Wow. CF8 looks to be way faster than it’s predecessor. That’s cool because CF is already really fast to do dev in, so if the app itself is fast then hey. Maybe this will better than Rails…
Use the Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) beta software to build an app to win up to 100K in Travel and tonnes of other cool hardware. We’re going to be entering of SalesForce app for sure. You can use Ajax or Flex.
I want to thank my mom, my dad, my 1st grade teacher, my little doggy…uh ya anyway. Enterprise Ajax hit book shelves across the US and online this week. Wow, feels good…but I’m sure Dave and Alexei are even more relieved as they did the bulk of the work.
Coming next is a video training series we’re doing with Prentice Hall that should be out in the fall.
Code samples will be online soon.
Now if it weren’t for that pansy-ass-boy-wizard-harry-potter I’m sure we’d be the best seller of the week across all book categories:) If you’d like a review copy just email andre(dot)charland(at)gmail with your physical and blog address.
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall/SAMS Launch New Ubuntu, AJAX and Ruby Books at OSCON: Prentice Hall Announces Publishing Alliance with SourceForge, Inc.
ddison-Wesley Professional (AW), Prentice Hall Professional (PH) and SAMS Publishing today announced the release of new cutting-edge books for the open source community, including The Official Ubuntu Book, second edition, and new titles for AJAX and Ruby
One armed and bearded I still managed to get a couple points across about what’s exciting about developing web apps that will run on the iPhone. We’re already working on a couple apps that we’re customizing for the iPhone…stay tuned to see what we come up with:) The interview ran a couple weeks ago on BNN on CTV. It’s neat we can do full Ajax development on a mobile device, can’t wait really get into some of the new UI patterns we can come up with.
I just managed squeak in this interview during the bus tour stop in Vancouver. It was bit weird talking to a camera, while listening to someone I couldn’t see through an ear bud. Kind of fun though. If you have any questions about developing apps for iPhones…just let me know:)
As part of the On AIR Bus Tour I’ve been showing a contact management application that uses Adobe’s AIR platform, SalesForce.com’s API and Nitobi’s Ajax Component suite. The basics premise for our demo is to help the sales person in the field take their customer contact info with them and update info even when they can’t get an internet connection. It allows users to work with their SalesForce.com data both online and offline, drag and drop Vcards from the desktop onto the app and sync changes that are made offline when a connection is detected.
Desktop integration would improve the user experience
They already have a widely used web app
They have in-house HTML/JS developers
They have a community that knows HTML/JS better than Flex.
Although SalesForce.com is a popular web based business tool, this scenario is quite common in enterprise apps today. HTML based UI that runs in the browser that without too much effort we can enhance with desktop capabilities. Lots of the application data is exposed through web services. I should also point out that SalesForce could definitely improve their existing web UI with some Ajax, but we won’t pick on them now;-)
The features we added to the existing app with AIR are:
Offline capababilies
Drag and Drop from the desktop
File reading and writing
Parsing Vcard client side
Custom chrome
Development benefits for us:
No cross domain issues so we can directly access the SalesForce data through their web API with no server proxy.
No server infrastructure to set up
Used existing Ajax components (with a bit of tweaking)
