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July 2007
July 31, 2007
Adobe Flex Camp Videos
Adobe held a free Flex Camp night at its San Francisco headquarters on Friday night. Several videos from the evening's presentations are now available online at flex.org/camp.
David Wadhwani, Adobe's VP of Product Development RIA Platform, gave an overview keynote before introducing a couple of demos.
According to David, Adobe has recorded 2,000 downloads of the Eclipse-based Flex Builder IDE and 2.3 billion (with a b) installs of Flash Player 9. The keynote demos were presented by Andrew Laffoon and Aryk Grosz from Mixbook, demonstrating the UI for their collaborative book-building site, and Mitch Gross, who showed a beta of Sliderocket, an online presentation generator built on Flex.
Adobe's Ken Wakamatsu also spoke during the keynote, explaining how Adobe is developing products, such as Premier Express, in Felx.
Videos for other topics covered at the Flex Camp are also available, including Flex and CS 3 Integration, What's in Flex Builder 3, and Getting started with Flex and AIR.
The next Flex Camp with be held in Vancouver, B.C. on August 30th.
Posted by John Dorsey at 08:02 PM Permalink
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July 24, 2007
Apatar Data Mashup Contest
More news from OSCON: Apatar has launched a Data Mashup contest at the show to promote wider use of its open-source data integration tool. Apatar lets you visually map a data-integration path between databases, web services, and local static files, which you then save as an Apatar DataMap. You can migrate data between a number of databases (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL) and online data feeds (including Amazon S3, Flickr, and Salesforce.com), and well as CSV or plain text files. Several DataMaps created by Apatar users are available for free on Apatar's community site, apatarforge.com
Entrants in the Data Mashup Contest will submit their Datamap, and two winners will be selected. The Best Business DataMap will win an 80-GB video iPod; and the Most Innovative DataMap Concept will win a 2-GB iPod Nano. The contest is open to everyone, not just OSCON attendees, and the deadline for entries is Friday, August 31, 2007.
Posted by John Dorsey at 05:19 PM Permalink
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July 11, 2007
A Tool for Comparing Software Tools
I recently spoke to Nicolas Vandenberghe about Iterating, a structured wiki for software products. The wiki allows users to view Comparison Matrices for various tool categories, such as JavaScript toolkits. You can compare Dojo, Google Web Toolkit, Mochikit, Prototype, YahooUI, and jQuery, on a couple dozen data points, such as Back button support with Ajax, Cross-Browser Compatibility, and Drag-n-Drop. If youre looking for info on these or other tools, or want to share your opinions on them, check it out at Iterating.com.
Posted by John Dorsey at 01:01 AM Permalink
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