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Mitch Pronschinske03/24/10
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Spring BlazeDS Integration with Flex 4 Final

For more than a year, SpringSource and Adobe have fostered a partnership aimed at optimizing the integration between Spring and BlazeDS. The Spring BlazeDS Integration project succeeded in bringing Flex front ends and Spring back ends together seamlessly. ...

Steven Lott03/23/10
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Architecture Change: Recognizing Conway's Law

I've got lots of examples of places where Conway's Law has turned a good idea into a poor implementation. A classic is a data warehouse where there were three project managers, so they broke things up three ways, leading to a crazy mess of dumb...

Justin Whitney03/22/10
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Silverlighting Your PHP: Adding Silverlight With Nothing But Notepad

Unless you’re using Visual Studio .NET and/or Microsoft Expression Studio, you may think Silverlight has nothing to offer you. And realistically speaking, your options are limited. But as a PHP developer, you’ll be surprised at what you can get away with...

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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Skipfish: Google's New Tool to Harden Web App Security

A new open source web application security hole scanner is available from Google on the Google Code site. The tool, named Skipfish, is similar to Nmap and Nessus because it allows web developers to test their applications for possible vulnerabilities, but...

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, CF Builder, and Flash Social Released En Masse

After several months in beta, a host of Flash Platform technologies were released today in their production-ready versions. The releases include version 4 of the Flex Framework, Flash Builder 4 (previously named Flex Builder), the brand new ColdFusion...

Mitch Pronschinske03/19/10
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Google Working Toward "Write Once, Run Anywhere" Native Web Apps

Getting web apps to run natively on any user's machine is a major challenge in programming. The rewards for breakthroughs in this area include much higher web app performance and more capabilites, which leads to greater adoption of the app. A few startups...

Mitch Pronschinske03/18/10
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RequireJS and Google Analytics' Innovative Async Script Loaders

As the code complexity of websites grow and assembly gets harder, these sites that more closely resemble web apps require more discrete JavaScript files and modules for development with optimized code in a small number of HTTP calls. Node.js is a great JS...

Mitch Pronschinske03/18/10
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Drupal Gardens: A Hosted Drupal Service

Many software solutions are 'going hosted' these days, and Drupal is no exception. A startup called Acquia uses the open source project to provide a free Drupal distribution along with commercial services, support, and hosing. The same developer who...

Eric Hagan03/18/10
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The challenges of Flex from a procedural HTML background, JavaScript and AIR integration, and learning JavaScript from JQuery

Andy Matthews is a Flex/AIR developer and a JavaScript expert working at Dealerskins, Inc. Learning Flex was a challenge for Matthews because it deviates...

Robert Nyman03/18/10
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Testing the Internet Explorer Platform Preview (IE9) – reviewing the good, the bad and the main letdown

At MIX10 yesterday, Microsoft announced IE9 and spoke about its upcoming features. And, lo and behold, they released a Internet Explorer Platform Preview for anyone to download and play around with!

Giorgio Sironi03/18/10
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How improved hardware changed programming

This is a follow-up to the previous post, CPUs speed and technology innovations. As we have outlined in the previous post, the memory size and computing power available to the average programmer has increased thousands of times from the first years of his...

Alvin Ashcraft03/17/10
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The MIX10 Photo Montage

Before MIX10 wraps up I wanted post a photo montage of the events and happenings here. Welcome to Las Vegas A view looking up The Strip Day 1 The Windows Phone wall on the way to MIX10 The long escalator up to MIX10

Mitch Pronschinske03/17/10
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Reinventing the Browser

In the last decade, people have thrown away the notion of web browsers being just a web page renderer. Organizations such as Mozilla, Apple, Opera, Google, and Microsoft have turned the browser into a full-fledged application runtime platform. At a the...

Robert Nyman03/17/10
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Drop shadow with CSS for all web browsers

One of the most common CSS effects is using shadows in various ways. Before, we needed to resort to images, but now we can offer this to all major web browser with CSS! Web browser support Believe me or not, but all of these web browsers we can offer...

Pete Brown03/16/10
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Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application

Silverlight for Windows Phone is one of the most exciting things to come along since the original release of Silverlight. Now I can take my same Silverlight/WPF skills and use them not only on the web, and on the desktop, but also on the Windows Phone....