Microsoft’s Silverlight
Posted on August 15, 2007 by C Lin
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Silverlight is a Microsoft software program that strives to compete with Adobe Flash and the presentation components of Ajax. The program is reported to offer a more consistent experience cross-browser and cross-platform. Silverlight also includes a version of the .Net Framework and will supposedly provide an even greater scalability with Windows servers.
The Top Ten Open Source Actionscript Tools
Posted on April 5, 2007 by Tuesday Creative
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Everybody loves a good countdown! Flash designers and developers especially love a countdown of the best open-source Actionscript projects. The term “best” is a squishy amalgam of the measures of community support, design and technology, application in the real world and overall usefulness. Visit OSFlash, the de-facto hub for open source flash projects, to see more about these projects and many, many more that are terrific but didn’t make the cut for this countdown.
Running on Rails – Part 1
Posted on March 30, 2007 by S Running
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I flipped through a few of the beginning Rails books and settled on Patrick Lenz’s “Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications.” I think it was the blue and orange cover that persuaded me to select it, but it turned out to be a good choice. It promises to teach you how to build your own Digg.com style site if you make it through the entire text. Note that Digg.com was built on Rails.
