Creating PDF files client side with Adobe Flex

AlivePDF is a open source PDF library which allows you to leverage PDF functionality with your Adobe Flex applications. It is completely client based and seems to be the best library out there at the moment unless you want to go with the more heavy Adobe Livecycle option. AlivePDF allows you to do both customized printing of drawn objects and text as well as capturing and printing...

jQuery gets a boost from the CDN’s

A CDN – short for Content Delivery Network is a way of distributing your static content across servers in various physical locations. A request to any of these resources from a browser will download them from the closest available server in the network.

The major benefit of hosting your AJAX libraries on a CDN is basically caching and...

Adobe Flex vs Silverlight, the Morgan Stanley case

With Morgan Stanley choosing Adobe Flex as technology for their trading platform (named Matrix), a debate around these two platforms fired up. Morgan Stanley’s choice is obviously a big win for Adobe as a step into the enterprise software world. Morgan Stanley’s Matrix founder and global director...

250+ Hours of video material from Adobe Max

Over 250 hours of video material has been made available on the Adobe TV website.
A good way of finding videos to watch is to use the scheduler and use the movie icon next to the title.

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RESTful services getting traction in financial services

With data sources in financial services being so diversified and with many older systems still being completely stateless, RESTful services are making their way into this sector as a means for integrating all these data sources.

InfoQ has released a video from QCon in which Kirk Wylie reviews some of the most common problems, the video is fairly long but the ...