Wonderful news for all Flex 2 students out there! Adobe Flex 2 is going to be free for education purpose. A detail of this news is available at Yahoo Finance.
Paging navigation system might be new concept for some developers. Not many websites out there really uses that method… through thousands of website I browsed, I have only seen that method being used maybe twice. One of those websites is DZone.com.
Paging navigation is good on some situations. Like DZone.com, it is good on browsing a long list of data and maybe for viewing topics and articles but not always. If the page is so long and/or has lots of multimedia components it could slow front-end machines because it will consume resources. An article by Pete Forde talks about the paging system and how to implement it.
Making a cross browser web page is a developer’s dream. Everybody likes to make a website that works for every visitor’s machine. For big companies it is very vital to make a website that satisfies every client. If a client can’t browse a company website why should he deal with that company?!
There are many tools out there can help every programmer to create a cross browser web application. This article written by Justin shows some of these tools.
Interesting post on Josh Sharp Design blog on why we should use framework when developing in PHP.
Because there are less restrictions on the structure of the code you write, it’s much easier to write bad code. But there is a solution: use a framework.
Well done Doshisha University. The lovely Flash intro impressed on how simple Flash intro can be really nice. The whole site is built using Flash and you’ll be amazed seeing the timeline animation. ACM announced the rank list in which includes India on second place and Slovakia on 3rd.
I’m no CSS expert. I used CSS a lot in the past building my CMS, but recently I haven’t done anything in CSS. Deziner Folio posted a great, kick in the ass, article about creating liquid tab or button using CSS and XHTML. The outcome of the design looks great. I might aswell use that method for my future designs.
Flex Cookbook is looking for authors. If you have a Flex recipe and you like to publish it on a famouse series of books from O’Reilly here is your chance.
I found this on BIT-101 blog…
Interview with, Scott Petersen, the creator of the C/C++ translator into ActionScript 3.0. The sneak peak playing Quake game after converting it from C/C++ into Actionscript made alot of arguments on how powerful AS3.0 is. The MAX sneak peak of playing the game shows Quake running in Flash Player.
Apple announced that iPhone SDK is under development and it will be available for public in February.
we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc.
Hold on! Did they just said open platform? amazing… Now iPhone will transfare from a lock-down phone to full-potential developing device. This move will encourage developers to build more iPhony programs.
