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Developers want Ballmer to show money
Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers. Read more »
Adobe tools put desktop apps in the browser
Adobe is preparing to open source development tools that will enable existing desktop and server software to run in Web browsers, according to reports. Read more »
Mono brings Silverlight and Adobe AIR closer
Miguel de Icaza, who heads up the open source Mono project, has provided an update on a project to create Silverlight applications that run out of the browser, moving a small step toward what Adobe Systems offers with AIR. Read more »
Silverlight update fights back against Adobe's AIR
On Monday, Adobe released the long-awaited AIR download for running Web applications offline, but Microsoft is readying an update to its Silverlight platform that it hopes will keep Web developers in its camp. Read more »
Adobe updates Flash Player, Flex tool
Adobe Systems on Wednesday in the US plans to release upgrades to its Flash Player software and Flex development tool for building Web applications. Read more »
Adobe aquire Macromedia
With its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems is buying into a crucial battle to shape the next generation of Web application development. Read more »
Adobe plots its path on the Web
Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business. Read more »
Adobe AIR brings online apps to the desktop
AIR, or Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a download that lets Web applications run on a desktop. With AIR applications, people can work offline and drag and drop items like graphics or text between Web and desktop applications. Read more »
Adobe opens up tech warchest in fight with Microsoft
Adobe Systems detailed a number of technology projects and products at its Max 2007 developer conference on Monday and gave glimpse of how it intends to make more money from online services. Read more »
Schwartz: Java FX can take on Flash
Java FX -- which is geared to make it easier to build flashy Web sites and Java desktop applications -- is ready to take on Adobe Systems' Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight software, according to Sun Microsystem's chief executive. Read more »
Features (25)
Deciphering the term "rich Internet application"
Web 2.0 has become a cliched term when it comes to describing websites. A new term has popped up to cover online applications: RIA, or rich Internet application. Does it mean the same thing as Web 2.0? Read more »
Uncloaking 'invisible' Flash Web content
Adobe announced yesterday that it was providing optimised Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic Web content and RIAs that include SWFs. It sounds exciting, but what exactly does it mean for Web searchers, Web masters, and Flash creators? CNET News.com asked Adobe, Google, and Yahoo and got some answers. Read more »
Getting to know ColdFusion 8
In the final interview of our MAX07 series, we talk with Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager ColdFusion, and discuss the release of ColdFusion 8 Read more »
Metaliq flexes its creative expression
Metaliq build applications with Flex and Silverlight -- leaving them in the interesting position of playing two sides of the rich Internet application platform field. Read more »
Starting with Spry
Spry is intended to be a way of easily implementing Ajax; designers with entry level HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience should find Spry an easy way to integrate content. Read more »
Flex: The new face of design and development
Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around. Read more »
XML--Rodney, are we there yet?
After initially creating a lot of buzz in the late days of the dot-com boom, XML seemed in danger of becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of the technology world. Now, it appears that XML might finally be getting the respect it deserves in the marketplace. Read more »
Use XML to drive a DHTML menu
Populating your menus from an XML file that can be dynamically refreshed on every page allows you to mix common elements with user- and page-specific elements, and lets you build a unified menu. Read more »
Using AppleScript to build Mac OS X applications
You can easily build applications that use the Aqua UI and interact with other applications on your Mac. We'll show you how. Read more »
Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world
Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. Read more »
Blog (4)
Adobe's MAX Conference 2007, Day One Keynote
-- The big event of a Flex, Flash or ColdFusion developer's year is Adobe's annual conference held this year in Chicago. Builder AU's Andrew Muller attended this year and reports on the first day's opening. Read more »
The Tamarin Seed
-- In announcing that they've contributed the source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) to the Mozilla project Adobe has done something really exciting today. Read more »
Salesforce.com flexes its on-demand platform.
-- Salesforce.com has included Adobe Flex functionality to it's Apex platform. The move means that developers using salesforce.com's Apex platform can now deploy rich Internet applications using the Flex toolkit. Read more »
Express Yourself!
-- Microsoft has released a community technology preview of the new Expression Web Designer, their new flagship Web development tool and competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Read more »
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