Yahoo! launches web messenger developed in Flex Vaishali told about the new Yahoo! Web messenger. And it’s all done in Flex (and PHP)! It looks good, works well, and is a good example of things to come! They have made the panels look much better with rounded corners et al, and have kept the standard Flex look for drop downs and text […]
Flex to go open source! I am a bit late to write about this, but Adobe has decided to open source Flex fully by the end of the year. It will be released under MPL. The Flex SDK, the compiler, debugger, flex components and AS3 libraries – all will be open sourced. This is a major move! A very strategic […]
Apollo Alpha is out Adobe released Apollo Alpha yesterday. Many people like us have been waiting for this! A RIA platform that can be used offline, using the same technologies that we use on the web. The Alpha supports only Flex apps, but HTML support is coming. Our team has started experimenting and they are planning to build parts […]
Make IRCTC Better As promised, here’s the post on IRCTC – India’s largest ecommerce site. I tell you how it does not work, and how we can make it work! Last Thursday, I decided to go to Ahmedabad for some work. Went on to IRCTC to book a train ticket. I logged in, and entered the date of […]
Alternative to FMS Saw Wowza Media Systems‘ offering today – an alternative to Flash Media Server. It looks good, comes much cheaper ($5000 for unlimited connections), supports server side scripting and remote shared objects, and runs on multiple platforms. Is free for 10 connections. But looking at the tech details, it may be a memory / CPU hogger. […]
