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 SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and uti...Jul. 2, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,179 |
 In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker l...Jun. 22, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 80,406 |
 Acrobat.com, Adobe’s nascent, still-evolving online productivity software, moved out of public beta Monday and into its first foray into commercialization, ahead of any similar move into the cloud by Microsoft. The base widgetry will still be free but Adobe has created two paid subscri...Jun. 16, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,202 Replies: 1 |
 “Acrobat.com is poised to become the online destination for team collaboration, with the tools business people need to get work done faster, together, from anywhere. Our customers have moved from e-mailing multiple versions of documents back and forth to collaborating on documents dire...Jun. 15, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 773 |
 I just read SYS-CON's response to the recent attacks in Fuat Kircaali's Social Media Terrorists blog entry. I realized the email quoted at the end of Kircaali's blog was also copied to Ted Weissman of Lois Paul & Partners, a public relations firm with clients in technology.
If this...Jun. 12, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,996 |
 Learn how to digitally sign your applications on Adobe® AIR™ with a VeriSign® Code Signing Digital Certificate, which verifies the authenticity of the publisher and the integrity of the product.
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 The PDF format allows creating groups of mutually exclusive layers where showing one layer will automatically hide the other. These are called radio-button groups and defined using the RBGroups PDF keyword. One can also define which layers are visible by default and which are hidden, f...Jun. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 529 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR software for Linux® operating systems is available on Adobe Labs (www.adobe.com/go/airlinux). The Linux community of developers can now use proven Web technologies, such as HTML, Ajax, Ad...Jun. 1, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 978 |
 Adobe announced that House of Fraser, a premium U.K. department store group with 62 locations across the U.K. and Ireland, has achieved higher conversion rates, increased average order size and greater customer retention with the Adobe® Scene7® hosted rich-media platform.May. 28, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 954 |
 Even with these impressive first stats, Ulitzer users for the next 12 to 24 months will only be a fraction of the early adopters of tomorrow's social media tools. Ulitzer offers quality content under a managed environment. Google News keyword alerts are already contaminated with meanin...May. 1, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,176 Replies: 3 |
 Menus are an integral part of your life as a software user. You find them on the Web, in desktop applications, on your own operating system, and even on mobile devices like cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) . You often don’t realize how important menus are when you use...Apr. 24, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,161 |
 Ben Forta, Director of Evangelism at Adobe, will be presenting at the UK ColdFusion User Group meeting to be held on the 21st April at Adobe’s central London office.Apr. 24, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 520 |
 'Will Ulitzer and SocialYell Dominate News Content on The Web (Eventually)?' is the blog title of Gartner's Anthony Bradley. In his blog entry, Bradley writes: "Hype around Ulitzer.com (the social-journalism news magazine site) is climbing. At one point they were offering authors 200% ...Apr. 21, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,691 Replies: 1 |
Participants will learn how to increase workplace sustainability with 'eco-effective' communication and collaboration workflows. Made possible though a generous sponsorship grant from Adobe, the eSeminar supports the ISC's mission to increase the understanding of sustainability best pr... Apr. 17, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 729 |
 We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.
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 Here’s the roadmap for Clear Toolkit 4 for the year of 2009: 1. Offer data syncrhonization solution for AIR/BlaseDS applications - March 2009 2. Enhance Flex UI component to support PDF generation on the client - April 2009 3. Release documentation on classes from Clear component libra...Apr. 15, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,334 |
 Adobe and Facebook today announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Facebook Platform. Officially supported by Adobe and Facebook, the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook Platform is a free an...Mar. 31, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,392 |
 This week Microsoft will make a number of announcements in the RIA space. The rumor has it that Silverlight 3 is going to be out. The rumor has it that it'll start competing with Adobe AIR. Let's take a quick look at the Adobe's progress report in the RIA space.Mar. 17, 2009 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,917 |
 Yakov Fain, one of the top 3 Ulitzer bloggers, launched a new magazine on Ulitzer as a one stop shop for all Flex/AIR/Java developers who decided to use open source Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise rich Internet applications.Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,974 |
 What is important about programming languages is to understand the merits of each language and decide which one best suits the application, not only in technical terms, but also in terms of time-to-market, cost of development, availability of a skilled workforce etc.Feb. 17, 2009 04:10 AM EST Reads: 2,113 |
