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AIR is de beta versie ontgroeid en is nu een officiële release. Dit is te zien op het internet want de gratis te downloaden applicaties worden veelvuldiger aangeboden en zijn nu ook (bijna) allemaal geschikt om te draaien op de nieuwste AIR plugin. Wat is er dan nu zoal te vinden : applicatie voor google analytics van Nicolas Lierman de air iphone voor op je desktop van Merhl uiteraard de

• Lees meer over The AIR is the limit

When you are developing a website or an application, there will come a moment that you have to start using Javascript to validate your HTML forms. Here you have 4 options. Option one is not to validate. Although tempting, it is not the best option to use. Option two is to depend on your application framework and hope they have implemented client-side validation into it besides the server-side validation.

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I was looking at the internet for the simple solution to see if my air app has connection with the internet. I found a lot of blogs, all telling me a little more, but no direct good demo. This is the source I use while I work with AIR beta 3. [code] [XML] valueCommit="log.verticalScrollPosition=log.textHeight;"/> [/XML] [/code]

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Friday the 25th James Ward and Serge Jespers give a preview of the releases of Flex 3, AIR and BlaseDS. I am asked by the usergroup to think about a presentation of a java/flex site. That was not hard because I saw a brilliant presentation of the new Parleys site at JavaPolis in Antwerp. So, I asked Stephan Jansen to present his new site in Amsterdam. Unfortunately Stephan can't make it the 25th but he asked me to present his site. Off course I am willing to do so but working on this presentation it made me think about the Adobe Flex and Java.

• Lees meer over Will Java and Flex be a good combination in the future?

For a recent project I was doing in Flex I wanted to use Google Analytics. At first I thought this would be hard to do, but it proved to be quite simple. Here's how to do it. In a 'normal' web page you would use GA like this: When the page is loaded a call to urchinTracker() is made with no parameters.

• Lees meer over Using Google Analytics with a Flex application

At JavaPolis '07 it was all about RIA's. A lot of focus on Adobe's Flex and Sun's JavaFX and their ability to run applications offline and outside the browser. But there was also a very good talk on Google Gears, which is Google's initiative to make web-apps available offline. Big difference with Adobe and Sun is that a Gears-app doesn't run outside the browser.

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Last week at JavaPolis I finally understood (at least I think so) what JavaFX is about: It is all about running fancy java apps in a browser or outside of a browser, using Swing en the powerful Java2D api (and all other api's of course) under the hood, with a scripting language sitting on top of it to make life easier. A java app in a browser? Sounds like applets to me. In the past applets where very, very slow (I won't bore you with all the other disadvantages), but it is to be expected that Sun comes with something that is way, way better than the old applet.

• Lees meer over JavaFX: the return of the applet.

Following the keynote speech James Gosling took questions from the audience, here some of the questions and answers. Q: Will Java support the Google web toolkit? A: Let me put it this way: we're happy Google is doing this, but fundamentally it's just Google's product. Besides, they have infinite cash so they don't need support from anybody. Q: How do you feel about Google's Open Source mobile platform Android? A: So far, Android is just a big bag of code. There's no data. Android is a mystery really. We have no idea what they are doing. Q: What's your opinion on Apple?

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Dag 2 bij JavaPolis begon al snel met de mededeling dat Blaze is open voor alle developers en dat is natuurlijk goed nieuws. Adobe blijft de gekozen weg volgen en maakt steeds meer van haar producten open source en volledig beschikbaar voor de communitie van ontwikkelaars.

• Lees meer over Today Adobe released BlazeDS, an open source Java implementation of AMF