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 I needed to do a quick proof of concept of displaying search results in Silverlight recently and it actually proved easier than I thought it was going to be. I tried this once before in a beta version of Silverlight 2 and it was much more difficult at the time.
I was able to easi...Aug. 3, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,531 |
 We pleased to announce the release of VS.Php 2.7 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. This release introduces a number of new key features and enhacements of existing features.
Silverlight
One of the most exciting new features is Silverlight integration. With VS.Php 2.7, ...Aug. 3, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 986 |
 Exadel Flamingo RIA framework comes with CRUD application generator. Using the maven-based generator, you can easily generate JavaFX user interfaces connected to Spring or Seam back-ends. In this post I showed how to do it Seam. Let’s do the same with Spring framework. There ar...Aug. 2, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,259 |
 After a lot of effort by the ZK team we have released a preview version of our latest product, ZK 5!
The preview holds many new benefits over the ZK 3 series, firstly the move to the LGPL license is fantastic for those looking to integrate ZK with other frameworks that have different ...Jul. 31, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,146 |
 The popularity of widgets these days has brought to attention the need for interoperability, i.e. for widgets developed for one site or platform to be able to run in other sites and widgets developed by different people to be able to work with each other.
So much so that I know of ...Jul. 30, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,949 |
 With its latest software update, open source groupware innovator Open-Xchange is previewing the ability to integrate social network information. For example, adding LinkedIn contacts into the Open-Xchange address book.Jul. 30, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,076 |
 More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. Many customers have told me that they love Entity Framework and LinqToSql, but that they are not always able to use them in their projects just yet. In fact the number of folks that are using ADO.NET DataSet, ...Jul. 28, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,223 |
 Love the thought or loathe the thought, Google Latitude is now available for the iPhone in US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and I'm sure that those folks worried about privacy will be in the latter group. Google latitude runs in the iPhone's Safari Browser and can be saved as a B...Jul. 27, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,942 |
 Despite the title of Andrew Conry-Murray’s article in InformationWeek — “Why Business IT Shouldn’t Shrug Off Chrome OS” — it’s on balance quite negative about the prospects for enterprises adopting Google’s upcoming operating system. Andrew argues that enterprises are going to want hyb...Jul. 25, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,268 |
 As jQuery’s popularity in the .NET community has risen over the past year, one recurring theme I’ve seen is the desire to refactor away the details of using it to call ASP.NET AJAX services. Whether through helper function or specialized jQuery plugin, I’ve seen numerous methods propos...Jul. 21, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,401 |
 The technology is growing very fast these days and there is also considerable rise in the competition in making new technological advancements. The most popular flash software Adobe Flash has now found its new competitor from Microsoft’s Silverlight 3. It is a recently plug-in device f...Jul. 21, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 975 |
 The training covers the Flex client, Eclipse & Flex builder, the Flash virtual machine & how the Flex application development process is designed. It covers Actionscript, how events are handled, and layouts in a constraint based container. The material is similar to the first three day...Jul. 20, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,123 |
 When you’re working with JSON, performance and security are often opposing, yet equally important concerns. One of these areas of contention is handling the JSON strings returned by a server. Most JavaScript libraries do a great job of abstracting away the details, but the underlying p...Jul. 20, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,267 |
 Stephen Chin has launched a new web site to help grow JavaFX community, JFXtras - an open forum for the entire JavaFX community. Check it out here. Stephen is also the author of JavaFX Dzone Refcard.Jul. 20, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,082 |
 On July 30th @ 8pm I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User’s Group. I encourage you to come and bring your questions on Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services..
Brad Abrams - Silverlight ready for business and .Net RIA Services
- Thursday July 30, 2009, 8:00PM PDT
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 I gave a talk this week at the Mountain View JavaScript meetup hosted by Google at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Thanks to Michael Carter who hosts this event on a monthly basis. The event was also video recorded by Google and is being made available on Youtub...Jul. 20, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 932 |
 With Firefox 3.5 all the major browsers (including IE!) support native drag and drop. The SC.Drag interface in SproutCore was designed from the beginning to follow the same protocols. That means once someone SC.Drag to use native drag events, all your SproutCore-drag code will automa...Jul. 19, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,133 |
 The coding portion of SproutCore 1.0 is nearly complete, so it’s time to start work on some of the non-code parts of the SproutCore project.
