At Moov2 we have a lot of really exciting projects on the go and in the pipeline. We’re expanding our skill-sets and opening up more and more new opportunities. Coupled with one of our developers taking sabbatical we have a couple of new positions available and are looking for some hyper-enthusiastic devs to join our [...]
Continue readingI’m not sure if this is an issue with a recent Flash Player, Browser updates, OS, Hardware or whatever but in a recent application I noticed really poor responsiveness on mousewheel scrolling. This was also picked up by the client so it was time to sort it. These sort of issues are always a real [...]
Continue readingOkay so it’s a link bait, sensationalist title, but that fact I’ve recognised that fact makes it okay yeah? Anyway like I said you’re doing handlers wrong… or rather, to stop with the hype-generating, FUD-like statements; If you’re waiting for RPC/Async handlers to return in order to update your application’s interface then allow me to [...]
Continue readingI’ve been taking a look at Flex 4 skinning recently, a little late to the game but as the rest of the team was getting familiar I decided it was my time to step up. My first impressions were not that great but after familiarising myself with it I started to see the benefits. One [...]
Continue readingI’ve been using Buzzword for a few years now, it’s still one of the best examples of an RIA that stands up against it’s costlier, heavier installable counterparts. Having your documents online accessible from anywhere is a great facility plus, there are some truly innovative UI aspects that make using it a great experience, or [...]
Continue readingNo matter how much we spend on new hardware, progress bars, spinning timers, system freezes and occasionally crashes are a familiar site when developing RIAs. My Macbook Pro seems to be fast approaching the end of it’s life and I’ve started to think about a new machine. So I thought rather than spend forever looking [...]
Continue readingOkay so I’m a couple of days late on this one, however taking 3 days out of work takes it’s toll on the remaining 2 days of the week when you get back. We got to the hotel on Sunday morning with the best intentions of spending the day doing touristy things, unfortunately because of [...]
Continue readingAdobe’s Ethan, Ted and Ryan recently gave a big thumbs up to Firebrand an RIA for watching adverts. Niels Bruin responded with what I think is a very good wake-up call to the starry eyed approach to reviewing web apps with lots of transitions, reflections and other shiny bits. Niels highlights some real basic usability [...]
Continue readingIf you read my blog regularly, you’ll know I was quick to jump on the AIR trip. I do still very much like AIR, have seen some good AIR apps and believe it has some good potential. I’ve played with a couple of AIR apps, have seen several AIR presentations (even presented one) and made [...]
Continue readingI just read Aral’s post about Florian’s SWXml (an xml parser for SWX). I finished reading that post at 18:22 and by 18:25 I’d loaded my blog’s 10 most recent posts into flash! That’s incredible on the easy scale. All i’ve ever done with SWX before now was the moo-card tutorial (which is about 4 [...]
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