18 month ago
deusx : Christian Cantrell: ActionScript Library for Amazon S3 - "I've been working on an Amazon S3 client in Apollo, and I finally got around to extracting the S3 library and making it its own project. I put it up on Google Code under the name as3awss3lib."
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18 month ago
jimray : What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo - A few things I missed earlier: Gears is a collaboration with Mozilla, Adobe and Opera (Apple?). Apollo will support Gears.
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18 month ago
deusx : Mike Chambers » Blog Archive » Apollo Beta will include SQLite Embedded Database - "Part of the announcement was that the upcoming beta of Apollo will also include SQLite to allow developers access to an embedded database for their applications."
jimray : Apollo Beta will include SQLite - And the Apollo data store will play nice with the Google Gears data store.
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19 month ago
deusx : Old Doug, New Tricks!: DryerFox - It's like Firefox, but inside a dryer! - "A rotating browser window wrapped by a dryer image."
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : Silly season [dive into mark] - Beautiful summation of the current Adobe Apollo/Microsoft Silverlight hype-off from Mark Pilgrim. "That poster may as well be titled "Fucked 6 Ways From Sunday," because that's what you'll be if you buy into any of this." #
jimray : Mark Pilgrim on Apollo, Silverlight and why he doesn't think you should use either - "Y’all have fun. Play with your vendor-specific runtimes. Don’t call me when you wake up one morning with a pink line in the round window and your BFF vendor won’t return your calls."
Simon Willison : Silly season - Silly season. Mark expresses exactly what I’ve been thinking. The fawning over Silverlight and Apollo is incredibly short sighted.
jcgregorio : Silly season [dive into mark] - ""building applications on the web that works."" Of course, all the commenters skip the money quote and try to defend their share-cropping platform of choice.
deusx : Silly season [dive into mark] - "Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases."
nelson : Silly season - Mark is cynical so I don't have to be
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19 month ago
wearehugh : Making it stick.: (Not) On Top Of The Web?
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19 month ago
jimray : Creating Apollo Applications using Flash CS3 - At some point, I'm going to have to sit down and come to an understanding about Flash, Flex, Apollo and my place in that world
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Linkorama : The importance of View Source - One of the most interesting discussions in the session was precipitated when Messina voiced his concerns that “containers” for web functionality like Adobe Apollo and Microsoft Silver[light] would make it harder to create dynamic applications that lev
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20 month ago
deusx : Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Doesn’t anyone remember Grand Central? - "I’m confused. What is Grand Central? Is that Apollo alpha. A pre-cursor or just something everyone wants to forget about? Google remembers it - 611k mentions of it - in fact. Others panned it back then."
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20 month ago
deusx : Kevin Lynch: Apollo alpha - "With Apollo, you can leverage existing web development skills (HTML, Flash, JavaScript, Ajax, Flex) to build and deploy RIAs to the desktop. ... Apollo will enable anyone with basic web development skills to create a desktop application."
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