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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If your Flex/Flash Builder has suddenly problems connecting to your Flash debugger, you might be using Google Chrome. It seems like Google started bundling the Flash Player together with Chrome, which has an automatic updating engine (in the background) and thus you probably didn’t notice the update. This integrated version of Flash Player is the […]
Note: This is not a posting about introducing Gordon. This article describes a concept of automatically porting the Flash Player to JavaScript in a generic way, based on the idea of Gordon and Adobe Alchemy. You might know Gordon, an experimental attempt of implementing the Flash Player runtime environment, completely written in JavaScript (by Tobey […]
There has a lot of discussion going around in the past days about the big Adobe vs. Apple issues. All because of Flash. Steve doesn’t like Flash. He says, it’s buggy, slow and unstable, which I, as a Flash developer, must agree to partially. But this is only one side of the medal. While the […]
To be honest, I don’t really like Silverlight apps, but Tagxedo is truly great. Just enter a website’s url (or just plain words) of your choice and it will generate a cloud for you, based on its content, as shown in the image below. Variable parameters include font size, color, alignment and shape. The app […]
Update: After hearing about some misunderstandings regarding this post, I want to make sure, that the title “Flash – The new Java?” is of course targeted at front-ent software engineering, not backend. Although it’s obvious that noone would ever try to build a web application backend using Flash, I just wanted to make sure that […]
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It’s just a rumor, but it’s being said that there are plans out there that Google will release future versions of Chrome with Flash bundled. If it’s true, this fact would be really astonishing for me, since Google usually tries to push open-source technologies, which Flash definately isn’t. Further, GWT is a direct rival of […]