Adobe Joins the SQLite Consortium
Adobe joined with Mozilla and Symbian to support the work of the SQLite Consortium to help ensure free, open access and development of SQLite.Read More
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Ext with Adobe AIR Support
To coincide with the release of Adobe's AIR v1.0, the Ext team released v2.0.2 of the Ext framework with enhanced support for the new AIR runtime. Read MoreAdobe
Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 Now Available
Adobe announced the availability of Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to rapidly create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. Read MoreMicrosoft
Details of the next version of Windows OS
Microsoft revealed details of the next version of Windows OS for small businesses. The company formally introduced a new product line aimed at small business server (SBS). Read MoreGeneral
Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes
Web-usability guru Jakob Nielsen published in his Blog a great article about application usability. There he explains the top most common application design mistakes and gives advices on how to avoid them.
"Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both," says Nielsen.
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Ext for Air and Vista
Jack Slocum, the creator of ExtJS, posted а Forum Gadget for Vista and Ext JS 2.0 API documentation application for AIR, pretty soon after the release of GWT-Ext 2.0.
Ext is a cross-browser JavaScript library for web pages. You can use it to achieve Web 2.0 effects without writing too much JavaScript code.
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Adobe Launches Director 11
Adobe Systems Inc. announced Adobe Director 11 software, a major upgrade to the company’s powerful multimedia authoring tool for building interactive applications and rich content.
“With the new Director 11, users can unleash their creative capabilities and broaden their market reach with less effort, producing more engaging multimedia applications in less time,” said Naresh Gupta, senior vice president at Adobe.
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Microsoft to give students free developer tools
In order to get more students to enter the software field and to get them using Microsoft's tools early, the company's going to give away its software.
"That next generation and future generations of technologists, they are
vital to any industry leader like us," said Joe Wilson, Microsoft's senior director of academic initiatives.
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Yahoo! Maps for ActionScript 3.0 Released
Yahoo released a new Yahoo! Maps API which is entirely built in ActionScript 3.0. This API now integrates a complex set of services and controls that you can leverage in your applications to create custom components, overlays and markers while consuming different webservices provided by Yahoo!, or your own. Read MoreGeneral
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 announced
Mozilla Foundation announced their new improved open-source e-mail software. It is called Thunderbird 3.0 and is due to ship by the end of the year with a more comprehensive search feature and official integration of the Lightning calendar add-on.Read More