Adobe financials: strong Creative Suite 5 and Flash, claims company undervalued
Adobe has released its financial results for its second quarter, reporting $227.3 million net income (GAAP) compared to $161.4 million in the same quarter last year; and revenue of $943 million which...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 9 Preview gets to 95% on Acid 3
Microsoft has released the fourth platform preview for Internet Explorer 9, which you can download here. This is the last preview before the beta release, expected in September. When IE9 was first...
View ArticleAdobe extends SVG, HTML 5 support in Illustrator
Adobe has released a preview of the Illustrator CSS5 HTML5 Pack. There is already an HTML 5 Pack for Dreamweaver. Illustrator CS5 could already export in SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format, but the...
View ArticleThe mystery of unexpected expiring sessions in ASP.NET
This is one of those posts that will not interest you unless you have a similar problem. That said, it does illustrate one general truth, that in software problems are often not what they first appear...
View ArticleDropbox turns to CoffeeScript to beat JavaScript syntactic noise
Dropbox is a high-profile convert to CoffeeScript, a language that has the elegance of Ruby or Python but compiles into clean JavaScript in order to run in the browser. The Dropbox team says that...
View ArticleAdobe Creating the Web, offers Edge animation tool for free
It is less than a year ago that Adobe pivoted wholeheartedly from Flash to HTML, a moment that to mind was marked by the acquisition of Nitobi, the PhoneGap company, announced at MAX in October 2011....
View ArticleVisual Studio LightSwitch HTML: mainly for mobile
Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch is an innovative development tool that lets you build multi-tier database applications without ever designing the user interface directly. Instead, you work with...
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Web page memory usage: how much is too much?
I have a web application that loads names into a picklist and the question came up: how many names would be too much for the web page to handle? What about 5,000 names, for example? Modern web browsers...
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