http://blog.buzzyand.me Our take on the Web Technology.. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:47:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My application "You Are Here", built using the Appcelerator Titanium Mobile framework has been selected as one of the three finalists of the Titanium Mobile Developer Contest. The application uses the Geolocation API's of the iPhone and Android platforms to post updates to the Brightkite network and search for Tweets by ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2009/08/vote-for-my-titanium-mobile-application/ I had a pleasant chat with Maijaliisa Burkert of Sun Microsystems yesterday about my experience with developing Rich Internet Applications using JavaFX. Among other things, we talked about my winning application at the Code JavaFX India contest, improvements in JavaFX 1.2, the new JavaFX Authoring tool and the exciting possibilities offered ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2009/08/podcast-with-my-views-on-javafx/ With the recent release of Silverlight 2 RC1 and Flash Player 10, things in the RIA world have never looked more interesting. I was going over the forums on Silverlight.net and realised that some of the criticism directed towards Silverlight was regarding the lack of support for a binary protocol ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2008/10/build-a-silverlight-flex-chat-application-using-livecycle-data-services/ About 5 months ago, I made a Flex/AIR application called Stockastica. It was a virtual stock trading simulation. Subsequently, I ported it to Silverlight 2 Beta 1. The first beta was just released and I was eager to see what I could do with it. It wasn't a very complicated ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2008/09/porting-silverlight-2-beta-1-applications-to-beta-2/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="417" caption="<mx:devsummit>"][/caption] Adobe is organizing a developer's meet on September 10-11, 2008 in Bangalore, India. The RIA Developer Summit is focused on developers. Adobe RIA Developer Summit offers a unique opportunity to designers and developers to gain insights into the design and development of RIAs. The key features ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2008/09/flex-developers-summit-india/ Now that Stockastica is fully ready, I have been working on porting the Stockastica Flex application to AIR. Porting any Flex application to AIR involves changing the <Application> tags to <WindowedApplication> and adding an XML file. It is painfully simple. I did spend some time adding features that are specific ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2008/05/air-application-presentation/ Things couldn't have gotten better. Almost an year back, Buzzy had developed this App Stockastica, a virtual stock market game using Visual Studio, retrieving live data from Nasdaq.com. It retrieved the Quotes of 20 companies, and displayed them wherein, users could buy and sell stocks using virtual bounty. At the end ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2008/05/stockastica-version-10/ I have been developing on both Flex and Silverlight for some time, and now is as good a time as any to evaluate these two exciting technologies. My goal was to create two similar applications on both Flex and Silverlight. I decided to redo the Stockastica application. ... http://blog.buzzyand.me/2008/04/flex-vs-silverlight-my-views/