OpenLaszlo

Macromedia has Flex. Flex is a set of tools and technologies to allow developers to easily build rich internet applications – without the need to learn the Flash authoring environment. Using an XML file to control the user interface, and with interweaved / external Actionscript code, developers can create compelling applications online. Flex is great […]

Flash 8: out of the box, oops and wows

The Studio 8 copy has been lying around in office for a few days now, Vaishali installed it on her laptop today. The out of the box experience was great. The first thing she noticed was better installation selection screen and even cleaner splash screens. She even tried the file upload procedure and was happy […]

Glancer – conference planner and friend finder app specs

I wrote briefly about the idea of developing a conference planner and friend finder app for Foss.In/2005. Here is the spec for that.

Cross platform application development

I wrote about cross platform interactive application development a while ago. There are ofcourse many more approaches, and I am talking about two of them here. wxWidgets is an open source library to create cross platform GUI’s. It’s in C++, but the Python binding – wxPython is quite popular. wxWidgets provides native UI – meaning […]

Friend Finder / Organizer app for Foss.In/2005

I have been thinking about developing a small app for Foss.In/2005. Something similar to IntroNetworks that Macromedia uses at its MAX conferences. I haven’t started working on this, but here are a few basic ideas: Should ideally be cross platofm desktop app – Linux, Windows, Mac. Otherwise a web app Allow for viewing list of […]