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AOL acquires Goowy

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:31:08 +0000

AOL announced to acquire a San Diego based company Goowy media inc. Goowy has a Excellent Flash and javascript (AJAX) based webmail platform and provides a good widget solution YourMinis.

Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo!

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:17:11 +0000

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$45 Billion

This is the biggest news of the Friday morning all rumors are transformed in to a fact that Microsoft has offered yahoo to buy for $45 billion. This is the big move from Microsoft to spread his wings in internet and online advertising industry.

I am sure that there will be lot of reaction from the community by big merger.

It will be interesting to see that will Yahoo accept the offer of Microsoft?

360|Flex Atlanta – February 25-27, 2008

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:04:37 +0000

This 3-day conference is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from Adobe and community speakers. Sunday before the conference we’ll be offering an all day Flex 101 session, included in the price of registration. That’s right, a pre-conference all day training session on Flex. 360|Flex is the premiere Flex and AIR conference. We were the first Flex conference and we’re still growing and getting better. Don’t miss out, only $480 for an individual or $1500 for a 4-person team. More details can be found at http://360flex.com

360 Flex Conference schadule has been posted. Check it out…

WebManiacs 2008 (CF,Flex,AIR) registration is open

admin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:41:09 +0000

The WebManiacs 2008 conference schedule has been finalized and registration is open. Early bird pricing ends Jan 31.

Consisting of a two-day ColdFusion conference (”CFManiacs”) coupled with a three-day Flex conference (FlexManiacs), hosting over 70 speakers and 130 distinct topics (some of which are hands-on), WebManiacs promises to have the most comprehensive coverage of Flex, AIR, and ColdFusion at the lowest price.

Seating is limited, so Register early in order to get into the more popular sessions.

PureMVC Courseware

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:52:37 +0000

PureMVC has opened up the Beta test program for PureMVC Courseware. This is good initiative by PureMVC team to document the PureMVC and help people to adopt the frame work.

You can register for PureMVC Beta testing program here.

In can if you haven’t heard.

What is PureMVC?
PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications in ActionScript 3, based upon the classic Model-View-Controller design meta-pattern.
This free, open source framework does not depend on any Flash, Flex or Apollo classes, and is therefore suitable for architecting applications on any platform running AS3.

Visit PureMVC website.

SUN to acquire MySQL

admin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:06:50 +0000

Sun Microsystems has announced to acquire Words most popular Open Source Database company mySQL for approx $1 Billion. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market.

Creating cool front-end Apps using Flex and JavaScript @ 360Flex

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:44:12 +0000

I am glad to announce that I will be speaking at 360Flex on “Creating cool front-end Apps using Flex and JavaScript”

My topic will be covering following points and much more.

Flex and JavaScript Hand in Hand.
Integration and communication between Flex and JavaScript.
Flex and Ajax Bridge.
Simple approaches to achieve most usable UI using Flex and JavaScript.
Building word processor using flex and javascript.
Drag and Drop management between Flex Component and JavaScript component.
Some Examples
Q and A

This session will bring up light on many good technique and challenges while working with flex and JavaScript.

See you @ 360Flex Atlanta.

initRIA – The RIA conference at Bangalore (India)

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:05:05 +0000

initRIA is a day long developer conference of Rich Internet Applications enthusiasts organized by the Bangalore Flex User Group. This is the first conference dedicated to Rich Internet Applications in India.

When: 16th December, 8.30 am onwards

Venue:
HoneyWell Technology Solutions (opposite IIM Bangalore)
151/1, Doraisanipalya, Bannerghatta Road,
Bangalore 560076

What topics can be talked about?
The talks can be about any RIA technology AJAX, Flex, AIR, Silverlight, JavaFx or others. We are hoping to get a good mix of talks on different technologies. The nature of the talks has to technical in nature this is not a marketing event so no marketing mumbo jumbo please.

How long can a talk be?
55 minutes max including setup and questions. If you wish you could have talks that are shorter in length.

How many talks?
We are currently looking at 1 track of 8 talks, althought this may change if we get a good number of interesting proposals . Send your topic proposal to organizers@initria.org After we receive your topic a panel of experts will decide if your talk has been selected

Who can speak?
Anyone can submit topic proposals by sending a proposal to organizers@initria.org . After we receive your topic a panel of experts will decide if your talk has been selected. In your proposal please describe in detail the nature of your talk.

Who can attend?
Anyone who is interested in development of Rich Internet Applications. Register here to attend. As this is our first attempt at organizing something like this the number of attendees is capped at 100. Registrations will be on a first come first serve basis. If you register and later feel that you cannot attend please so that someone else can attend.

How can you contribute??
1. Become a speaker: share your knowledge with the community.
2. Spread the word Tell the whole world about it, get experts on all sorts of RIA technologies to speak and attend.
For suggestions please write to organizers@initria.org

StartForce.com a new Web operating system

admin — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:49:04 +0000

StartForce a new start-up has developed a web operating system, which looks, likes windows type platform.

StartForce.com UI is developed in AJAX( javascript ).

Explore the StartForce

Mumbai Flex User Group Meeting

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:16:36 +0000

This is to invite you all to the first Mumbai FUG meeting.

Date: Saturday, 16th June 2007
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue:
Barista cafe,
5 A Jilkar House,
Next to Dena Bank,
Keluskar Road,
North Shivaji Park.
Dadar(W) – Mumbai – india

Agenda: Since this a first meeting this will be more of hanging out
and setting agenda for future meetings.

So Let’s meet up..
Please book your calendar for the same and reply if your gonna make it….

See you on Saturday…