Today I just push a brand new version of the SproutCore website. The design is very simple, but unifies the wiki, blog, and main site so that...Jul. 18, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,220 |
 In the original demo I showed getting your data from a database directly from the web tier. Many enterprise customers have found that it their systems are more maintainable and secure if they isolate the database access behind a set of web services possibly in a DMZ. This means that ...Jul. 18, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,459 |
 Apple is a “change” company. Look at their track record: Mac II, iMac, iPod and now the iPhone. What has not changed, however, is the view of Apple a company that delivers only consumer based products. Apple simply is not perceived as an Enterprise company. Apple is working to change t...Jul. 17, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,643 |
 A perspective client showed me a Web page from Adobe’s Connect Now. Check this page out before reading further: https://connectnow.acrobat.com/
“Yakov, I want our new application to be like that one. The page comes up really fast and it’s very responsive. Can you create our Flex app...Jul. 17, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,440 |
 Gartner released five criteria to determine whether the pile you’ve been sniffing is in fact what you think it is. In general, I think this type of shoehorn analysis is dangerous because it never really goes deep enough. They are invariably so nebulous that in some small way my hacker ...Jul. 16, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,290 |
 We are proud to announce the release of ZK 5 preview edition with some major changes, including a move to the LGPL license, a revolutionary architecture client+server fusion offering the same productivity gains with more control and the use of jQuery allowing you maximize the user expe...Jul. 15, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,533 |
 During the last several years our company have been involved in development of many enterprise Flex project. This article is an attempt to summarize challenges and offer solutions that we've developed, tested and successfully implemented for our customers.Jul. 14, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,618 |
 I really like Google. They produce easy to use applications that work great. I use their search engine about a hundred times a day. Their applications make sense. But this announcement gave me goosebumps. If you didn’t hear that Google has announced that in 2010 consumers will have a c...Jul. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,163 Replies: 2 |
 Today we released Exadel Studio JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse version 1.0.1. Here is what’s new in this version:
New icons (screen shots - this was a previous minor update)
Updated menu actions (now available directly on the perspective)
Compiled with JDK 1.5 for Mac OS suppor...Jul. 14, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
 It’s Friday, and it’s sunny out here in Seattle, which means that no work will get getting done. In lieu of work, I did some digging with my contacts on the interwebs, and it turns out there is are a couple of screen grabs of the new Chrome OS floating around out there. I [...Jul. 13, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,454 |
 Here is something you may or may not know. JSF Mojarra comes with a small extension tag library with three tags: regular expression validator, credit card validator, and focus setting tag. They are available since JSF version 1.2_09, but maybe even earlier (I didn’t check).
Pag...Jul. 13, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,769 |
 A (Nearly) Bulletproof Web Design & Development Project Checklist for clients and designers.
If you’re aiming to agree a fixed price for the development of the website, as we do, ensure the project goes smoothly before you start, by communicating with your client at the outset. They...Jul. 13, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 858 |
 Adobe has re-opened the "Adobe Flex Builder 3 for unemployed developers" program. It means that
"Adobe Flex Builder 3" software is currently available for free, while supplies last, for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed...Jul. 13, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,193 |
 Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the brand new update to .NET RIA Services and the update the example from my Mix09 talk Jul. 13, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,567 |
 No, that isn’t a homophonic mistake. Dan directed my attention to an interesting article recently, |
 Business applications often access very important data. It is important that you can audit, restrict and control access to your data. Let’s look at how to use .NET RIA Services and SL3 to do that. Using the Silverlight Business Application Template this is super easy to do.. By defa...Jul. 13, 2009 10:56 AM EDT Reads: 1,092 |
 With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Jul. 10, 2009 01:06 PM EDT Reads: 871 |
 Without availability scalability is irrelevant I really enjoyed Jeff Atwood’s recent blog on Scaling Up vs Scaling Out |
 Funny thing about the hype-cycle surrounding cloud, it just doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Indeed, some are clinging to it like it was their long lost child – it in this case being the hype cycle, not the concept of cloud. But seriously, lets consider exactly what... Jul. 9, 2009 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 943 |
 CIOs and IT professionals can take a few pages from the Michael Jackson playbook. By looking at some of the best practices the King of Pop used to change the face of music, IT managers might find inspiration to change perceptions about IT in their organization.Jul. 3, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,333 |
 Why are we so confident about the first point? Because IMAP support in WebMail Pro now includes quotas for automatic mailbox size management, direct search on IMAP server, and new easy-to-use approach to deleting e-mails.
And what's so special in cPanel support? Because it's now rea...Jul. 1, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 962 |
 I'm currently at a wedding, killing time reading various blog feeds. In that task, I just read a generally insightful commentary thanks to particularly ridiculous question in a post by Eric Knipp at Gartner. In the post he asks if The Cloud Will Save The World?Jul. 1, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 974 |
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