Which kind of sever side pattern would be best suitable for a middle-weight RIA application? Now I have a Data Access Layer generated by SubSonic. Most of the times a service is called from Flex (with WebORB). This service then calls the Business layer. The business layer will get some data (SubSonic Collections or SP's), the data is co...
I'm just starting out in the programming world and I know that I have a long road ahead of me..but I learn quickly. :) I want to be able to build RIAs and I've been going through Adobe's PDF files on ActionScript 3.0 and Flex. The more I learn, the more interesting it gets. My questions are these: Am I starting at the right spot? Should ...
Can you recommend this RIA Framework for devoplement of web apps? Has someone worked with it? ...
This is a multi-part question. 1) What do you use to manage your to-do list? 2) How do you evaluate which tasks you prioritize? 3) What feature(s) do you currently use most? 4) What features do you most wish existed for your to-do list system? ...
Ok, I'm doing a bunch of RIA/AJAX stuff and need to create a "pretty", custom confirm box which is a DIV (not the built-in javascript confirm). I'm having trouble determining how to accomplish a pause in execution to give the user a chance to accept or decline the condition before either resuming or halting execution. (depending upon the...
I'm building a site with a Flex frontend and Django backend. The problem I'm facing is that it's tedious to write a CRUD frontend for every model. I've checked out django-rest-interface but it is not obvious on how to do anything other than read/GET (i.e. create/POST, update/PUT, delete/DELETE) and couldn't find any related examples. ...
I'm currently building a prototype AIR application for work. It allows our clients to download and work with their data and then synchronise with the server at some later time. Pretty standard stuff. I'm an experienced web developer and so I have been fairly successful at getting this app into a reasonable state for demonstration, but...
Does anybody know of any real-world web applications based on JavaFX? I'm an experienced Java programmer considering starting a website while I'm not at my day job. I don't have a lot of expertise on the UI side, so I'm looking for the best way to leverage my existing skills to create something that can provide an awesome RIA experienc...
I currently do a lot of work in ActionScript 3.0, I also love to program in Java. Is JavaFX perfect for me? What is the general feeling on JavaFX, will it become a power house, or go down the same path as Java Applets? Could the designers I work with become comfortable with JavaFX to the same extent they are comfortable with ActionScript...
I want to create a simple 'scorecard' like mechanism for some card/parlor style games. The trick is I want this to be a visually stimulating application (WPF/Flash style animations etc.) and available on Mac, Windows and some mobile clients eventually. Any thoughts on framework? Silverlight would be great if I could run it offline, other...
I have a dilemma which I seem to share with many others: Flex or Silverlight? What I would like to develop is a web video/audio chat that would be a Skype killer and conquer the world. On a serious note, I think the time for a ubiquitous video/audio service that can be run in a Web browser (read: zero installation) is just ripe. But what...
RIA are more richer when it is developed using Flex. Will this be an obstacle for developers using Javascript for front-end? Will javascript be replaced with Flex? ...
How would you go with i18ning a rich web application? Would you internationalize in the server or in the browser. What are your experiences with this? ...
When using .NET RIA Services and MVVM in Silverlight 3.0 is there a difference between the Metadata type from RIA Services and the ViewModel from the MVVM pattern? Are these the same thing or should they be keep separate? The metadata type is a sealed internal class to the partial Entity class. There doesn't seem to be a proper separati...
I'm on a project where we try to build a GUI replacement for an old application. Before we really implement the functionality we've started prototyping with Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) and GWT (Google widget toolkit, a Rich Internet Application). What is your experience with RIA and RCP GUIs? When does it make sense to use RIA and...
I've noticed a dramatic increase in GWT popularity during the past 6 months. More evidence can be seen here: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=gwt&l= Can someone explain the cause? ...
I want to develop a web application, like an online scheduler. (Yes I know it's been done a million times.) Most of my experience is in Java, so I want to leverage that when considering technologies. I've primarily been a systems developer with little exposure to UI programming, so I think this is where I will need to do most of my lear...
Currently we use jQuery to add RIA goodness to our apps, but recently we have been implementing the Coveo Search engine into our Sharepoint portal and found that ScriptSharp was used in their product. What can ScriptSharp bring to the table? ...
I need some help in choosing the right way for my RIA. I do want to use a javascript widget library - possibly ExtJS. I'm not sure however if I should try to get around programming in Javascript through ExtGWT or other solutions like Rialto Python. What are your experiences with web application frameworks that do not require you to progr...
so far, I found Anthony Franco, Raju Bitter...but I want to know what others follow: I want some really good blogs to track RIA, UI Design, Ajax, Silverlight, Flash, Flex.. ...