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By tim, on September 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft’s Brad Becker, Director of Product Management for Developer Platforms, has defended the role of Silverlight in the HTML 5 era. Arguing that it is natural for HTML to acquire some of the features previously provided by plug-ins – “because some of these features are so pervasive on the web that they are seen
…continue reading Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role
By tim, on August 25th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterSapphireSteel Software is poised to release Amethyst, which lets you develop Flash and Flex applications with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 or 2010.
Why bother? There’s two aspects to this. One is simply the comfort factor: if you are a .NET developer used to Visual Studio, but now working on Flash or Flex, this could
…continue reading Develop for Adobe Flash/Flex in Amethyst for Visual Studio
By tim, on August 9th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterLooking at the blazing-fast JavaScript in IE9 Preview 4 made me wonder if anyone had tried to write a SWF renderer in JavaScript. SWF is the Adobe Flash file format and a published specification.
Of course someone has. Tobias Schneider has been working on Gordon and built his first full release in June.
…continue reading Render SWF in JavaScript – a solution for Flash on iPhone/iPad?
By tim, on August 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe’s Duane Nickull has an illuminating post on how the Flash player handles REST. Nickull is responding to a post by Malcolm Box in which he complains how hard it is to use Flash with a REST web service. Box observes that Flash cannot send POST, PUT and DELETE requests when running in the
…continue reading SOA, REST and Flash/Flex – why Flash does not PUT
By tim, on July 28th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has acquired Day Software, a company which specialises in web content management. Its products include the CRX Java Content Repository and the CQ5 Web Content Management Platform. One of its distinctive features is an emphasis on interaction and collaboration. Day’s chief scientist is Roy Fielding, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation and well-known for
…continue reading Day Software: another strategic acquisition for Adobe
By tim, on July 26th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterApple’s iPhone is still perceived as primarily marketed to individuals rather than corporates. However, I was interested to see how much Apple is doing to attract corporate developers. First, Apple now supports some basic enterprise-friendly features, such as Microsoft Exchange (with a few caveats), VPN, remote wipe, and the ability to lock down iTunes
…continue reading Enterprise app development on Apple iPhone and iPad
By tim, on July 17th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterAfter 4 weeks with Apple’s iPhone 4 I’m mainly impressed with everything other than the call quality (I am in a poor signal area for O2). I’ve been exploring the App Store though, and while there are many great apps there, there is also a huge amount of junk. Here’s a review for an
…continue reading Why is there so much junk in Apple’s App Store?
By tim, on June 24th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI’ve just installed the third Internet Explorer Platform Preview (on a virtual machine just in case) and run through a few of the demos. One of the most impressive is Canvas Pad, which demonstrates the HTML 5 Canvas element.
Canvas is particularly interesting, since it provides a surface to which you can draw
…continue reading Big browser and RIA news: Canvas comes to Internet Explorer 9
By tim, on June 23rd, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has released its financial results for its second quarter, reporting $227.3 million net income (GAAP) compared to $161.4 million in the same quarter last year; and revenue of $943 million which it says is 34% year on year growth.
Much of this is thanks to a successful launch for Creative Suite 5, which
…continue reading Adobe financials: strong Creative Suite 5 and Flash, claims company undervalued
By tim, on June 18th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterEarlier this week I attended Adobe’s partner conference in Amsterdam, or at least part of it. The sessions were closed, but I was among the judges for the second day, where partners presented solutions they had created; the ones we judged best will likely be presented at the Max conference in October.
Seeing the
…continue reading Adobe LiveCycle and the Apple problem
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