Category: Serverside

May 01

Data Exchange Efficiency (AJAX, JSON, E4X, Flex Remoting/AMF)

Flash, RIA, Serverside, Flex 1 feedback »

I just got sent a very interesting link to a Flex app from James Ward that runs tests on a variety of different data exchange formats. The tests include results for: 1. Server processing time 2. Data transmission time 3. Parsing time and... 4. Rend… more »

Mar 08

Google Suggestions : Uncovers a Dark Public?

Serverside 6 feedbacks »

If you use Firefox, you get a nice little Google search box top right of the browser. Now if you type in the beginning of the word, it populates a drop down with a list of suggestions, based on Google's vast database of what people search for. (You will… more »

Feb 07

Free Online File Conversion (Many to Many)

Serverside, General 4 feedbacks »

Joakim Carlgren, a colleague of mine at AKQA just pointed me to a site where you can convert many office, image, video and audio file formats to another for free, I think it's well worth a look and might prove quite useful for one-offs unless they intend… more »

Oct 17

Ms. Dewey - A Hotter (Flash) Search Engine

Flash, RIA, Serverside 3 feedbacks »

Ms. Dewey makes searching the web a little bit more fun. I tried a search for "Flash" to what she says: "Nothing gets a girl hotter than talking about code. Lights, camera, ActionScript.". The load times seem quite high because of the amount of video use… more »

Feb 19

Flash Lite and Flex and Other Server Apps

Flash, Serverside, Flash Lite, Mobile 3 feedbacks »

First up, eagle eyed Scott has just caught a job vacancy on Monster for a "Senior Product Manager, Flex Mobile Development at Adobe". Well there's been some suspicion regarding this matter since Flash Lite 1.1 came out, I asked Mike Chambers this when he… more »