 Ulitzer to launch ColdFusion Developer's Journal 2.0. ColdFusion Developer's Journal was first launched 12 years ago. Ulitzer will bring more than 7,000 original CFDJ articles and ColdFusion authors from the archives to ColdFusion Developer's Journal 2.0 (http://coldfusion.ulitzer.com/...Jan. 26, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 1,184 |
 "By embracing Amazon Web Services to power this offering, Adobe combines its comprehensive enterprise solution with a cloud environment that knocks down barriers to productivity for enterprise developers worldwide,” said Kumar Vora, vice president and general manager for LiveCycle at A...Jan. 16, 2009 07:18 PM EST Reads: 6,514 |
 Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world. With the maturity of the specifications, Web Service technology, with its power of interoperability, is now the major enabling technology of SO...Jan. 14, 2009 09:59 PM EST Reads: 47,014 Replies: 1 |
 Adobe Monday means to announce that it has made its long-standing LiveCycle ES software accessible through Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3), figuring that this “sandbox in the sky” scheme will create more LiveCycle ES apps faster.Jan. 13, 2009 12:20 PM EST Reads: 6,106 |
 There are currently more than 200 RIA solutions available, and this number grows daily. Each RIA solution has its strengths and weaknesses, and the levels of security, accessibility, and integration vary. Choosing a suitable RIA solution for creating or enhancing Web applications becom...Dec. 30, 2008 06:00 AM EST Reads: 9,760 Replies: 2 |
 As fate would have it, Adobe picked the worst possible quarter to roll out the great update to its flagship Creative Suite widgetry. Because the economy is tanking, it hasn’t been selling the way it was supposed to. As a result, revenues came up short in the November quarter and Adobe ...Dec. 5, 2008 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,040 |
 Adobe and ARM are gonna put Flash Player 10 and AIR, the stuff of web video and rich Internet apps, on ARM widgets by the second half of next year. They mean phones, set-tops, MIDs, TVs, car mojo and personal media devices, which have so far only had access to Flash Lite, not the best ...Nov. 24, 2008 10:30 AM EST Reads: 3,476 |
Of all domestic air carriers, I like Continental the most. They showed Mamma Mia and the food was bearable. Last month, I was in the air for 14 hours flying to Japan, and now the trip across the USA is a piece of cake. I have only carry luggage with me. This small bag has all the cloth... Nov. 17, 2008 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,297 |
I’ll just give you one example. Last week my colleague and I were running a private Flex workshop for software architects of a large corporation who are about to start development with Flex. Needless to say that they are smart and experienced software professionals. Some of them alread... Nov. 17, 2008 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,405 |
 A round-up of the many themes and topics of interest to infrastructure architects, developers and IT managers featuring at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference is expecting a record turnout of senio...Nov. 17, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,904 |
AIR adds to Flex has a pretty straightforward API for working with local files and directories. There is a simple mechanism of installing and upgrading AIR applications. If you want, you can digitally sign them too. AIR 1.5 introduces local encryption, which means that you can encrypt... Nov. 17, 2008 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,760 |
 Reading conference speaker's agreements may reveal some interesting gems. Since I don't have a PR agent, I have to make the following public statement by myself: "I'm not going to damage anyone's reputation (including developers of PureMVC framework) for abuse of design patterns. I'm r...Nov. 14, 2008 05:30 AM EST Reads: 2,241 |
 The technology blueprint of President Elect Barack Obama, if implemented as promised, bodes well for the future of Cloud Computing. Let me consider some of the Barack Obama's Technology proposals and explain how it is relevant to the success of Cloud Computing. This is not a political ...Nov. 10, 2008 01:00 PM EST Reads: 5,605 |
There is much debate raging over whether cloud computing and grid computing are one and the same. In fact, there are many similarities and one key difference separating these burgeoning fields. Both cloud and grid propose an architecture that masks the complexity of managing thousands ... Nov. 7, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,072 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Adobe Systems was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valle...Oct. 14, 2008 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,534 |
 Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and develope...Oct. 13, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,354 |
SQL Injection attacks are one of the easiest ways to hack into a website. One recent hack, using a script from verynx.cn, involves injecting sql into a web form that then appends some JavaScript code into fields in a database that then gets executed on the client side when a user views... Aug. 8, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,222 Replies: 6 |
Recursion Software released a private beta version of their Voyager mobile platform, with powerful interoperability for Android, Microsoft .NET and Compact Framework (CF), all Java editions (JME CDC, JSE and JEE), and more than 15 embedded operating systems. The Voyager platform is a p... Jun. 26, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,165 |
2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? T... Jun. 20, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 35,717 Replies: 2 |
CFDynamics, a ColdFusion web host, has renewed an agreement with SmarterTools that will allow them to pass on immediate value to their customers. When a customers signs up for a dedicated hosting account they will now receive $750 worth of features including SmarterMail, SmarterStats a... Jun. 19, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,184 |
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