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Yes that’s it. Nothing more to say. “Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. “

Found this link browsing one of the blogs on the blogosphere. It shows top 15 ruby books. I can’t tell if we can trust this web site or no, but there are customers reviews which were posted on amazon.

A greate article posted in Switch Blog on how to make an advanced Data Gride and loading the data from an external XML file.

Screw you Bush!

ERain today announced the release of Swift 3D version 5.0 for windows. The software is now available for purchase in ERain Website. New features introduced in this version can be found here.

For those who are unfamiliar with the program. Swift 3D is tool to create 3D graphics and animation for Flash. You can export the 3D model into flash and use it with your Flash project. You can export your model/animation in other formats too such as avi, jpeg, swft, 3ds. It also supports lightning, cameras, texturing, vector and raster rendering… etc.

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide is now available free for download from adobe labs. Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, Jeff Swartz in general explains how to create AIRs application using Flex. This book is for developers interested in leveraging the Flex Framework to build and deploy Flash-based applications to the desktop via Apollo.

Adobe has recently published two articles on combining Flex and Java technologies.

• From Java to Flex
• Flex and Java – A perfect technological marriage

Google officially announced that GWT1.4 is no longer beta. As the final version of GWT1.4 has been released. Google has information of what’s new on this release.

Here’s a broad overview of the major enhancements:
– New widgets and libraries
– RichTextArea, HorizontalSplitPanel and VerticalSplitPanel, SuggestBox, DisclosurePanel, PushButton, ToggleButton, and an enhanced Image widget make advanced applications easier than ever.
– ImageBundle automatically consolidates multiple images into a single HTTP request.
– NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat make easy work of complex internationalization and localization.
– You can finally use java.lang.Serializable with GWT RPC, and the GWT RPC server-side subsystem is no longer intimately tied to servlets. You can easily wire it into any Java back-end infrastructure. Spring fans, rejoice.
– A new JUnit-based benchmarking subsystem makes measuring and comparing the speed of code snippets as easy as writing unit tests.
New deployment options and optimizations
– Adding GWT modules to an HTML page is now simple: just add a <script> tag.
– You can now include GWT modules across domains. Note that including scripts from other sites that you don’t fully trust is a big security risk.
– External JavaScript files referenced from your GWT module load synchronously now, so script ready-functions are no longer needed.
– Auto-generated RPC whitelist files are now produced during compilation to help catch accidentally responding with objects that compiled GWT client code wouldn’t be able to deserialize.
– The GWT distribution now includes a DTD for the GWT module XML format, making it easier to configure modules in an DTD-aware XML editor.