Developer March

OFF THE PRESS

Vodafone Re-launches 15 Dollar Phone for Developing Countries Vodafone is tapping emerging markets and developing markets with two...

deCarta Location-enables Opera Browsers Location-enabled services have shown dramatic growth in the past twelve...

Aircel Deploys Oracle Solutions to Offer VAS and Increase Userbase to 50 Million Communications operators are working on creating competitive edge by...

WHITE PAPERS

A Business Case for Using Adobe Flex and the Adobe Flash Platform RIA combines the goodness of instant Web access to centralized data to create...

Cost Effective Defence-in-depth Security Controls and Solutions Information ranging from trade secrets to financial data to privacy related...

Boost Game Performance With Threads This white paper explains how to use functional decomposition to get better...

EXCLUSIVES

Adobe Unveils AIR and Flash Player Incubator Program

Adobe has introduced the Adobe AIR and Flash Player Incubator program. Under this program, the Adobe Flash Runtimes team will share with developers features that are under development or experimental in order to get early participation, testing and feedback from the community. The AIR and Flash Player Incubator is for developers that are interested in testing out the bleeding edge of runtime capabilities and contributing to the future of the platform. Adobe does not guarantee that these features will see the light of day, as some of these will be features under consideration, development or just experiments.

For each new Incubator drop, the Adobe team will highlight the features they are looking for feedback on. By providing feedback on the features, use cases or things developers will create, Adobe hopes will help shape the future of the Flash runtimes. New features in the first builds include:

“Molehill” 3D APIs: a new set of low-level, GPU-accelerated 3D APIs that enable advanced 3D experiences across devices through the Adobe Flash Platform runtimes). Adobe is hoping its new 3D Flash technology will be able to rival competitor Unity's 3D capabilities.
Cubic bezier curves: using the cubicCurveTo drawing API, developers can easily create cubic beziers without requiring custom ActionScript code.

VIDEOS

Gaelyk: Lightweight Groovy on the Google App Engine You love Groovy and you're a believer in cloud computing. For a larger project you might choose Grails and hosting on Amazon EC2, but what if you want to take advantage of the nearly...

PODCAST&VIDEOS

Building RESTful Applications with the Open Data Protocol Applications today are expected to expose their data and consume data-centric services via REST. In this session we discuss what REST is and have an overview of WCF Data Services and...

jQuery at Work: A Beginner's Guide You've seen lots of articles and web sites about jQuery, and it looks promising. You'd like to try jQuery on your next web project, but you have questions: Where do I start? Where does...

JavaScript Improvements in IE9 Modern day websites use thousands of lines of JavaScript to deliver functionality similar to traditional desktop applications. Internet Explorer 9 introduces a new JavaScript engine,...

Decision Making in Software Teams Alistair Cockburn has described software development as a game in which we choose among three moves: invent, decide, and communicate. Most of our time at technology conferences is spent...

JavaScript - There's a Real Language In There JavaScript is one of the most widely used languages on the web and yet, it is the most misunderstood. If you've wondered about the strengths of JavaScript or how you can be effective...

PlayBook - Change the Game! Tablets are being billed to change the level of mobile communications. A new ground comes with its own challenges and oppurtunities. Andrew will talk about the BlackBerry PlayBook which...