Category Archives: Ajax

Adobe AIR on Linux: Pre-Beta Testers Needed

By James Ward | Published: February 20, 2008

Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime for deliverying rich Internet applications on the desktop. Developers using Flex, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax can easily build applications for the desktop using Adobe AIR. As of today there have only been releases of Adobe AIR for Windows and Mac but Adobe is committed to [...]

Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex, Linux | 45 Comments

What is a Rich Internet Application?

By James Ward | Published: October 17, 2007

The more software experiences become like the natural world the more users are pleased with those experiences. One of the most powerful, understandable, and universal concepts in computing is the idea of a desktop containing files and folders. Users embraced this metaphor in their software because it modeled their natural world experience. There is [...]

Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex, Java, RIA, Silverlight | 17 Comments

Flex & Ajax Developers: 8 Days Left to Win a $100,000 Vacation

By James Ward | Published: August 28, 2007

Step 1) Build a kick-a AIR application with Flex and/or Ajax Step 2) Submit it to the AIR Developer Derby contest Step 3) ??? Step 4) Profit! Unfortunately I can’t participate because I’m an Adobe employee. But I wish you good luck and if you win please let me know if you need a travel companion (or 2 [...]

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Census RIA Benchmark Updated with GZip and Laszlo

By James Ward | Published: August 15, 2007

I’ve just posted the newest version of the Census RIA Benchmark application which compares data loading via various methods in Ajax, Flex, and now Laszlo. When I first began talking about the results of these benchmarks and heavily advocating AMF for large data sets some people suggested that my results were flawed because I [...]

Also posted in Flex, Laszlo, RIA | 23 Comments

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 Flex, Open Source | 66 Comments