Specialist for Rich Internet Applications and UI-Design

Yay! I just got my CS5 Master Collection (Educational-version)! Before I bought it, I checked on some infos you might want to know. For example, I was curious if I was allowed to keep the suite even if I am not a student any more and if I may use it for commercial purposes. The following list should give you the answers you need: The EDU versions are a lot cheaper. My Master Collection for example cost only € 662,-, while the non-EDU version costs € 3688,-. You must be a student or teacher in order to be able to purchase an EDU version of the Creative Suite. A verification documen ... read the full article

Lately I have been doing a lot of coding for mobile devices, like iPhone or Android, but I was never really happy about the development environments. Objective C is a horrible and antique language while the Android SDK is quite nice (due to its Java roots) but does not give me the ability to create multi platform apps. Thanks to Apple, Adobe's AIR platform also is no alternative anymore to create applications for different mobile operating systems. So what's left? Right. Web-technologies. Luckily, I stumbled over a really nice framework called JQTouch which hat its roots in the JQuery libra ... read the full article

Sorry for not posting to much in the past days but I'm currently so busy with my $%& diploma thesis and thus have absolutely no time to do anything else except for eat, sleep and write... wait forget what I said about sleeping and eating. From: phdcomics.com When I'm done, I'll get back to posting new articles. I promise! Ps.: You liked that comic above? Go, check out phdcomics.com for more college-related fun. ... read the full article

Here we have an interesting Flash2HTML5 converter which seems to work up to (parts of) Flash8. Check out smokescreen.us for demos and more info (Thanks to Antonio for the link). Seems like it works pretty decently regarding movies and animations but I wonder if "real" applications would work with it, like for example such which were built using the Flex framework. ... read the full article

Around two years ago, I wrote a little article about OpenLaszlo, a promising RIA framework, for richability.com in which I compared it to Adobe's Flex platform. Since a lot of time has passed and many things changed since then, I think it's time for an updated sight on this technology. Back in the days when I wrote that article, my main arguments were (summarized): Flex can only target the Flash Player while Laszlo offers both, a Flash compiler as well as a DHTML version. Flex is much more popular than OL (OpenLaszlo). Costs for OL development are lower since Adobe's Flash Builder (fo ... read the full article