Archive: June 2004

25 posts

Flash Player 7 Linux...

by kai on 06/06/2004

Macromedia released the Flash Player 7 for Linux some days ago. Great, another step into the direction of creating a platform independent virtual machine for our well-known and loved Rich Internet Applications. But: To be honest - are there so many people really working on a Linux-based client machine? Is that going to become a real trend or is it just another IT-world hype like Java Applets, Web…

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Macromedia Flex Performance Brief

by kai on 06/06/2004

Macromedia delivered an article on their DevNet which gives an impression of how a MXML-based Flex application performs again a JSP-based HTML application using the same backend application tier. The results are really interesting. In terms of memory usage there's no difference - cause both approaches are using a JRun instance - and regarding the network load they notice a light advantage for the…

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Internet Professionell MX Developer Forum

by kai on 03/06/2004

I'm quite late with that announcement, but better now than never ;) On next Tuesday the German web-related magazine "Internet Professionell" is hosting a one day conference called "MX 2004 Developer Forum" in Munich. I'm going to be there and I will speak about Flex. Topics will be a brief introduction in the environment and the system architecture and then show the people some live application…

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More about Eclipse plugins...

by kai on 03/06/2004

On the 20th and 21st of May I wrote a lot of entries on Eclipse and how to use the Eclipse platform for web developing, database maintenance etc.

There are some more very good plugins around:

CSS Editor plugin

JSEditor for basic JavaScript editing

In eigener Sache...

by kai on 03/06/2004

Die Stammleser (= einige der Notification-Abonnenten) wissen vielleicht schon, worauf dieser Eintrag hinauslaufen wird... Bereits seit einiger Zeit denken wir immer mal wieder darüber nach, ob Blog in Black nicht in englischer Sprache geführt werden sollte. Der deutsche bzw. deutschsprachige Markt für ColdFusion, Flex und RIAs ist eben doch relativ eng und wir sind von den Inhalten natürlich so…

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