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Code Fetch: Search the source code of programming books.

March 30th, 2007 at 10:03 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Books, Tutorials



Useful website, where we can search the source code of programming books. The only “hicks” is that Actionscript is not repertoried on it…
Ahmet

Flash Lite 2 Component Framework in ActionScript 2

March 28th, 2007 at 9:37 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash Lite, Mobile



Project name is Shuriken,
it’s a Component Framework for Flash Lite 2 written in AS2.
This project is really cool, and if your tends to play with Flash Lite, it will save you a lot of time!
You can download some examples directly from the Google Code project website
I’m just hoping that it will be compatible with Flash [...]

Who’s amung us ?

March 28th, 2007 at 9:26 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in General, Web Design



Just a little try, I like the script. Maybe it will join my right column soon, if result are good enough ;)

Ahmet

Nomades Advanced Technologies Interactive Workshop

March 28th, 2007 at 2:43 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in RIA



Open Web 2.0, technologies, strategies and challenges:
NATIW is a Think Tank focusing on information systems and communication technologies. It aims at anticipating technological evolution and identifying emerging needs and opportunities in the information society.
NATIW is a project of Nomades Ateliers, which has been active in the field of information technologies and communication since 1989. Nomades [...]

CS3- Who is the winner?

March 27th, 2007 at 4:58 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, ActionScript3, Adobe



Simple tool for Adobe Manager that have to make winners for the tonight show :
whosthewinner.air is an Apollo application, once you enter a Number it will display a number between the selected number and 1.
Made in 5 minutes with Apollo :D

Tonight we have a big Party at Geneva (www.augg.ch) for the release of Adobe Creative [...]

Yahoo drives more traffic than Google !

March 26th, 2007 at 10:02 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Google, Marketing, Point of View



Maybe I didn’t keep well informed but for me Google was from far the most visited search engines website. But according to Alexa (a traffic ranking company), Yahoo.com is far more visited than Google.

Well, it might not be as true as they wanted us to believe. Not that Alexa is working to promote the advertisement [...]

Get the north on your mobile without any GPS/LBS

March 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in J2ME, Mobile



Smart idea from Dana Peters, you can get the north in any localization with your mobile phone (J2ME compatible) without using GPS or LBS. Just by using the position of the Sun or the Moon.
By rotating the phone so that the sun and/or moon icons match their location in the sky, the top of the [...]

Apollo: All the resources to start having fun

March 20th, 2007 at 12:28 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, ActionScript3, Adobe, RIA



Lynda.com has release a tutorial about Adobe Apollo.
All the basic to make a simple application are explained by Mike Chambers:
Join Mike Chambers, Adobe’s Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations, as he gives an exclusive, hands-on glimpse of the alpha version Apollo: a powerful new development tool from Adobe. Web developers fluent in Flash, Flex, HTML, [...]

Download Apollo Alpha Now

March 19th, 2007 at 10:32 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, Adobe, Flex, RIA



Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and [...]

Apollo book, free to download :)

March 17th, 2007 at 12:41 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, ActionScript3, Adobe, Books



One week ago I wrote about the new book from O’Reilly: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers. Now this book is free to to download directly from the labs.
The main Chapter are :
Introduction to Apollo
Getting Started with Apollo Development
Using HTML Within Flex-Based Apollo Applications
Using the File System API
Apollo Mini-Cookbook
So now there is no more excuse not [...]