Microsoft delivers missing RIA tools, components for Silverlight 4

When Microsoft delivered the final Silverlight 4 bits in mid-April, a few complementary components weren't done yet. But this week, the company is making available for download some of those...

Blog posts | May 18, 2010 10:13am PDT
Active Endpoints debuts ActiveVOS 7.0 with BPMN 2 support, improved RIA interfaces

ActiveVOS 7.0 has a new design canvas that uses the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 specification to create executable BPEL processes.

Blog posts | September 15, 2009 7:55am PDT
What ever happened to the withering RIA market?

The dissolution of the RIA market as a separate market is still several years away, as all indications are that the RIA environments market in particular will continue to experience healthy growth...

Blog posts | September 8, 2009 8:51am PDT
Microsoft .Net RIA Services: Not until 2010

Microsoft officials provided this week a timetable for the rollout of .Net RIA (Rich Internet Application) Services, the technology codenamed "Alexandria." .Net RIA Services is designed to allow...

Blog posts | June 11, 2009 9:06am PDT
Yet another open source RIA tool

It's true that, when Rich Internet Application technologies like AJAX first emerged, the tools for creating such files left something to be desired. What seems to have happened since is that many...

Blog posts | April 8, 2009 9:40am PDT
Adobe CIO: The future of RIAs

Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO of Adobe, thinks that in the future Rich Internet Applications are going to have many uses, separate from the browser. For example, users will be able to customize...

Videos | March 24, 2009 2:03pm PDT
The future of RIAs

Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO of Adobe, thinks that in the future Rich Internet Applications are going to have many uses, separate from the browser. For example, users will be able to customize...

Blog posts | March 24, 2009 1:27pm PDT
Short clip: Adobe and the future of RIAs

Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO of Adobe, thinks that in the future Rich Internet Applications are going to have many uses, separate from the browser. For example, users will be able to customize...

Videos | March 24, 2009 1:27pm PDT
Microsoft's 'Alexandria': RAD for RIA

Continuing on its self-proclaimed quest to simplify the programming of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Microsoft has rolled out a first tech preview of its .Net RIA Services technology.

Blog posts | March 23, 2009 5:35am PDT
RIA technologies and the downturn

The news is a pretty depressing place right now but there was a small article in the Economist about how the Fashion industry is responding to the downturn that caught my eye. Towards the end of...

Blog posts | March 5, 2009 5:33pm PST
Hype and open source

The behaviors we expect from vendors after we adopt their products are different from those we expect in the proprietary world. So are those we expect before we adopt. The carnival barker has a...

Blog posts | February 20, 2009 7:05am PST
The iPhone conference cometh: 360|iDev March 2-4

One of my favorite RIA events is 360|Flex. The organizers, Tom Ortega, and John Wilker, do a great job of getting the community excited and putting on an event with great technical content and...

Blog posts | February 11, 2009 8:38am PST
The mulitouch future of RIAs

I've been really enjoying Richard Monson-Haefel's blog on multi touch lately. Now that RIA technologies are able to do so much, it's become apparent that the mouse and keyboard are simply too...

Blog posts | February 9, 2009 5:52am PST
Looking ahead to 2009

2008 was a big year for rich Internet applications. We saw companies like Curl and Appcelerator make big pushes into the RIA mindshare. We saw a significant release of Silverlight - a release that...

Blog posts | January 7, 2009 3:24pm PST
The widget conundrum

There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100...

Blog posts | December 1, 2008 7:47am PST
Google's video chat plugin - a big deal for RIA developers

A couple of days ago Google released a video chat plugin for Gmail. With Google, it's always a little hard to figure out where all of the pieces fit - that's why there are entire blogs dedicated...

Blog posts | November 13, 2008 11:36am PST
Conflict between Rich Internet Apps and SOA? Say it isn't so

SOA is too coarse-grained, while RIA is too fine-grained

Blog posts | November 5, 2008 9:40am PST
Architecting your Rich Internet Applications

Josh Holmes has posted a set of slides and detailed explanation for a talk he and James Ward did about architecting rich Internet applications. The post and the slides are well worth a read. One...

Blog posts | November 4, 2008 1:24pm PST
Genuitec, Eclipse aim for developer kit to smooth rendering of RIAs on mobile devices

The two tool frameworks will enable mobile web developers to visualize and debug mobile web applications from within an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE). Beyond this the...

Blog posts | November 4, 2008 7:07am PST
Grid Computing meets ET

Could you run your nightly batch cycle on your employees' PCs? Maybe save a bundle on hardware? Probably not. The technique is best for compute-intensive tasks--tasks that require lots of...

Blog posts | October 19, 2008 6:31pm PDT