Two LINQ to SQL Myths
Not true – you can start with code and create mappings later. In fact, you can write plain-old CLR object like this:
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JFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008
There were several JavaFX-related announcements and demos at JavaOne, not the least of which is the preview release of the JavaFX SDK due in June... more »
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JavaFX To Be Closed Source, Non-Free?
I’ve been aware of JavaFX, Sun’s new Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, since it was first announced a year ago at JavaOne 2007 (and before... more »
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JavaFX is a good thing! Really it is!
This article explores the many reasons why JavaFX is good for the Java platform.
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What's Actually Interesting About JavaFX - From The Technical And Business Perspective
Java FX wasn't that great news. Netbeans 6.0 plugin was already available for ages (at least months) - so you could play with it. However there... more »
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Java Rockstars Panel @ JavaOne
A short description of the event.
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Asynchronous Execution in Silverlight, GWT and Javascript
When Rich Internet Applications reach a certain level of complexity, you start having concurrency problems similar, but not identical, to the... more »
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A Roadmap for JavaFX - Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? - JavaOne 2008
I really wanted Sun to announce that JavaFX was fully cooked and 1.0 was ready - pick up your CDs on the way out the door. But, they didn’t. To be... more »
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Mac Style Flash Menu in AS3 with source
Nice Mac Style flash menu built using ActionScript 3 with source code provided and several implementation tips in the comments.
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Silverlight's Fate
While Microsoft is busy churning out the newer versions of Silverlight and we are all learning to cope with plurality and continunal changes in the... more »
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Update of the RIA Wars and Adobe's Open Screens Project
A brief account and commentary on Adobe's Open Screens Project and then a dip into thinking about the current state of RIA platform strategies.
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Bait-and-Switch and Software Licenses
What happens when you switch licenses after your project has a large user base?
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Knowing the State of a JavaFX Script Animation
In the Reading 'tween the Lines - Simplified JavaFX Script Animation Syntax post, I showed you how to start, stop, pause and resume an animation. In... more »
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Is the Expansion of JavaFX Too Late?
JavaFX will be getting some more spotlight at this year's JavaONE conference. But is it too little, too late? A year has passed since the initial... more »
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Adobe AIR Resources for the Ajax Developer
I've been doing a fair amount of writing and developing with Adobe AIR over the past few months and just thought I'd take a moment to wrap up some of... more »
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Flex Fanatics
I can understand why people like to stand up and defend their favourite language. The flex fanatics over at Farata Systems took it one step too far by... more »
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RIA is Dead! Long Live Web Applications
Kirill Grouchnikov 
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RIA (the acronym) has jumped the shark. I find that I can no longer use RIA to describe anything anymore. The definition has been watered down and... more »
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101 Adobe AIR Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness
The Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR is a runtime environment for developing rich Internet applications. These applications can be deployed as a... more »
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Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Epilogue)
Thanks to Brian E. Fox, I managed to avoid duplication of Flex remoting configuration files in this project. It requires a bit of additional... more »
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All you wanted to know about JavaFX - RIA Weekly #013
This week, Ryan Stewart and I talk with Joshua Marinacci from the JavaFX team at Sun. He tells gives us a re-cap of how JavaFX came to be, the tools... more »
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Reading 'tween the Lines - Simplified JavaFX Script Animation Syntax
As mentioned in the first Tetris post, the JavaFX Script animation syntax is undergoing simplification. Today, I'd like to show you a very basic... more »
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Scene Graph Project, first steps
First steps in making some simple shapes, transformations and animations using scene graph.
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Scene Graph and morphing with effects from the effects framework
This will show you how can a simple java ria scene graph application look like. The post shows morphing combined with effects.
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Native font rasterization limitations in Java 6 Update 10
2 issues with native font rasterization on Java 6 Update 10.
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Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 4)
In the previous articles in this series, we did the boring stuff of setting up Spring, Hibernate and MySQL on a sample todo list server on one side,... more »
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