How to get Maven to build a JavaFX app on an Ubuntu machine.

Appcelerator's VP of Community, Matt Quinlan, gave an excellent talk to the Denver Open Source Users Group about his company's flagship product. Appcelerator seems at first blush to be another JavaScript framework wanting to make AJAX and UI widgets easier, but it does much more by bringing bringing delcarative, remotable messaging to HTML. Put another way: the Observer pattern is back in your web UIs, and it misses you.

In his latest InsideRIA.com post, Richard Monson-Haefel, Curl's VP of Developer Relations, asks designers, developers, and architects why they didn't choose Curl. Why didn't you choose Curl? Add to the ongoing discussion here.

Adobe has released a new vector graphics specification for Flex called FXG, but some feel they should have kept with the standard SVG spec and extended it, instead of muddying the water.

Every designer & developer loves handy tools that simplify frequent tasks. And, even if you’ve a complicated software that does the same thing, usually it is much more effective to run a tiny, fast-loading application that does the job. This is a list of 27 functional Adobe AIR applications that can help a web designer to design & develop better and faster.

Written by Lennon and McCartney and released on the B-side of The Beatles' Hey Jude single record 40 years ago, these lyrics to "Revolution" have been a rallying cry for causes and corporations. As I was checking referrers to this blog today, I noticed that a fairly new site name RIA Revolution contains a link to my Some Perspective in JavaFX post. According to their About page, "RIA Revolution is a community site for all things RIA [Rich Internet Applications]. The site features news, stories, podcasts, screen casts and videos to keep you updated about the happenings in the RIA World." As I mentioned, it's a new site, but I'm excited about its "revolutionary" tone, and about watching it continue to be populated with "all things RIA".

Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Sun’s Jacob Lehrbaum. We start out discussing the larger context that RIA technologies are finding themselves in and then narrow down to JavaFX in particular. On that topic I ask Jacob to clear up the what and how questions around JavaFX and open source, we discuss how the JavaFX Preview release has been fairing, and then get into some of the future road-map for JavaFX.

Via translate.google.com : The purpose of this day was to develop a management application playlist of music. En promoteurs des méthodes Agiles, les spécifications furent données sous forme d’un Product Backlog. In promoters of Agile methods, specifications were given as a Product Backlog. Trois sprints d’une durée de 90 minutes ont permis à tous de suivre l’évolution des différentes réalisations. Three sprints for 90 minutes allowed everyone to follow the evolution of the different outcomes. Un web service SOAP fournissait les différentes données: Artiste, Album, Titres et Pochettes d’album. A SOAP web service provided different data: Artist, Album, Securities and album.

Adobe's new Pixel Bender technology in Flash Player 10 is great because it allows totally custom realtime graphics filters and fast parallel computation. But the specialized Pixel Bender language means the learning curve can be high. Conduit is a visual tool that makes it easy to take advantage of Pixel Bender without writing code.

Introduction to Adobe Air technology.

A very small but useful article to begin playing with ASCII values in actionscript 3.

This is a comparison of the graphics rendering performance of Silverlight 2 in different browsers.

Adobe reported that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe AIR in the first six months since its release. Numerous Fortune 500 companies, in addition to start-ups across a variety of industries, have deployed hundreds of AIR applications to engage with customers, partners, and employees in new and compelling ways.

URLKit forms the base of the deep linking support inside of Flex 3. If you are a Flex developer this a tool that you should certainly be familiar with.

Adobe is nearly done with a version of its Flash Player for the iPhone that could be released 'in a very short time' if it passes Apple's App Store screening process, an Adobe official said this week.

A chapter-by-chapter review of "Silverlight 2 in Action".

When Chris, Kevin and Ryan approached Alex and I to develop Wufoo Unplugged, a desktop application to view Wufoo form data offline, we ended up choosing .NET because in addition to it offering the features we needed like multi-threading, file system access and pre-built Lucene libraries, it was also the technology that Alex and I were the most familiar with at the time. We weren’t officially part of the Wufoo Team then (Unplugged was basically our hiring interview) and so we weren’t asked to develop in an environment outside our comfort zone. As you can imagine, choosing a Windows-only solution left a number of Mac users feeling a bit left out. And so hoping to help out other developers thinking of creating their own desktop applications that will work on both PCs and Macs for their web services, I thought I’d do some research into the current state of cross-platform Rich Application Architectures and present my findings here.

After digging and some prodding by a PM at Microsoft, I realize that the relative URI story in WebClient is different that I expected. I am not sure whether this changed from previous versions but Beta 2 and the RC this is the way that Relative URI's work in WebClient...

Flex is getting a lot of buzz lately. A lot of people may be interested in using it just because they’ve heard good things, but they aren’t really sure if it fits in with their current skills or their project needs. In this article I’ll discuss the top 10 things you need to know about Flex, whether you’re considering using it for your personal site or for your business.

In our projects, we often have a requirement of accessing Cross Domain Services in Silverlight. There are certain steps to be followed to able to do so. But what if the service is hosted in a console application or a windows service? In this article, we will follow a step by step approach and discuss how to create and consume a WCF Service hosted in a console application using Silverlight. We will also explore how to provide a Policy File at a given URI using REST.

This post is about the Browser Manager class in Flex 3. Using the browser manager, a flex application can handle the events when the URL of the browser is changed (like by selecting Back or Forward buttons). This post also tells about how can you change the title of the container html of your flex application.

Are you wondering what the state of RIA Frameworks were these days. Have more competitors popped up? How easy are they? What frameworks are out there now?

Silverlight 2 RC0 is out. This is a condensed list of the most important new items you should know about RC0 and some important new trends Microsoft doing with Silverlight. This isn't your simple Beta 1 -> Beta 2 upgrade.

First, let me apologize for resurrecting the very humble JavaFX program shown below, but I want to keep this example very succinct. This will enable you to use it as "starter code" for JavaFX applet deployment. Note: To see more functional JavaFX programs, please see articles in the JFX Custom Nodes category.

Richard Monson-Haefel of Curl, Inc. goes over some comparisons of Flex and Silverlight on InsideRIA.com