it encompasses most of the AIR APIs and no matter what the size, these steps can be applied to any project. Everything is done within the Flash IDE.

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 2

2008-08-03T18:39:20Z

The week on the Weekly RIA Round-Up we bring a new competitor to the RIA lineup with JavaFX, Silverlight counts down the days until its big show, Adobe lends Zend a helping hand, a collection of Silverlight tutorials are released, and OpenLaszlo connects with Netbeans.

iPhoneDevCamp II is underway!

2008-08-02T03:02:08Z

The second annual iPhoneDevCamp has just started here at the Adobe offices in San Franciso. There's about 300 people and I think most of them are planning to build an app or at least hack a little bit. The even runs from Friday night until Sunday night. The highlight of the even is certainly going to be the Hackathon where developers and designers will be splitting off into teams and trying to build an iPhone by Sunday afternoon for the grand demo. This year's event has 60 sponsors as well!

Poll Closes Today

2008-08-01T12:01:23Z

Just a friendly reminder that the poll we are conducting on the article named "The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0" by Colin Moock will be closing today. So, if you haven't voted yet, please do so here.

Hands On With JavaFX - First Impressions

2008-08-01T02:13:04Z

If you haven't heard the news yet, today Sun released the JavaFX preview SDK (previously covered on insideria here and here). I decided to dive and and see it for myself. Here's what I found (from a developer's perspective)...

What is the JavaFX Preview SDK

2008-07-31T16:44:17Z

JavaFX launched their technical preview today. I had the privilege to talk earlier this week with Joshua Marinacci one of the engineers working on JavaFX. I learned that the preview SDK that was released today is just a piece of the overall JavaFX puzzle.

JavaFX Preview

2008-07-31T14:30:00Z

Sun Microsystems releases a new preview of the JavaFX SDK available to everyone.

Should RIA Platforms be Backward Compatible?

2008-07-30T15:00:00Z

The Curl runtime doesn't support backward compatibility and its engineers think that is a feature rather than a problem. What do you think?

Handy Mockup Tool for RIAs

2008-07-29T23:03:00Z

I've been involved in web development for about 12 years now and have always been involved in the early stages and client facing aspects of the development cycle. More often than not I turned to very low-fi methods of sketching the early versions of a UI such as paper, whiteboard or Powerpoint. None of these are ideal and the early agreed upon designs seem to get lost along the way. Also it's hard to make changes to non digital mockups. Recently I've been playing around with with Balsamiq Mockups which seems to be a great quick and dirty design tool for developers, designers and those who aren't tech savvy at all.

Ribbit is Acquired by British Telecom

2008-07-29T18:16:45Z

Big news for one of the shining lights in the VOIP, Flex and AIR world this morning. Ribbit was acquired by BT. Ribbit has been acquired by BT one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services. This marks the most important day yet in Ribbit’s history. As part of BT will be able to more quickly extend our vision beyond Silicon Valley and bring our products and technology to the entire world. We couldn’t be more excited than to announce this new partnership.

LFFS - 13: Flex Builder Part 3 - Introduction To Debugging

2008-07-29T15:00:00Z

Inevitably, the process of coding your Flex applications will sooner or later result in some bugs. As a continuation of our coverage of the Flex Builder I.D.E., we focus this time on the built-in debugger tool, and a few of its capabilities. Those new to Flex programming should take away from this a basic understanding of how to use debugging as a means to pinpoint any problems in their code.