This article is a transcript from a recorded conversation I had with Anatole
Tartakovsky and Victor Rasputnis – my business partners at Farata Systems.
This conversation took place on the mountain after the day of skiing.
Yakov. There are many ways of creating Web applications and creating them for
the enterprises is not the same as developing a Web site for a pizzeria in
your neighborhood. During the last five years we’ve been using mainly Adobe
Flex for development of the front end of Web applications. Flex applications
work in a well known and predictable run-time environment called Flash
Player. The code is compiled and you have convenient tools for development.
Flex is undergoing “Under New Management” transformations these days.
Even though Flex remains the best framework for development of Web
applications, you can feel the pressure of HTML5. But using just HTM... (more)
On November 9, Adobe announced in a blog post[1] that it had decided to cease
efforts to develop browser plugins for mobile devices to play Flash,
indicating that HTML5 was "the best solution for creating and deploying
content in the browser across mobile platforms." In case that sounds like
Adobe abandoned Flash entirely, it should be noted that Adobe indicated their
intentions to continue to develop the AIR player for mobile devices, so that
the role for Flash on mobile devices would be restricted to native apps, just
not browser-based apps.
A few days later in another blog po... (more)
Each application developer faces the problem of logging usage information. On
the one hand, the more logging that's done the easier it is to detect and
locate the source of problems. On the other hand, large volume logging might
impair an application's performance.
This problem is typically solved by defining various log levels dependent on
a program's maturity. For example, a program in developmental stages would
have a higher logging requirements; logging requirements would be relatively
lower in the production phase. If an application requires a lot of logging
for audit purpo... (more)
After announcing support for Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 8 and 9 in
dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium we now also provide support for the latest
versions in the dynaTrace AJAX Edition.
The latest version of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.4 therefore gives you full
JavaScript, AJAX, Network and Rendering analysis support for Mozilla Firefox
8 and 9 as well as Internet Explorer 8 and 9.
You can also check out the Release Notes for a more detailed description of
the enhancements.
Three Steps to Get started with dynaTrace AJAX
Step 1: Download dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.4
Step 2: Take a lo... (more)
After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further
development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Abode has abandoned its
Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately toast, burned
by rival HTML5, a posthumous victory for Steve Jobs who openly loathed
Adobe's stuff.
Flash's future looks bleaker still considering Flex can build both desktop
and mobile apps.
The Apache Foundation will have to vote on whether it will take Flex and its
roadmap under its wing. Flex h... (more)
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