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I’ll just give you one example. Last week my colleague and I were running a private Flex workshop for software architects of a large corporation who are about to start development with Flex. Needless to say that they are smart and experienced software professionals. Some of them already started working with Flex. While explaining various types of library linking in Flex, I said that if you don’t mention a class in the application, it won’t be included into the compiled SWF. One of the attendees responded, “It took me six hours to figure it out by myself”. He said it all.

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AIR adds to Flex has a pretty straightforward API for working with local files and directories. There is a simple mechanism of installing and upgrading AIR applications. If you want, you can digitally sign them too. AIR 1.5 introduces local encryption, which means that you can encrypt, say a user’s password and save it in a local storage. component allows you to build a Web browser in several minutes. Flex developers would love to have it too…

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While the concept of consolidation is certainly not new to IT organizations, its application is gradually expanding. This convergence of endpoint security and endpoint management has grown to include not just servers and other hardware, but also IT operations and tools. Evidence of this trend can be heard in hallways and lunch rooms as security and administrative teams compare notes.

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Although the term “Web 2.0″ does not have a rigorous definition, it is commonly used in at least two ways. First, it refers to Web applications that encourage social interaction or collective contribution for a common good. Second, it refers to Web programming techniques that lead to a rich and user-friendly interface. These techniques sometimes go by the name Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), though many implementations don’t use XML at all.

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With today’s EMC announcement of their cloud optimized storage (COS) platform called Atmos, we are starting to see the first time an enterprise ready attempt at a global cloud storage system. For the most part, these types of global distributed file systems have been what Chuck Hollis at EMC described as home grown solutions built by academics or hobbyists.

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Telerik has announced the Q3 2008 release of its RadControls UI components and Report designer. Telerik registers significant growth in its developer tools portfolio by adding an enterprise-grade ORM product and a rich suite of components for Silverlight. Telerik presents RadControls for Silverlight - the richest set of components for next-generation line-of-business applications. The great performance of the components is guaranteed by the smart use of data virtualization and Load on Demand mechanism, which results in significant performance gains.

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Storage has been like a penitential chain around Sun’s neck and it’s left unspeakable gouges. Sun’s $4.1 billion acquisition of StorageTek was one of the reasons the company wrote off $1.4 billion of its business in the September quarter. But, for the last couple of years Sun Storage has been working on a redemptive widget – called the world’s first Open Storage appliance – and Sun claims OSS will change forever how people buy and manage storage.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization and cloud computing technology provider Zeus Technology named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s upcoming 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), November 19-21, in San Jose, California. The conference will be colocated with SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.VirtualizationConference.com). Zeus Technology develops application traffic management software and appliances, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them faster, more reliable, more secure and easy to manage.

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The story of software development in the last few years has been driven by the need to provide a good user experience without installation issues and update woes. For some people that has meant building “smart client” applications, as promoted by Microsoft. For others, that has meant building rich Internet applications (RIAs) using technologies such as AJAX, Microsoft Silverlight, and Adobe Flash and Flex.

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Next week, I’ll be speaking at php|works and PyWorks in Atlanta on Representational State Transfer (REST). My talk is in the general track this time, so it’s good for both the PHP and Python audiences who will be attending the conference.

I’ve already invited the Atlanta PHP community, and if you’ll be in the Atlanta area, you should come, too. I can’t say it enough: the price of this conference compared to the value you receive from the talks and networking is a steal! In addition, if you sign up for the tutorials, you get a free training course at php|architect. You really can’t get a better deal at any other conference. I guarantee you’ll be glad you attended.