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19 October, 2006

MAX Red Carpet - the Honourable Mention for Best RIA Goes To...

Our own client, the FRAME Group, and AFR Access Now in my reckoning with only two finalists this is a bronze - which should have entailed a parade over the Harbour Bridge with a half-decent flypast, but Australians are a bit spoilt by our Olympic swimming team and most of our airforce are busy do...more


Robin Hilliard on 19 October, 2006 | Link | Community, Flex, RIAs | Comments (4)

23 July, 2006

World's Largest Flex Application? We Have a Candidate...

You may have noticed the slightly sporadic nature of posts to this blog over the last six or so months. This was in part due to our role on what has turned out to be a whopper of a Flex project - AFR Access....more


Robin Hilliard on 23 July, 2006 | Link | Flex, RIAs | Comments (6)

22 March, 2006

Announcing the RocketBoots Rest of World Flex Developer Space Race!

Want to strut your Flex 2 stuff but don't live in the US or Canada (excluding Quebec - what did they do to deserve that)?

RocketBoots is proud to announce the RocketBoots R.O.W. Flex Developer Space Race, with 6 x 2Gb iPod Nanos and global fame up for grabs....more


Robin Hilliard on 22 March, 2006 | Link | Community, Flex, RIAs | Comments (14)

19 October, 2005

Great New FlashCom Game Launched

The next time you and a friend have a few spare minutes there's a very cool, freshly released FlashCom game you should try out.

RocketBoots was approached by Saatchi & Saatchi a few months back to help out with a viral marketing campaign for one of their clients....more


Robin Hilliard on 19 October, 2005 | Link | Community, Flash, Flash Comm Server, RIAs | Comments (1)

9 August, 2005

Why Quiet - MVC for ActionScript 2 Master Classes!!
'Scuse the recent lack of postings - I've been busy putting together RocketBoots' first Master Class on MVC for ActionScript 2 which is due to commence next week.

This is the first of many Master Classes that will cover the range of experience that the RocketBoots team has to offer....more


Andrew Muller on 9 August, 2005 | Link | RIAs, Flex, Flash | Comments (2)

28 June, 2005

Let Your Ears do the Learning

I've just finished listening to the Macromedia Developer Relations team's first talking book (aka known as a PodCast to the iPod endowed) and I have to say that i'm very impressed with their inagural effort....more


Matt Voerman on 28 June, 2005 | Link | RIAs, Flex, Flash, Community | Comments (0)

21 June, 2005

Zorn, OpenLazlo and Xamlon

I'm sure some of you have heard the name Zorn doing the rounds lately, and know a few of you have been scratching your heads wondering what all the hype is all about....more


Matt Voerman on 21 June, 2005 | Link | RIAs, Community | Comments (1)

16 June, 2005

Write Your Next Flex Application - Using Flash

We've been working with several development teams over the past year on Flex applications using the Cairngorm framework from iteration::two....more


Robin Hilliard on 16 June, 2005 | Link | Flash, Flex, RIAs | Comments (11)

6 June, 2005

Macromedia Joins Eclipse Foundation
Great news for the Flex/RIA community:

Macromedia said it will join the Eclipse Foundation and create a "next-generation rich Internet application development tool," code-named Zorn, based on Eclipse....more


Robin Hilliard on 6 June, 2005 | Link | Flex, RIAs | Comments (3)

10 March, 2005

Travel Australia - BYO RAM
G'day. Some of you will remember my presentation from MXDU 2004 on GIS apps written in Flash. Out of interest I put the swfs up on our site to see how well they worked over the net - as it turns out surprisingly well....more

Robin Hilliard on 10 March, 2005 | Link | Flash, RIAs | Comments (6)

4 February, 2005

MXDU - Take Your Protein Pills and Put Your Helmet On...

Hey, is everyone getting excited? Less than a fortnight to MXDU 2005, and from all indications so far its going to be a bloody ripper :-) I love the superhero characters Nectarine have whipped up this year - ColdFusion's hair is great, his quiff looks like it came out of a soft-serve machine at a...more


Robin Hilliard on 4 February, 2005 | Link | ColdFusion, Community, Flash, RIAs, Technology | Comments (1)

31 January, 2005

Flex/Cairngorm Sample Code Available
Hi All,

The code from Friday's ANZ Community Seminar on building RIAs with the Cairngorm framework is ready for download. Cairngorm is a really useful MVC framework for developing RIAs, created by the team at iteration::two based on their experiences over the last few years....more


Robin Hilliard on 31 January, 2005 | Link | Community, Flash, Flex, RIAs | Comments (3)

27 January, 2005

Breeze Presentation - Building RIAs with Flex

Hello,

Just a quick announcement - tomorrow at 3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time I'll be presenting the January Macromeida ANZ Community talk. The topic is building applications in Flex using iteration::two's Cairngorm framework....more


Robin Hilliard on 27 January, 2005 | Link | Breeze, Community, Flash, Flex, RIAs | Comments (4)

12 October, 2004

From Flash to Farscape (Absolutely Not a Spoiler) to Flex and Open Source

With The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries out next weekend in the US and UK, I thought those Farscape fans in our readership might like to know about a special cameo appearance by a member the RocketBoots team....more


Robin Hilliard on 12 October, 2004 | Link | RIAs, Flex, Connected | Comments (2)

9 October, 2004

Australian Live Election Results RIA

Check out the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online election result maps, very nice RIA with a map allowing you to click on indivudual seats - the counting has just begun.

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Robin Hilliard on 9 October, 2004 | Link | RIAs | Comments (5)

30 July, 2004

RIA Presentation For Application Developers
Macromedia Community Manager Christian Cantrel discusses in detail Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) from a ColdFusion application development perspective in this pre-recorded Breeze Live presentation....more

Matt Voerman on 30 July, 2004 | Link | RIAs | Comments (1)