Someone in our chat pointed me to this great article by Yakov Fain, of Farata Systems. This is a must read for anyone evaluating Flex, either as a developer or as a product manager. Here is the article in summary:
1. Flex 2 is not a RAD tool
2. The pool of Flex developers is [...]
Categories: Software Design, flex, technology
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- October 23, 2007 – 10:05 pm
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- By robert
Check out my friend Matt’s screencast of his recently launched startup, Rollbase. This is a service that lets anyone create business applications without having to write one line of code. Developers and users can publish their application to the Rollbase directory so that other users can immediately install it and customize it for [...]
Categories: technology
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- October 9, 2007 – 5:25 pm
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- By robert
So I saw the Adobe Thermo stuff at Adobe MAX 2007 and it looked really cool. Basically, it lets designers turn a PSD, or some other asset, into a working RIA. It looks very easy, you just take a PSD and import it into Thermo, then start turning parts of your comp into [...]
Categories: Software Design, technology
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- October 3, 2007 – 12:08 am
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- By robert
Hey everyone, Tom and I are demoing our SearchCoders/Dashboard app at max. We are one of five winners of the Adobe AIR derby and so we have a booth in the community pavillion where we’re showing the app. There are other derby winners, like Ed Finkler, demoing their apps here too. So, come [...]
Categories: air, announcements, flex
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- October 1, 2007 – 5:44 pm
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- By robert