Alexander Rehm on September 24th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, the brilliant minds behing Adobe released beta versions of ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder to its Adobe Labs members. This latest version of ColdFusion features a greater integration with the popular Flash platform, including AIR, Flex (and Flex Builder) and Flash Media Server, making it easier for developers to create rich [...]

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Adobe announced in February this year that its latest version of Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player has been released for beta testing. This new player will enable developers and integrators to create rich, expressive applications targeted to the latest version of Adobe’s Flash technology, with the ability to distribute their apps including the runtime installer [...]

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If you followed my entry about Map integration with Yahoo Maps and ActionScript you will probably be wondering what I have to report about the progress. As you may remember, this mash-up is about offering a client a new spin on travel bogging: being able to log in to the client’s website from anywhere in [...]

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Alexander Rehm on July 1st, 2008

Alexander Rehm on Google’s new algorithm allowing its bots to search and index flash content

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Alexander Rehm provides a quick breakdown of usability / user testing and accessibility testing for websites and prototypes

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Alexander Rehm on May 20th, 2008

Alexander Rehm from What was I thinking UK is looking at the features and rich media improvements of Adobe Labs’ pre-release of Flash Player 10

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Alexander Rehm from What was I thinking UK discusses the next generation of travel blogs and has worked on an interactive travel journal with Yahoo Maps and Actionscript 2.0

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Alexander Rehm on March 24th, 2008

Looking back at the last couple of years of software development, there are only a few applications that have had a breakthrough in numbers of users: FireFox, Trillian, Skype, Thunderbird, to mention a few. The UGC sites that have grown over the last couple of years (MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, digg, YouTube, to mention a few) can offer a great experience to their users, yet they only work when you are online and do not integrate with one’s desktop (other than the “upload file/image” feature). Alex explores the subject of AIR and Silverlight in relation to his clients’ requirements.

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