Square Galaxy » Platforms http://squaregalaxy.com A blog by Jacob Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Adobe Error http://squaregalaxy.com/tech/adobe-error/ http://squaregalaxy.com/tech/adobe-error/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:38:01 +0000 Jacob http://jacob.peargrove.com/tech/2008/web-development/adobe-error/
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    • ]]>     Today, Adobe announced a new product: Adobe Air. The basic concept of this is that you can compile a web application that you’ve developed to be a run-time on a users system. Adobe accomplishes this through distribution of the WebKit HTML rendering engine. Basically, your apps run like they would in a web browser, except that they look more like they are a standalone desktop application.

    Adobe has done a good job at allowing Air applications integrate well with the desktop.

    Adobe isn’t the first to use internet delivery technologies for desktop applications. Mozilla’s XULRunner allows developers to create and package multi-platform programs based off the same technology that powers Firefox. However, Adobe has done a good job at making it simple to publish very traditional AJAX apps as desktop apps.

    Adobe’s big problem is they only support Windows and Mac. There is no Linux support, at least not yet. One of Adobe Air’s big selling point is that it makes it easy to create cross-platform applications. However, without Linux support, the most Adobe can advertise is dual-platform apps.

    For a great demo Air app, look at this complex YUI example.

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    ]]>     http://squaregalaxy.com/tech/adobe-error/feed/ 0     SCO goes private http://squaregalaxy.com/business/sco-goes-private/ http://squaregalaxy.com/business/sco-goes-private/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:51:16 +0000 Jacob http://jacob.peargrove.com/tech/2008/open-source/sco-goes-private/
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    • ]]>     According to a story on Slashdot today, The SCO Group received $100 million of investment to get themselves out of bankruptcy and back in the forward business direction.

    SCO has been in loosing in law suits it brought against Novell and IBM.

    I couldn’t think of better news. I mean, from the people perspective, any good engineers still left at SCO might not loose their job. From another people perspective, now SCO has money to pay Novell, so they don’t have to lay off people.

    All in all, I think all this means is there is a bigger turkey to roast and cut up.

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