Yahoo! Sideline is an Adobe AIR desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to monitor Twitter by creating and grouping custom queries by topics of interest. It's a great example of an HTML/CSS/Ajax based AIR app, and lots of details have been posted on...
Brian Kai has created CF_REF , a CFML reference application for iPhone. [Via a post on the CFUnited blog].
Adobe and Facebook have just announced a new ActionScript 3 Client Library that can be used to build Facebook applications in Flash. The library is free and open source, and includes more than 60 new APIs designed to compliment current Facebook APIs to ensure seamless implementation. Details are...
SAP Community Network has created a new page with details on how to get started building rich clients for SAP applications. The Web Dynpro for ABAP framework in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1 provides new libraries that make it easy to add rich data visualization to your applications using the Flex...
Mike Chambers has posted an entry entitled Rich Runtime Install Sizes Matrix in which he compares the download size of RIA runtimes Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Silverlight 3 beta, and JavaFX.
Tour de Flex has been an absolute hit since we released it back at MAX in San Francisco. The AIR based app downloaded numbers are staggering. But, some have wanted a Web version, and so, here it is , nearly 200 running Flex examples complete with code for your viewing and learning pleasure.
A user asked me to provide an example of related ColdFusion powered Ajax data grids, where a selection made in one grid would update the contents in a second grid. So, here is a simple example which uses the sample databases that are included with ColdFusion 8. One lists the artists in the...
Adobe partner Universal Mind has announced the private beta of SpatialKey , a next generation information visualization, analysis and reporting system, designed to help organizations quickly assess location based information critical to their organizational goals, decision making processes and...
Foundeo has announced the release of Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion , a high performance, customizable engine that blocks many types of attacks on ColdFusion applications. The application comes with filters that help block XSS, SQL injection, session hijacking, password dictionary attacks,...
Paul Kukiel wrote to tell me that his TweetTrail app is in beta. TweetTrail is a Twitter client which lets you enter a search term to find the top 20 Tweeters on that topic. TweetTrail is powered by ColdFusion and jQuery.