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  Inside RIA
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Silex - Open Source RIA

SourceForge's FOSS project of the month of June was Silex. From the SourceForge writeup: "Silex is an open source RIA that enables you to build Flash websites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. Silex is a new kind...
  Inside RIA
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Calendar Component in ActionScript 3 Part 3

So far we've seen how to implement the calendar component, and explored the logic inside the Calendar class itself. From here I will show the logic inside of the Day class, and talk about potential ways to expand the...
  Inside RIA
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Introduction to Adobe Flash Collaborative Services

AFCS (Adobe Flash Collaboration Service) previously known as 'Cocomo' is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that that allows Flex developers to address a class of applications known as collaborative applications. Collaborative Applications have progressed from a nice cool thing into serious application
  Inside RIA
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Tibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript

Tibco PageBus is a free event framework for JavaScript. In this entry I discuss the merits of PageBus, how to implement it, and show a quick example demo I built integrating some HTML, PageBus, and a very simple Flash component.
  Quasimondo
Fri 03 Jul 2009 		flash
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Automated Threshold & Edge Detection

It's a tiny bit late maybe, but here are two image processing techniques that deal with automated thresholding and edge detection that I showed in my "2d or not 2d" talk in 2007 and in "The Pixel Whisperer" in 2008. I've had a look at my presentation demos and repackaged their code into a single cla
  Digital Media Minute
Fri 03 Jul 2009
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Best Online Chess

A small detour from all things Ruby, PHP and Twitter today. Recently I’ve formed an opinion about who has the Best Online Chess site. For years I endured the rudeness, the primitive interface, and the time spent wasted just trying to find a game with the Yahoo chess experience. No more. Chess
  Digital Media Minute
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Twitter: Help For The Overwhelmed

Someone said that part of Twitter’s success is the ‘ambient intimacy‘ that it conveys. If you find yourself drowning in all that ambience, you might try Twitter For Busy People. Magnificent simplicity. Up to 500 people you follow are represented as thumbnails on a single page; hove
  webreference.com
Fri 03 Jul 2009 		dwmx
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XML and PHP Simplified

J. Leidago Noabeb simplifies and demystifies the use and application of XML and the DOM.
  Flex888 - let Flex Fly
Fri 03 Jul 2009 		flex
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Yahoo on AIR Twittering

Like it or not, believe it or not, it seems Twitter sticks with us now. As social animal we human being seems very unsecure about social or communication. We’ve got phone, cellphone, emails, IMs, blogs, SNS and now up to twitter to maintain humanity’s social status. Anyway, why not, righ
  Flex888 - let Flex Fly
Fri 03 Jul 2009 		flex
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What’s With the Firefox 3.5 Hype?

I am testing Firefox 3.5. The hype surrounding this version, the expectations that Firefox automatically gets in users’ minds, and my poor perception are possibly the major reasons why I am not yet impressed. Decline: Slower startup time Saw this before: Tab Tearing in Google Chrome, Private Browsin
  O`Reilly Radar
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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The US Online Job Market Was (still) Down Big In June 2009

Updating my post from early June, the U.S. online job market still hasn't shown signs of recovering from steady declines that began in September of last year. Compared to the same period last year, there were 50% less job postings in June 2009.
  O`Reilly Radar
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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The Hacker Ethic - Harming Developers?

Is the hacker ethic harming developers? We don't think so, but maybe the idea resonates a little bit? On Monday Neil McAllister posed the question "is the hacker ethic harming American developers?" Slashdot picked it up and Tim forwarded it to the Radar list. As you might expect, it resulted in
  O`Reilly Radar
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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Everyblock's Code is Open-Sourced

The code for Adrian Holovaty's Everyblock has been released. The open-sourcing of the site's system were apart of the Knight News Challenge Program. Everyblock is a very impressive site that aggregates and geocodes local data -- news, crime, fire, restaraunt inspections and reviews - and then lets u
  O`Reilly Radar
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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Velocity and the Bottom Line

Velocity 2009 took place last week in San Jose, with Jesse Robbins and I serving as co-chairs. Back in November 2008, while we were planning Velocity, I said I wanted to highlight "best practices in performance and operations that improve the user experience as well as the company's bottom line." Mu
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Thu 02 Jul 2009
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Four short links: 1 July 2009

The Onyas -- New Zealand web design awards launch, from the people behind Webstock and Full Code Press. The name comes from "good on ya", the highest praise that traditionally taciturn New Zealanders are allowed by law to give. The Year of Business Metrics: Don't make your users run away! -- wrapup
  O`Reilly Radar
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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In Defense of Social Media (At Least Some Of It)

Scott Berkun just posted a great rant titled, Calling Bullshit on Social Media. I suggest everyone read it. Berkun raises good points - and I agree the hype around social media warrants taking a critical look. Despite being in general agreement, there are a few areas I can't abide, starting
  O`Reilly Radar
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia

Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, that's just what Patrick Collison's iPhone application does. App Store purchasers of Colli
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Thu 02 Jul 2009
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Four short links: 2 July 2009

UNESCO book: Open Educational Resources -- UNESCO's first openly licensed publication, a collection of papers and reports in the area of Open Educational Resources. (via glynmoody on Twitter) ETSI 2.0 -- Paul Downey ventures into the belly of the telco beast and gives them both barrels. The whole th
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Ignite Los Angeles on 7/21! Submit a Talk

Ignite is coming to LA! As always speakers will get 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. We're going to be holding the geek event at Cinespace in Hollywood on 7/21. Submit a talk now. This will be the first Ignite in Los Angeles; it is co-hosted by LA Geek Dinner. The LA G33k dinner was kin
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Twitter Approval Matrix - June 2009

A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. For this post, I've limited the data and activity to the month of June.
  Mike Industries
Thu 02 Jul 2009
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Newsvine is looking for a web developer

There’s no better place to be during an economic downturn than a solid, profitable company with a long track record of success. Come to think of it, there’s no better place to be during an economic boom than that sort of place either. Msnbc.com, proud parent of Newsvine, is just that s
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