While poring over versioning issues on RESTful web services i stumbled upon Peter Williams post proposing the use of vendor MIME media types to get the versioning under control. I really like this idea because it is simple and fits tightly to the REST approach. But trying to apply his approach in reality some difficulties [...]

Yesterday the 10th version of the Adobe Flash Player codenamed “Astro” became available on Adobe Labs. Looking back to the release of version 9, which was a development release introducing AVM2 and AS3 and version 8, which was a feature release providing pixel filters and so on now version 10 is well balanced between features and development.

These days lots of pages focused on Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, pop up. The most interesting thing about them all is the tight enclosure of the developer community.

Verizon has just released their new ringtone store. It is the the first ecommerce site entirely build with Flex i have seen so far. The site offers a great user experience which is way different from other ecommerce sites. Using transitions and dynamic data loading for building a shop frontend is way cool and i [...]

You may have already heard it. Today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project which is working to remove the key barriers of using the SWF and FLV format. This potentially enables every screen to read and play these formats which means that Flash content can reach everyone everywhere every time !

It’s nearly considered good manners to provide an API if you are running some serious e-business. Exposing some of your business artifacts makes you integrable, mashable simply buzzable. But how about your business logic your artifacts are bound to? If you only want to give a simple listing API to your customers so that they [...]