Interesting benchmarks and comparison of Apollo, Flex, DHTML and WPF.

[via Ryan Stewart]

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Check this Youtube video which shows a presentation of a next generation touchscreen interface.

Incredible! Remembers me of the interface of the movie Minority Report used by Tom Cruise.

[via Fatara Systems]

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The Zeroi repository has been moved to Google Code and Jens Krause has extended it with XTrace Support. Check his tutorial and thanks for contributing!

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If you are using Flex be sure to download the latest hotfix.

This update includes bugfixes for the components like DataGrid, CellRenderer, Tree and other fixes and improvments.

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Yesterday Apollo was released on Adobe Labs.

“Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.”

• Apollo Samples
• Lynda.com Introduction videos by Mike Chambers
• Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Guide (free PFD download)
• Apollocoders Mailinglist
• Darron Schall on File API (and his blogpost with further links)

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Ely Greenfield (Quietly Scheming) has made a wonderful flipbook engine which is open source.

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There is a new project hosted on Google Code with very usefull flex components. The components extend the build-in components with very nice features.

Read the blog anouncement and browse the components.

My favourite is the SuperTabNavigator which acts like in Firefox and is highly configurable. But also the HAccordion and other components fullfill the build-in compoment set of flex.

Many thanks to the authors and hopefully there will be more contributers me included!

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