Conference News

Ubuntu Here We Come! - Java Finally To Become 100% Open Source

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:45:00 EDT

With only two weeks to go now before JavaOne, its annual Javaganza for developers, Sun has revealed that Java is at long last to be made 100% open source. 'We're trying to get Java into places it's never been before,' Rich Sands, group manager for developer marketing at Sun, told an interviewer on Tuesday.

AJAXWorld and Bear Stearns

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:00:00 EDT

This was the first time I've included into the list of the RIA players a little known product called Curl. Even though this language was created in MIT, it's mainly used in Japan. I had a chance to spend an hour with Curl folks today, and it seems that this language may be a good fit for RIA that require solid processing power on the client. I need to spend more time studying this language to form an opinion about this language Curl.

Adobe Puts Out AIR for Linux

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:30:00 EDT

Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company says Linux developers can use HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy to desktops across operating systems.

Windows Mobile Discussion During iPhone Developer Summit

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:15:00 EDT

During the Q&A period after one of my sessions at the iPhone Developer Summit last Thursday, there was someone there from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence. She asked myself and some other folks who were lingering nearby to describe, in our unbiased opinions, what we thought was wrong with Windows Mobile.

Adobe Hits Record Revenues

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:45:00 EST

Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in its enterprise business. Creative Suite 3, which started coming out in April, includes upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator and software acquired with Macromedia like Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. On a non-GAAP basis Adobe earned 49 cents in Q4, a penny more than Wall Street expected.

Back by Popular Demand, AJAX Bootcamp in Santa Clara, California!

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the SOA World conference. I am very impressed with TIBCO GI and Sun jMaki

AJAXWorld Conference $250 Savings Deadline Expires Friday, August 17

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:00:00 EDT

AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA tools, including a Diamond track on OpenLaszlo and sessions on Microsoft's Silverlight, Adobe's AIR and Sun's JavaFX.

Freely Available "SizeableTitleWindow" With Adobe's ColdFusion/Flex Connectivity

Wed, 23 May 2007 22:00:00 EDT

In playing around with the ColdFusion/Flex wizards, I found that Adobe includes a really nice resizeable closeable window. When I get more time, I'll integrate this with my MaximizeRestorePanel class.

"Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar Report: "It's an Exciting Time To Be a Flex Developer!"

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:15:00 EDT

At the first-ever 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar last month, Luis Polanco - Adobe Senior Product Manager - really piqued everyone's interest with his introduction to Apollo: Adobe's Next Generation Client. Although people came to this Flex Seminar already quite aware of what Flex is, I believe that many were not aware of Adobe's Apollo initiative.

"It's a Hit!" – Early Verdicts Come In on "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:45:00 EDT

'Seems like a lot going on here,' wrote John Dowdell; 'The place is pretty packed. Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits,' wrote Flash guru Jesse Randall Warden. 'Loooots of demos. And that's exactly what I came for,' wrote arpit. The blogosphere has been giving its early verdict on SYS-CON Events' 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar...and the overwhelming verdict would seem to be that it was a hit.

Mansour Raad's Mapping Mashups Wow the Audience at "Real-World Flex"

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:30:00 EDT

The irrepressible Mansour Raad opened the eyes of the 'Real-World Flex' audience wide on Monday, as he demonstrated the extraordinary power of Adobe's Flex by demo'ing a mouth-watering sequence of 'mapping mashups' drawing on the full power of ESRI's astonishing GIS data combined with the presentation power of Flex.

New York Flex Users Group Launched at "Real-World Flex"

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:15:00 EDT

Registration opened yesterday - at the 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar being held by SYS-CON Events - for the New York Flex User Group. The group will serve as a central meeting place to exchange ideas, solutions and network with other Flex developers.

Adobe Flex Moves To Center Stage in New York City at "Real-World Flex"

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:45:00 EDT

The historic Grand Ballroom of The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan again looks fantastic and Adobe's Dave Mendels (pictured) is keynoting which is certain to be a huge hit with the audience because he'll incorporate live demos etc.

i-Technology Blog: Forget Murder and Mayhem — At "Real-World Flex" It's Business As Usual

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:00:00 EDT

Courtesy of August 10's terrorist twist of fate, this blog has been handwritten. I am typing it now only because what is important, wherever terrorism or threat of terrorism is concerned, is to maintain Business As Usual, so as to minimize disruption.

