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I created a new online platform called zkexamples.com. The goal is to provide really simple and quick examples for common ZK use-cases and requirements (what is ZK?). The idea is based on flexexamples.com which was a great help to me when I was coding a lot of Adobe Flex. If anyone has some nice examples […]
If you’re using the awesome ZK framework together with Hibernate you might run into some issues where Hibernate behaves a little funky while the application runs. The trouble’s cause According to the developers of ZK, the reason for this is ZK’s multi-threaded event model. Whenever an event gets fired, a new event thread is created. […]
I lately had to play around a lot with collections in multi-threaded environments and learned several new stuff that I’d like to share: Vector vs. ArrayList Where is the difference between both? When should you use ArrayList and when is the time to use Vector? This is a very common question and often leads to […]
I own a HTC Desire for quite a while now (actually since it came out) and I’m still very happy with it – and YES, I used an iPhone before and I’d never trade it for my Desire. However, one thing that really annoyed me was that synchronization was not as smooth as on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A very exciting and promising project called Lightspark has reached beta-stadium. Lightspark is a 3rd-party implementation of Adobe’s Flash Player, written by Alessandro Pignotti and entirely created from scratch using the open specification of the Flash-format SWF. No reverse-engineering was done. It is being said, that even hardware-acceleration is supported using OpenGL. Lightspark is claimed […]
