What is meant by correct development of programming systems? What is right? Be it a primitive “piece of cake” or an exotic product using modern RUP, XP, UML, or something still more sophisticated, when can we praise the development as correct and what are the criteria? Here are a number of points by Alexander Nemtsov... read more →
Oldbies remember the times when terminals used to connect to powerful servers and the information was processed by mainframes, a thin client being essentially an input device to display data. Gradually PCs were becoming smaller and more powerful, and it became possible to process information at work places. Thanks to traditional modern applications... read more →
Former versions of ActionScript seemed to be more of a Flash appendix, therefore I didn’t study them in detail. This new third one claims to be something for big guys. Here are the big guy’s impressions... read more →
Yesterday I decided to face a challenge: How long does it take to code the Arkanoid game? 3,5 hours of development, and here you are! – a nice and playable Arkanoid... read more →
You probably know how people love to compete with each other? All those machos out there are always discussing whose muscles bigger, legs stronger and etc. Among science geeks the discussion is usually held about whose brains are better in this or that scientific field, that’s why they produce so much scientific papers each year. Well, that sort of competition could not left out our developers as well. So we decided to show you, dear reader, that among our IT crowd there are also machos-developers, who love to test their wits on the website, famous by its test conducted among professionals in many fields, called Brainbench... read more →
Our team decided to share this bit of news with our visitors, since among us these articles became too popular as soon as they were published. Steven Webster, the practice director for Rich Internet Applications at Adobe, has published a series of articles called “Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture“. In his articles he writes a lot about issues of RIA development, difficulties that RIA developers experience and solutions, provided to RIA developers by Cairngorm 2 framework.... read more →
Another useful service is connected with e-commerce. Currently a new term “one-man shop” was introduced with regard to the Internet applications. It means that all aspects of one e-shop are managed by various companies, each of them specializing in managing one particular aspect of this shop, and its owner just manages interactions between these companies. In this schema, for example, a person who wants to open his or her own e-shop doesn’t have to hire an accountant to manage their e-shop finances, they simply find a specialized company that provides accountant services for such businesses, and all calculations and financial management of the e-shop are conducted by this company. The owner doesn’t have to worry about logistics but simply hires another company that will be responsible for this. It is necessary just to manage interactions between these companies in a most convenient way. The point here is that each company in the business chain specializes in its own area thus improving the whole business process of the company they are servicing... read more →
Web 2.0 is not just a new way for developing applications but it is an absolutely new business model. And everything connected to new ways of making money is always popular in our world. At present, when everybody is speaking about Web 2.0, it mostly concerns marketing rather than new technologies. You can find Web.2.0 mentioned more often in the context of design than business. Clients usually ask: “I want the design in Web.2.0 style”. But this is absolutely wrong; Web 2.0 is not about design at all! Moreover, in my opinion, now it is too early to use the term Web 2.0 because it is not just a new technology but a new approach to the information management that has not completely defined yet... read more →
At the Adobe Max exhibitions the first new brand application developed on Apollo was announced. Adobe Digital Editions is a completely new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications. But the key factor is a fact of such release. Application was developed on Apollo that is a platform for easy creating desktop apps via web-technologies. So the new kind of apps will be developed abstractedly from any operation systems. It’s a turning point in web application development. As a flash development team, we follow every publication on this topic. And what is more, if any plan announced on the Adobe Max conference is coming true, we will be prepared for a sudden change.... read more →
As a development company from the “capital” of Siberia and its renowned scientific center, we are used to reaching all the highest goals in what we are doing. Our developers adhere to this principle not only in their work, but in their private life as well. One of these days our Flash developer Grigory Dmitrenko, one of the active organizers of the Flash Seminar, tried his strength in parachute jumping. This kind of extreme sport can be taken by enthusiasts in the suburbs of Novosibirsk... read more →