British Telecom acquired Ribbit for about $105M. Ryan Stewart already interviewed Chuck Freedman, Ribbit's director of development platform, about the way it might affect developers. Ribbit, the self-proclaimed "Silicon Valley's first phone company", is an open platform that enables voice telephony
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How can we develop green software with RIA technology? If green means using less energy then the main approach is to reduce the "richness" of a RIA. Here is an example and justification.
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I have never been a big gamer. But I remember sweating for hours at length creating my own stages in Tank and Lode Runner, and being thrilled while playing those as a kid. User-generated content in games could be the next big thing, and PlayCrafter, the gamers' next big thing.
PlayCrafter is a
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Problem Summary: Once I want to display a series article of Flex performance from InsideRIA(www.insideria.com) in my blog. I recognized that the amount of the articles is increasing. I should keep the links dynamically. However, I am not the provider of the blog system, so I cannot modify the codes
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The apps featured on Adobe Flextv’s “App of the Week” have so far remained obscure. Few links—forget reviews—are discoverable. From now on, I shall try to cover these apps every Friday here.
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It’s Friday! (for half of you I guess). I know you must have some idle time to kill in brain-dead way before calling it a day. I can’t blame you. That’s why I’m here to assist you with a perfect tool, the singing hourses, a Flash..um…something. You need turn on your
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MeeBone, RichFLV, Snackr, Twhirl, Wallowr. I can think of three things common to these RIAs. All five of them are Adobe AIR apps, with an UNKNOWN publisher, reviewed on our Flex RIA.
Users are aware that anything they install from the web could be unreliable. Shipping your Adobe AIR apps (for
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