As you know the site is closing on January 31st, so I just wanted to take this last opportunity to say thank you to O'Reilly for giving me the opportunity to work on such a great project. I would also like to thank Adobe for their support, the authors for their dedication, and all in the community who I have supported the site.

I've been doing the Developer Diary for almost two years now. If you've been reading my posts over that time, you already know that I like to nail down the finer points of code. Today, a coworker and I...

jQuery 1.5 moves closer to release. Today, the latest build is now a Release Candidate.

The World Wide Web Consortium Group gives emerging new technologies a new brand.

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War , the oldest Flash military treatise in the world . In this AFT I will go over - Speaking At Conferences. I...

We here at InsideRIA have an announcement for you our readers: InsideRIA will no longer be adding new content to the site as of January 31, 2011. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed content to the site...

I recently ran into an interesting article titled "The Web is a Customer Service Medium" in which the author (Paul Ford) makes a very compelling case that the Web is specifically "for" the purpose of letting people express their opinions. This article has really had me thinking the past few days about the nature of the medium I work in as a web developer, and I wanted to share some of those thoughts here.

I recently read Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton and it's become one of my favorite books explaining the value of design to non-designers. Buxton wrote the book specifically with business audiences in mind and does an excellent job describing both the value and method of design. This is no easy task, as the definition is contentious amongst the well established designers in the field, but Buxton handles the task gracefully.

The floor is electric since we've had our new team structure. Everyone is excited to be working together and excited about what they are doing. This heightened level of engagement is thrilling and I'm proud to be a part of it.

The new jQuery 1.5 is coming very soon. If you want to try out the code you can download is now using the new beta. This release is a big deal!

How do you get involved with the jQuery Community? Find out here!

In this recipe, we shall take a look at generating charts using the HTML5 Canvas API. In particular we shall be using a library RGraph, which makes internally uses the Canvas API and makes the entire process of generating charts...

©2011 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. This excerpt is published by permission of the copyright holder/publisher: Data Visualization in Flash Builder: Designing RIA and AIR Applications with Remote Data Sources, by Cesare Rocchi ISBN: 978-0-240-81503-9 Events As we have...

In software development it is not uncommon to get requirements that are vague and lofty, with ideals that it should be written once and run well on everything (including platforms or devices that haven't even been dreamed of yet). With the emergence of tablets, we're starting to see this as well. You may hear "this application needs to run on Android, the iPad, the new HP WebOS platform, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Windows Phone 7, and the Windows tablets." Let's look at your options.

Last night, I was speaking for the Atlanta Flash and Flex User Group, and I mentioned the Actionscript 3 Design Patterns Blog in passing. It turns out that most of the members, even those who read InsideRIA on a...

Learn how to set up a clean install of Windows to become the perfect dev environment. I go through a list of apps I find critical to the mobile and web development I do.

The goal is for each member of the team to be able to switch on the fly to work on any of the product verticals. Previously each member of the team was on one of three product vertical teams, so each has specific domain knowledge that they need to share with each other.

We shall conclude looking at HTML5 form features by discussing form validation in this recipe. Form validation is an important feature of any web application that takes input from the user. To validate form data before submission to the server...

HTML5 got totally branded today. The W3C partnered with Ocupop to create a fresh new look for the technology, giving developers and marketers something to rally around.

In this post I will highlight a my setup and what you should consider buying to make professional looking video tutorials.