Archive of Flex
HTML5 vs Flash – The Saga Continues
Yesterday there were a couple of important posts that have reignited the fire under the HTML5 vs Flash debate. The first was Thoughts On Flash from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The second was the riposte from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, via Alan Murray’s exclusive interview, Highlights: The Journal’s Exclusive Interview…
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New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 2)
In the first part of this blog I covered some of the new features in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 as described in a talk by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets. This part will focus on LiveCycle Collaboration Service, Flash Catalyst, LiveCycle DataServices, and the relatively new LiveCycle Mosaic….
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Last week I attended a talk at Skills Matter by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets in which he gave us a whirlwind tour of some of the new features available in the latest version of Flex and its ecosystem. There is a video of the event on the website but…
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Silverlight 4 – Is it what banks want?
Where is Microsoft going with Silverlight? There is no ambiguity in Microsoft’s intentions to contend with AJAX and Adobe Flash in the RIA space; Friday’s Silverlight 4 release includes me-too features such as enhanced video streaming capabilities aimed at internet broadcasters, better device handling including web-cam, microphone, mouse wheel and…
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Silverlight and Flex versus Ajax
On November 10th Caplin and Finextra sponsored a webcast discussing issues surrounding single-dealer portals in capital markets. We have the highlights and while much of the discussion was purely business focused, part III discusses the emergence of Ajax versus Flex and Silverlight. It’s a very interesting topic and there’s been…
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Scaling Flex for enterprise applications
Last night Phil Leggetter and I attended a session on Scaling Flex applications run by Skillsmatter. The video of the event has now been posted. We found this interesting as we as a company have entered the world of Flex. Our product is a Flex library API, which is part of our Caplin…
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Silverlight for single dealer portals?
Could it be that the time for Silverlight in finance has come? Does Adobe Flex solve any of the complexities of building web applications? Where does Caplin Trader fit in to this landscape? These are all questions that I am hearing (and asking) increasingly at the moment – so here’s…
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