From the category archives:

Open Source

KooshBalls for OpenLaszlo revisited – CSS transform based rotation with Webkit

August 3, 2009

Don Hopkins implemented a Koosh Balls Generator in OpenLaszlo’s LZX language back in 2005. I wondered what the performance of the application would be like with the OpenLaszlo DHTML runtime in Safari 4.x.
Right now there’s still a small bug with rotation and Safari in OpenLaszlo trunk. I tested with a patched version on my machine. [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

Sony Pictures Imageworks releases five projects as Open Source

August 1, 2009

Sony Pictures Imageworks announced the release of five software projects as open source. The company is one of the leading visual effects and character animation companies, headquartered in California. The company has won Oscars Spider-Man 2 and the short film The ChubbChubbs.

The open source portal can be found at opensource.imageworks.com, and the following products have [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

JavaFX 1.2 support added to NetBeans 6.7.1

July 28, 2009

The NetBeans and JavaFX team have added support for JavaFX to NetBeans 6.7.1. The JavaFX version of NetBeans has a total download size of around 70 MB, and can be downloaded here. Until now, for JavaFX development you still had to stick with NetBeans 6.5.1. Still the list of features available for JavaFX development is [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

Backward compatibility of OpenLaszlo

July 27, 2009

An amazing feature of OpenLaszlo is the backward compatibility of the platform for old OpenLaszlo applications. Take the weather widget, for example. Here is a version of the app running on an old Laszlo Presentation Server version 2.1.2 (released in 2004).

If you want to test the developer console, this [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

More Open Source from Adobe – Text Layout Framework and Open Source Media Framework (OSMF)

July 21, 2009

Adobe and Open Source? Definitely a success story – with more projects being announced. The latest additions to the Adobe Open Source portfolio are the Text Layout Framework (TLF) and the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF). The Text Layout Framework – which is already used within Flex Gumbo and Flash CS4 – solves many of [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

GWT 1.7 has been released

July 20, 2009

The GWT team has announced the 1.7 release of the Google Web Toolkit. Bruce Johnson published some details on this release:
GWT 1.7 is a minor update that adds better support for Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5, and Safari 4. Each of these new browser versions introduced at least one change that negatively impacted compiled GWT modules, so [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

Firefox and moz-transform – modifying the coordinate system

July 19, 2009

Following the announcement of the Webkit team that they implemented support of W3C CSS 3D Transform draft, I had to see if Firefox has support for similar features. Yes, they have – through the moz-transform property. A detailed description of the CSS transform functions can be found on this page.
Zachary Johnson built a nice demo [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

OpenLaszlo 4.4.1 has been released

July 18, 2009

The OpenLaszlo has just announced the 4.4.1 release of the OpenLaszlo server:
We are pleased to announce the release of OpenLaszlo 4.4.1. This is a minor bug fix release, containing 9 bug fixes, that follows OpenLaszlo 4.4. We wanted to get these fixes out to the community, as they have been specifically requested. OpenLaszlo 4.4.1 is [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

Driving RIA plug-in market share with multi-runtime support

July 15, 2009

Looking at the state of rich Internet applications in 2009 we can clearly see that proprietary plug-ins are getting more acceptance in the market. While people seemed to keep bashing Macromedia/Adobe for their proprietary Flash plug-in back in the early RIA days (2001-2006, and I had my share in the bashing), the situation has much [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

OpenSolaris 09.06 executive booklet published by Chip India

July 12, 2009
Thumbnail image for OpenSolaris 09.06 executive booklet published by Chip India

Jim Grisanzio points to a publication by CHIP computer magazine in India: an OpenSolaris 09.06 executive booklet has been created in an effort to make OpenSolaris better known in the Indian IT industry. Kumar Abishek reports in his blog:
OpenSolaris has been a hot topic in India for quite some time now and in the month [...]

Share:
  • Print this article!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Ping.fm
  • Twitter
Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →