I am pleased to announce that our next Wellington Java User Group meeting will be held on: Wednesday, 13th. September, 2006 5.00pm for 5:15-6:30pm The venue is...
The following article is quite interesting: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/09/05/What-Ruby-Needs Tim Bray is Director of Web Technologies for...
Hi everyone, I have a policy of admitting: (1) only people with a .nz address or (2) anyone else that has been personally vouched for by James or Martin (or...
Hi all, I am pleased to announce that our next Auckland Java Community (Java User Group) meeting will be held on: Wednesday, 20th September, 2006 6.00pm-9:30pm...
... Agreed. This is the NZ java list and is therefore good for answering New Zealand questions. If you need to ask a technical question it's not a particularly...
Local NZ Java is good. There are other forums for more general Java technical discussions... Cheers! James ... -- James Beamish-White Managing Director TEIQ...
Are .NET developers "foreign"? ;-) For my 2c, I dont know if I'd have it as open slather, but I think more is usually better, within reason. ... -- Nic Wise -...
BTW, the NZ .NET list is MENT to be NZ only, but there is no checking. That said, one of the more valuable contributors lives in Italy (tho he wants to move to...
+1 from me as well (is this the Digg e-mail system?) Martin ... -- ================================================================== Martin Paulo, BSc. MNZCS....
Has anyone had a play around with / got any thoughts on Flex? I had a brief look the other day; seems to be a pretty neat way of getting a RIA together in not...
I had a play recently with OpenLaszlo and was reasonably impressed. It is an open source alternative to Flex that compiles XML + JavaScript into Flash. IBM...
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What are people's thoughts on this? Does anyone see Flex increasing in popularity (I'm assuming the vast majority of RIAs out there are AJAX based)? Adobe...
But despite my earlier negative comments, if anyone wants to learn more about flex here is a nice article: http://coenraets.org/testdrive/flex4j/index.htm ...
"The Flex Builder 2 IDE is based on the Eclipse open source software development platform and costs $499. Flex Data Services licensing starts at $20,000 per...
Looked at it some time ago - nice way to crow-bar a Windows style UI onto the Web - if you want to pay for Flex licenses - and expect Adobe to be "nice". In...
Hmm, I'm doing a lot of Flex development for over 2 years now and I wouldn't predict Ajax to be the clear winner in the Ajax vs. Flex competition - if there is...
Well, if nothing else, I can now see exactly what Microsoft is targetting with WPF and WPF/e :) ... -- Nic Wise - Microsoft MVP (.NET) - nicw AT fastchicken...
I'm just getting back into a more web (RIA, frameworks, scripting etc) orientated frame of mind after recently changing jobs, so this is all interesting stuff...
... "Requires Flash version 8". I guess I'll have to wait till next year before I can watch it on my Linux box. Also in the "what took them so long?" category,...
?? I was watching it on my Linux box .... well the slides came up which I am guessing is all I needed to see? ... -- Shane Mingins [Non-text portions of this...
I want my MTV... The slides came up for me as well, but no video. And yes, I can get by on the slides alone, but it is nice to be able to put a face to the ...
lol. I installed Ubuntu a month or so ago and it killed windows ... so I thought "bye windows" ... and so far it is fine ... but this is at work ... at home I...
Hi all, the company I am working for has plans for migrating a Powerbuilder application to a J2EE web app. We already have a prototype where the Powerbuilder...