Adobe Announces MAX 2006 Conference and Fourth Annual MAX Awards

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:15:00 EDT

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference, to be held Oct. 23-26 in Las Vegas. MAX 2006 will give developers and designers a forum to network, share ideas, get hands-on technical training from certified experts, gain new skills and learn about new and emerging Adobe products and technologies. Adobe also announced the call for entries for the fourth annual Adobe MAX Awards, which recognize customer achievement in eight different categories.

AJAX and Flex: Developers Can "Get the Best of Both Worlds," Says Adobe's William Wechtenhiser

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:15:00 EDT

Two months ago - March 13, 2006 - William Wechtenhiser, Director of Flex Enterprise for Adobe, was interviewed by SYS-CON.TV. See the interview, conducted by SYS-CON Media group publisher and editorial director Jeremy Geelan, recorded live at the 'Real-World AJAX' One-Day Seminar in New York's Times Square. Hear about ways to use Flex in an AJAX environment, connecting your AJAX apps with Flex widgets - how you as a developer, in other words, can get the best of two worlds.

Laszlo and Adobe Presenters Augment and "Flex" AJAX Development at Real-World AJAX Seminar

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:30:00 EDT

The recent Real-World Ajax Seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York offered a tour de force of Ajax approaches, including many presentations that spoke of augmenting and 'flexing' Ajax beyond its basic definition.

Favorite Flex Builder Shortcuts

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:30:00 EDT

I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts. Some of these are actually Eclipse shortcuts, but regardless, these are some of my favorite:

Real-World Ajax: Adobe's Coenraets Adds Flex to Presentation

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:30:00 EDT

Adobe Flex Evangelist Christophe Coenraets showed how the company's Flex product (acquired via the recent Macromedia acquisition) extends the Ajax approach to web application development, in a presentation at the Real-World Ajax Seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on June 6.

Extend AJAX with Adobe Flex

Wed, 31 May 2006 09:15:00 EDT

Adobe Flex is a complete application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications within the enterprise or across the web. Leveraging the ubiquitous cross-browser Flash Player, Flex enables developers to deploy applications that have the responsiveness and richness of desktop software and reach of the web. And by combining the best of AJAX and Flex, developers can now build next generation expressive, interactive applications that include vector graphics, audio, video, and charting.

JBoss Uses Adobe Flex to Build New Web-Based Mail Client

Tue, 23 May 2006 10:30:00 EDT

The JBoss Mail Server (JBMS) has been recently re-branded for its upcoming 1.0 release as 'JBoss Collaboration Server.' The web-based mail client component of the whole collaboration server package, says JBoss's Andy Oliver, is 'spellbinding.' The JBMS team used Flex 2.0 from Adobe.

"Real-World Flex" by Adobe's Christophe Coenraets

Tue, 23 May 2006 06:00:00 EDT

Some people take the dog for a walk, other go play a round of golf. Not Christophe Coenraets. His idea of a good time is to illustrate Flex and JMS integration by extending a simple 'realtime feed' application that he built a while back! Web Developer's & Designer's Journal is proud to bring you each month two of the month's best tips from Adobe's intrepid Flex Hero.

JavaOne 2006: How Adobe Can Attract Java Developers to Flex 2

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:30:00 EDT

Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the pricing policy to bring Flex 2 to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they should offer Eclipse-based Flex Builder IDE for free.

IBM's Open AJAX Expands with Adobe Flex, Backbase, Many Others

Wed, 10 May 2006 10:00:00 EDT

New OpenAjax members announced today include, Adobe, Backbase, Fair Isaac, ICEsoft, Innoopract, Intel, JackBe, Opera, SAP, Scalix, Software AG, Tibco and XML11. These new members join the initial members, including BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo!, Zend and Zimbra.

Adobe Flex 2 Beta 3 Is Being Released Today

Tue, 09 May 2006 12:00:00 EDT

Flex 2 Beta 3 becomes available to the general public today. I'm glad to be a part of this exiting and vibrant community of people. In my opinion, Flex community carries lots and lots of positive energy these days. I've been participating in all phases of pre-release Flex testing, and can state that lots and lots of people have contributed into making this product a state of the art tool. Flex online user's forums are growing at the speed of sound.