Adobe has announce their new Ajax Technology Center which introduces new technologies that make building rich internet applications easier and scalable. I've mentioned Adobe Air, their SDK & runtime to take your web apps to the desktop, a number of… Continue Reading
Ajaxian has a great rollup of Adobe Senior Vice President Kevin Lynch's keynote at the Ajax Experience. Some important facts that really stood out were: Adobe's push to standardize the crossdomain.xml file, standard in Flash, at the browser and client… Continue Reading
While testing the latest copy of CF8 GMC, I looked at the file sizes of the Ajax javascript files and was pleasantly surprised to find the files nicely compressed…all except for the Spry files! I was curious as to why… Continue Reading
Props goes out to Adobe & O'Reilly for releasing the book Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide under a creative commons license. Ajaxian's got the scoop here and the download link is here. Thanks guys!
Ajaxian picked up on new travel site Vayama.com which focuses on finding the best fares and schedules for international flights. It has a very cool interface and uses a combination of Ajax and Flex to provide a pretty slick interface.… Continue Reading
I was curious if anyone had heard any news about how Adobe might be looking to have their tools integrate with the iPhone in some way. There's been a lot of buzz about iPhone and Ajax lately and I was… Continue Reading
I'm testing out the upgrade process from CFMX 6.1 to CFMX 7 on one of my servers. I've never done an upgrade before. Normally, its an uninstall of the prior version and a clean install of the latest. After getting… Continue Reading
In chatting with Adobe, one thing that came out was that their Ajax indicator (the spinning activity indicator) had not be optimized. Since this is just an animated .gif file, its an easy replacement. Just go to \CFIDE\scripts\ajax\images and replace… Continue Reading
TechCrunch reported today about the Digg API Visualization Contestwhich was held to celebrate the release of the Digg API. As TechCrunch stated (and I couldn't have worded it any better: “Four of the ten finalists are Adobe Apollo based applications,… Continue Reading
Read/Write Web has a write up comparing Apollo and Dekoh Desktop. While the writeup was interesting, the comments proved much more entertaining as Adobe's Mike Chambers & John Dowdell chimed in to clear up some misconceptions about Apollo and put… Continue Reading