Category Archives: Open Source

RIA Weeky #41: Portals and RIAs – Flex and Open Source

By James Ward | Published: February 3, 2009

Last week I was able to be a guest speaker on the RIA Weekly podcast. In the episode Coté and I talked about RIAs in Portals, Flex and Open Source, and other various topics. Give it a listen and let us know what you think.

Also posted in Flex, Portal, RIA | 1 Comment

Upcoming Conference Presentations: GeoWeb, OSCON, and LinuxWorld

By James Ward | Published: July 21, 2008

Over the next few weeks I’ll be presenting at a few conferences: GeoWeb – Map Based RIA Development Using Adobe Flex and AIR with Duane Nickull OSCON – Flex: the Open Source SDK for RIAs also with Duane LinuxWorld – Building Rich Internet Applications with an Open Source Stack I hope to see some of you at those conferences.

Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex | 1 Comment

Adobe Open Source Presentation in New York Tomorrow

By James Ward | Published: May 14, 2008

Tomorrow night I’ll be presenting at the New York GNU/Linux Meetup Group about Adobe Open Source – including the Adobe Flex SDK, Mozilla Tamarin, Adobe AIR (pieces like SQLite and WebKit), and BlazeDS. More details here. Hope to see you there!

Also posted in Adobe AIR, BlazeDS, Flex, Linux, Tamarin | 1 Comment

Tamarin-Tracing: Mozilla’s New VM for ECMAScript 4

By James Ward | Published: December 18, 2007

[Update: QVM was an internal Adobe codename. The new VM's name seems to be "Tamarin-Tracing". For more info on this new VM read the announcement by Edwin Smith. Edwin doesn't explicitly state that the VM is for mobile devices but it is hinted at. However the research paper that Edwin [...]

Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 5 Comments

Exchange MAPI Connector for Evolution

By James Ward | Published: October 29, 2007

Just a quick note to say how excited I am that Evolution will be getting a MAPI Connector! I’ve been using Evolution with Exchange since 2003. Thankfully it works – but for me it crashes quite often. So I’m really excited about the prospect of a better Exchange connector. Screen scraping [...]

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Ajax and Flex Data Loading Benchmarks

By James Ward | Published: April 30, 2007

For close to a year I’ve been working (in my infrequent spare time) on an application that shows differences in data loading for RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), comparing Ajax methods, Ajax frameworks, and various Flex methods. The results are pretty surprising. The screenshot below is from a test run I did with the [...]

Also posted in Ajax, Flex | 66 Comments

Open Source Flex: Top 10 Reasons To Rejoice

By James Ward | Published: April 25, 2007

Flex is going Open Source! This is really, really exciting news! I’ve been looking forward to this moment since before I worked at Macromedia. This will certainly change RIA programming in a major way. But what does this mean for you: 1) There will be a formal process for contributing to Flex. 2) [...]

Also posted in Flex | 14 Comments

Eckel Flex eSeminar; Buni Joins java.net; Twitter Addiction

By James Ward | Published: February 28, 2007

Yesterday was an exciting day! Bruce Eckel and I hosted an eSeminar about Flex & Java. We had a few technical difficulties, but overall it was very good. You can watch the recording here: https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/p16565134/ Bruce and I have a few more eSeminars coming up, find out more info here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=462539&loc=en_us Also yesterday the Open Source [...]

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How I Overcame My Fear of Flash

By James Ward | Published: February 21, 2007

Long ago I remember the first Flash site I ever saw–spinning gears replaced typically boring site navigation and sound illuminated a previously silent web. My jaw dropped and I said to myself, “I want to build these kinds of websites!” After playing with Flash Professional for days, I realized that my mathematically inclined [...]

Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Linux | 50 Comments