Flex RIA United
Rich internet/web/media technologies focused blog. Closely track the trend of latest web media technologies. Review startups and sites using RIA technologies. Give the best tips and insight on web usability. Share ideas to build more usable and beautiful web. Share the beauty and fun of the entertaining web. Covers on Flash/Flex/AIR, Silverlight, Sun JavaFX, AJAX and Ruby on Rails.
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latest 15 posts
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1.0Rich App for Rich Presentations
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1.04 Things Bad About PureMVC
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5.0An Excuse in Flash
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1.0Now and Then
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1.0Head for the head Now
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5.0A Most Simplest Addictive Little Game GoogleDrive
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1.0A Startup on Silverlight (thought was Flash)
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5.4Banned iPhone Apps and Workarounds
- History of RIA
- Digest Adobe CS4 Announcement
- Google phone is out, but…
- From Napkin to Flex Mockup
- ReadAIR Not Yet a Reader
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1.0Flash+Songs+Guitar Tabs+Timely Sync = Songsterr
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1.0Developers Care About Financial Market
Tuesday October 7th, 2008
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Rich App for Rich Presentations
From Flex RIA United, 13 hours ago,
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SlideRocket is a rich internet application in every sense of the phrase: rich utility, rich features, and rich look. It has been touted by the Flex community as the first and the best Flex app for a serious and a large-scale utility.
It is one of the competitors in the growing SaaS market of online office [...]
Monday October 6th, 2008
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4 Things Bad About PureMVC
From Flex RIA United, 1 day ago,
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Tech Per has another post to take a in-depth look at one of the ActionScript based framework, PureMVC. This time the post listed 4 things he hates about PureMVC. “hate” might be a strong word for a framework but I got his points. Framework is a tough business to get in only because it just [...]
Saturday October 4th, 2008
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An Excuse in Flash
From Flex RIA United, 3 days ago,
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I know we have been very irregular this week. My mistake and my apologies. Does this stand a chance as an excuse?
(Image Courtesy: XKCD)
Thursday October 2nd, 2008
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Now and Then
From Flex RIA United, 5 days ago,
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Google does a lot of interesting things for its users, trying to involve and interest us more and more. Yesterday, it made its first ever search index (Jan 2001) available to the public as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations. Like a wayback or internet archive machine, only, way faster.
Here are the results of a [...]
Monday September 29th, 2008
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Head for the head Now
From Flex RIA United, 8 days ago,
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This is to remind all those interested in attending the <head> conference to head to this page and register before the $99 early-bird tickets close tomorrow. You can also micro-sponsor the conference for $199.
<head> is a global web conference being held from Oct 24-26, 2008 in what is being touted as a “green” way. Green [...]
Saturday September 27th, 2008
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A Most Simplest Addictive Little Game GoogleDrive
From Flex RIA United, 10 days ago,
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And it’s very challenge as well.
Once you pick a location and the Google map is centered, a small car will show up. Then you start using the arrow keys to drive it to a street.
Once you are on a street it will ding you and stop if you try to drive it off street. [...]
Friday September 26th, 2008
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A Startup on Silverlight (thought was Flash)
From Flex RIA United, 11 days ago,
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Do you guys know the little thing called Tamagotchi came from Japanese girl? It’s made little girls giggling around world. It’s a little electric and imaginary pet they have to take care of.
It’s OK if you have no clue. Just head to the new startup called Shidonni, where you (or more likely a kid) can [...]
5.4
Banned iPhone Apps and Workarounds
From Flex RIA United, 11 days ago,
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That Apple has been banning iPhone apps from its App Store is no news to you. I myself have made a passing mention of it a couple of weeks ago.
1. Andrew Mason’s “Pull My Finger”, a silly, funny if you like, app that makes fart noises was rejected on grounds of limited utility. Andrew has [...]
Thursday September 25th, 2008
History of RIA
From Flex RIA United, 12 days ago,
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The history of RIAs has been at the back of my mind for quite sometime now. I was hoping to learn a little about it and share it with you, but I failed miserably. I confess that my quests have only been shallow googlings. The inane investigation invariably raised another associated curiosity: History of the [...]
Digest Adobe CS4 Announcement
From Flex RIA United, 12 days ago,
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Adobe announced the release of Creative Suite 4 (CS4) and claims CS4 that “radical workflow breakthroughs, new levels of Flash expressiveness and integration anchor Adobe’s biggest software release.” Man! that’s quite a statement. Let me try to digest some of it:
Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bring down the walls between designers and developers
The wall between [...]
Wednesday September 24th, 2008
Google phone is out, but…
From Flex RIA United, 13 days ago,
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It looks not as cool as iPhone. Developers might buy it because it’s another sandbox to play with. Consumer? for $25 bucks more, most of them will go with iPhone, I think. How do you think?
Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
From Napkin to Flex Mockup
From Flex RIA United, 14 days ago,
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Here is the idea. When you are mocking up an UI design on a piece of napkin, people (users) would think you are just brain storming the UI. They won’t be too nervous about the UI because the sketch won’t imply the final look-and-feel. Now you want to start designing the UI with a more [...]
ReadAIR Not Yet a Reader
From Flex RIA United, 14 days ago,
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After reading several positive reviews about this new way of reading feeds in Google Reader, I installed ReadAIR, tried it, and uninstalled it before starting this review. I found the post reading too long as I wrote it, and so changed it from a mostly negative review to a list of various issues that I [...]
Monday September 22nd, 2008
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Flash+Songs+Guitar Tabs+Timely Sync = Songsterr
From Flex RIA United, 15 days ago,
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Everyone has a rock star inside. That’s why (I believe) most of us tried played guitar once, even though we haven’t touched it in years, or ever again. Songsterr is a place to call out the rock star inside you.
If you know what a guitar tab is then the Songsterr gives you live guitar tabs. [...]
Sunday September 21st, 2008
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Developers Care About Financial Market
From Flex RIA United, 16 days ago,
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The financial market melting down is on news all of the world. Can we developers on main streets or code streets hide behind duel LCDs and IDEs? We shouldn’t and we can’t.
Here is a blog posting on NYT could give you a full view of what’s going on. Forget about the news and those after-fact-wise-ass [...]