In honour [sic] of International Data Privacy Day today, 28th January 2010, Google has published their own guidlines on privacy. The timing of this is quite intriguing following the recent hacking attack, supposedly orchestrated by the Chinese authorities, on Google, Yahoo, Adobe and some 20 other major international corporations; whilst there is also the ongoing concern from many quarters about Google is too dominant in many aspects of our online lives.
Tags: Adobe, Ethics, Google, Identity management, Information privacy, law, Privacy, world wide web, Yahoo
If like me, you’ve been struggling to understand the legalese of the Adobe ColdFusion 9 EULA, I have put together a brief and hopefully, helpful summary of what it actually means in in plain English.
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The September 2009 UK edition of Wired ran an interesting article, carrying the same title as this post, by futurist Peter Schwartz. In the article, Schwartz proposed a 5 step plan to predicting and therefore safe guarding your future.
Tags: Adobe, AJAX, chosen technology, Competing technologies, e.g. open-source software, five easy steps, Flex, Freelancing, future, futurist, futurology, Peter Schwartz, plan, question, rapid application development, Ruby on Rails, test case, united kingdom, web development, web development example, Wired Magazine
Okay, so many of the points below aren’t purely my philosophy, but ideas and principles I have picked up along the way throughout my [development] career. Some relate to the UNIX philosophy, or even the Zen of Python, but wherever they’re from, they can be applied to many other domains.
Tags: Adobe, api, Asides, Design, Dev Opera, Development, Freelancing, Google, Google Code, JavaScript, Microsoft, philosophy, Python, unix, web community, work, Yahoo, zen, Zoho
Adobe recently announced, in conjunction with Amazon, that they would bring LiveCycle to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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ColdFusion is 13 years old. That make makes it the daddy of the web world! It does not make it any less hip or useful than the relatively new kids on the block. Let’s not dilly-dally, bicker or insult one another about which is best, which one is dying and which one is not worth the computer it is compiled on. What is important is to understand the merits of each language and decide which one best suits the application, not only in technical terms, but also in terms of time-to-market, cost of development, availability of a skilled workforce etc.
Tags: .Net, ActionScript, administrator, Adobe, Adobe ColdFusion, AJAX, Atom, best practice, Business, ColdFusion, content management, Design, Design Patterns, Development, encryption, enterprise-level search, Flex, Frameworks, fundamentals, HTML, Internet Applications, Java, JavaScript, ORM, programming, rapid application development, Rich Internet Applications, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, The Web, Web, web technology, web world, XML
If you’re currently not using Eclipse as your development tool of choice, you certainly should be! Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.
Tags: Adobe, Ant, Apache, Apache Ant, build, build.xml, CFEclipse, Click Import, ColdFusion, dev server, Eclipse, extreme programming, ide, Java, lifecycle, Martin Laine, platform-independent tool, software automation, test-driven development, unit testing frameworks, web developers, Web Server, web server folder, XML
For the seasoned Flex developer, we’ve been accustomed to using the Flex Component Explorer as a reference. However, this is set to change with a great new application called Tour de Flex.
Tour de Flex is a desktop application, built using AIR, with the goal of providing a way to explore Flex’s capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration.
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Whether you are new to Adobe ® Flex ® or have been developing for a while, frameworks can help you get organised quickly. Below is a list of Flex and AIR frameworks that will allow you to get up and running and develop highly-collaborative applications. The introductions are by the frameworks themselves, but I’d like to here from you about your experiences using them.
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe Consulting, Adobe Flex, AIR, api, asset management, backend services, Cairngorm, classic Model-View-Controller, design pattern, Design Patterns, Flex, Framework, Frameworks, Gaia, Google, Guasax, Internet Application Frameworks, Internet Applications, inversion-of-control, IoC, Mate, Model-Glue Flex, model-view-controller, mvc, PureMVC, software engineers, Swiz, XML
On 1st September 2008 Google launched a new opensource browser project named Chrome.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, browser, gears, Google, Google Chrome, Google Gears, HTML, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Mozilla Prism, Safari, Virtual Machine, Web apps, Webkit