Development Trends

I ran into this cool SWC at www.AlivePDF.org – so have a detailed look here if you want to output PDF’s from eg. Adobe AIR.

www.AlivePDF.org: “AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 (Flash, Flex, AIR) PDF generation library ported from the FPDF PHP project.
It allows you to generate PDF’s 100% client-side.”

The new Apple IPad is out – but why isn’t Flash supported ?

Click here to see the engadget-review

Time to register for FITC Amsterdam 2010

Some headlines from the FITC Website:

• Two full days and nights of events, plus one day of optional pre-festival workshops
• Over 50 presentations and panels covering the Creative, Technical, and Business aspects of Flash and digital media
• Over 500 attendees from around the globe
• Over 50 internationally renowned design and technology presenters
• Includes three FITC evening events

Try some of the new features below in Adobe AIR 2 – BETA

If you have  experience with BlazeDS, WebORB or AMFPHP you might also want to have a look at the Zend Framework – Adobe and Zend have announced a collaboration for creating Flex applications powered by the Zend Framework – interested..? then just click here to get started.

Or have a look at the Programmer’s reference guide.

I just ran into this amazing site – containing a lot of good Adobe Flex Video code-samples/tutorials … Goto and Learn… click here to visit the site.

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com – Developer Preview (codename Stratus) is a new development tool for building cloud-based, rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can be deployed in the browser or on the desktop leveraging Adobe AIR.

Read more at Adobe Developer Connection

In the good old days when the SAP Portal was brand new and everybody discussed what kind of content would/could be available in there in the near future, there was always one example which was demo’ed again and again: The Stock ticker or The list of preferred stocks and related updates. Although we knew that most customers did not have this “need”, the demo continued to survive – and it took a while  before there was a real proposal on serious content.

Will the same thing happen to SAP Flash Island?

…. will Google Maps examples and colour full Piechart examples be the “Stock ticker” for SAP Flash  Island?

Maybe… or maybe not… maybe there are a lot of inspiration to find in the Adobe Flex community, because there are already a lot of exising components and applications available – and a lot of different API’s are already supported by Adobe Flex. The inspiration might lead you to a ‘non-stock-ticker’ for SAP Flash Island.

If you visit Adobe.com/devnet you might find some inspiration to a new mashup – which could be a SAP Flash Island candidate  – just to mention a few:

• Component: Adobe Cocomo – read more
• API:  Google Analytics – read more
• API: Facebook – read more

If you want to have a closer look at some of the newest possibilities within Google Wave, then SAP has developed a prototype called Gravity. Gravity uses Google Wave and could be used to develop Business Process models – which could be used later on in SAP’s BPM software.

See the prototype in action and read more here

In the SAP Network Blog SAP and Google Wave – Conversation Augmentation – DJ Adams describes how he has implemented a small demo which will integrate a Google Wave application with SAP Netweaver.

Want to know more about Google Wave – see the following screencast: