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18. December 2011
WordPress TV
11. December 2011
How to find conference?
There are many conferences around the world and it is hard to monitor them all.
I found useful site ConfRadar.com.
You just need to specify your favorite tags and you’ll get e-mail notification about conferences.
18. June 2011
Structure of Flex project for multi-target development
What I mean by multi-target?
Today it is possible to create Flex project that runs in browser as Flash application. Other option is to create mobile or desktop application using AIR.
The question is how to structure bigger projects that need to target web, mobile and desktop.
Let’s assume that we’re developing multiple applications and therefore it is good to have common library which aggregates common functions.
That is sufficient when you’re targeting just one platform. Once you need to support more projects then one common library is not enough.
It is reasonable to split this library into the main core that is common for all projects and then create specialized libraries for AIR, web and mobile.
On the top of these libraries you can build final applications for desired platform.
Recap:
- top: applications for mobile, web and desktop
- middle: specialized libraries that extends functionality for mobile, web, desktop
- bottom: common library for all platforms
15. April 2011
jQuery workshop – FRI Žilina – slides
I was invited to give another talk at FRI Žilina. Previous topic was development for Google Android platform.
This time I focused on jQuery.Together with Michal Kaukič we started jQuery workshop. Attendees learned basics of jQuery in two hours. At the end they have running application with simple animation in HTML.
Základy jQuery
View more presentations from Juraj Michálek
You can download slides in PDF version.
You can also download ZIP file with all demo applications.
I was using IntelliJ Idea IDE. It has very intelligent code completion for jQuery, JavaScript and HTML.
I suggest to download also jQuery Cheat Sheet, it is very handful manual.
I mentioned two interesting projects. One was Adobe Browser Lab which allows you to get snapshot of your web site displayed in different browsers on different systems.
The second project was jQuery Mobile. This project could help you to create applications for mobile environment.
I provide this workshop also in form of training for companies. You can find more details about available trainings at sinusgear.com.
Do not forget to watch lauch of Adobe CS5.5 Dreamweaver. Adobe promised to provide support for packaging JavaScript application as a native app for Apple iOS, Google Android and Blackberry.
Adobe announced upcoming version of CS 5.5. In my opinion they should change the name to CS 6, because new features are very powerful.
jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap in Dreamweaver. If you’re short on thime, just check 5th minute of video. Greg Rewis is showing how to run jQuery Mobile app on Android.
There are great news for PHP developers. Adobe announced FlashBuilder 4.5 for PHP. Simpler workflow and better integration of Flash/Flex apps with PHP code base.
FlashBuilder 4.5 has also great support for mobile development. Check out this article.
FlashCatalyst has new features. See the video:
Absolutely great job Adobe!
5. March 2011
IE 6 Countdown
IE 6 is one of the biggest blocker of innovation in web technologies. IE 6 is eating hours and hours of developer’s time.
Some goverments stubbornly require support of this “ancient” application.
Christian Heilmann has been talking about this problem for several years.
Usage of IE 6 is falling. 12% in February. You can watch the departure of IE 6 from computer stage at: ie6countdown.com
3. March 2011
Srobick – Annotator – sneak peek
We added new feature to Srobick platform – code name is Annotator.
It allows you to create editable annotation of web pages, images and screenshots.
Slovak version of video:
English version of video:
Account in Srobick system is available upon request. Just send me an e-mail.
Some features will be accessible in future release even without Srobick system account. Stay tuned.
11. December 2010
Cheat Sheet
Vývoj aplikácií je náročný. V dnešnej dobe je nutné čeliť rôznym API, prepájať heterogénne technológie a učiť sa nové prístupy.
Veľmi užitočnou pomôckou je stránka cheat-sheet.org.
Nájdete tu rôzne dokumenty pre technológie od výmyslu sveta. Z technológie je vždy vytiahnutá esencia, ktorá vám môže výrazne zjednodušiť vývoj a zlepšiť porozumenie implementovaným konceptom.
4. December 2010
Spark vs. MX – size of Flex application
I’m building several applications based on newer Flex/Spark architecture. It is good practice to keep application at minimal size. With Spark architecture I hit several problems.
One critical problem is that application with Spark is quite big. I decided to enable support for RSL…
There is problem that RSL is available only for official releases of Flex SDK. You can run aplication on developer’s machine, but user will see some fancy errors.
There is another problem with Adobe’s RSL. Browser will contact Adobe server before application start. You could see 3-5 connections. Flash Player is checking version of RSL. This will slow down start of application. It could take 10 seconds in network with higher latency. That is very bad.
Therefore only viable solution is to turn off RSL and use “Merge into code”.
Folks who advocate for Spark says that it is much more efficient and it has better structure. Sure, it’s true. You can do many things with Spark much easier than with MX.
I was wondering why were my applications with Spark that big. I made small reasearch. You can see comparison between MX, Spark and MX+Spark projects on followich chart. In the first step I was testing only size of application with just one Button in Release mode. Then I’ve added some other components and application starts growing.
Measured against Flex SDK 4.5.0.17689.
The last result with Spark is very sad, because Spark application with Button, DataGrid, FormItem and TextInput is two times bigger than application using MX.
Do you know about any way how to shrink Spark applications?
1. December 2010
Ako dostať Flex aplikáciu do WordPressu?
Napríklad takúto: IT Gigants
Veľmi jednoducho. Stačí aktivovať modul Kimili Flash Embed a zadať nasledujúci reťazec:
[kml_flashembed movie="/wp-content/flex/itgigants/itgigants-1.6.swf"
height="500" width="500" fversion="10.1"]
height="500" width="500" fversion="10.1"]
