With the release of Flex
2, Adobe has introduced a
tool that makes building
rich user interfaces for
the Web easier than ever;
of course, as anyone
remotely plugged in to
the Web development
community knows, Ruby on
Rails has made c...
For over a decade now, we
have been trained to use
the 'back' and 'forward'
buttons in our Web
browser to review or
backtrack previously
viewed content. We are
trained to the point that
there are even keyboard
shortcuts. Unfortunate...
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) services
today are going
mainstream. Corporate
executives and
individuals at home are
demanding access to many
of the same GIS
capabilities previously
used only by engineers,
geologists, and
government officials.
PowerPoint has been
capable of accepting and
playing back videos for
quite some time, at least
as far back as Office 97.
In most cases the process
is quite simple. Go to
the Insert menu, click on
Insert Movies, and away
you go. At least in
theory.
I love the definition in
Wikipedia of Media
convergence: 'Media
convergence is a theory
in communications where
every mass medium
eventually merges to the
point where they are
indistinguishable to each
other due to the advent
of ...
The growth of Flash and
AJAX in Web applications
is driven by real market
needs - applications that
are visually compelling
and simple to use gain
faster adoption and can
be a competitive
differentiator, enabling
customers, employee...
Once upon a time, Sun and
Apple used to have about
the same market cap.
Today Apple has a market
cap of $63BN while Sun's
is just $17BN. Ahead of
Sun, unbeknownst to many,
is Adobe. Its market cap
today is $18BN. For a
company that ...
In this excerpt from our
book, Rich Internet
Applications, we'll cover
how to set up large
applications intended for
Web or, more broadly
speaking, distributed
deployment. As an example
let's consider an
enterprise application
tha...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha