Blogs

From InsideRIA:
Yesterday Microsoft released IE 8 Beta 2. It’s likely the most anticipated release of the browser to date, for developers anyway. This is because they’ve done a lot to support CSS 2.1 and HTML 5 standards, which is everyone agrees is a good thing. It might not be perfect yet but they seem to be making good progress.

From InsideRIA:
Ted Patrick just posted a screencast from Mark Anders where he gives a great overview of the roadmap for Flex 4 aka Gumbo , Flash Player 10, Degrafa and Thermo at 360 Flex.

From InsideRIA:
Dave Johnson, Alexei White and I have finally completed our video training series on Ajax development for high performance and large scale Ajax UIs. We took the book, Enterprise Ajax, we wrote last year and then recorded just over 8hrs worth of Ajax training. Hopefully it’s a bit easier for folks to swallow than the 500 page book;-)

From InsideRIA:
Google announced 2 new ways to make your apps location aware yesterday. One’s a web service that any web can take advantage the second is built into Google Gears, and runs on the mobile version of this plugin.

From InsideRIA:
It might be debatable whether a native app written Objective-C is an RIA, but most of the are internet connected at least part of the time and lots of the coolest iPhone apps I’m using run right in Safari on the iPhone. It’s not however debatable whether or not iPhone has raised the bar for slick and aesthetically pleasing UIs and if you’re going to develop a web app or native app for the iPhone you need to meet that bar to succeed. On that note here are a couple resources to make your iPhone apps look like Apple’s very own apps!

• What is an RIA?
  Simple: no page refresh. I like it!
  (tags: ria ajax nitobilikes definition nitobi davejohnson)

From InsideRIA:
The second annual iPhoneDevCamp has just started here at the Adobe offices in San Franciso. There’s about 300 people and I think most of them are planning to build an app or at least hack a little bit. The even runs from Friday night until Sunday night. The highlight of the even is certainly going to be the Hackathon where developers and designers will be splitting off into teams and trying to build an iPhone by Sunday afternoon for the grand demo. This year’s event has 60 sponsors as well!