http://blog.uplevel.pl Webware and Rich Internet Applications Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:14:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you think about it, we're living now in extremely time precisely world. A couple of years ago a term "time estimation" was a little bit abstract. Wasn't a big deal to went wrong with time estimation at the level of days or weeks. Today we have different time granulation. ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2009/06/paymo-experiment/ Another good news for someone who really likes Adobe Flex/AIR and Smalltalk environments. Last time I wrote here about Glare project, and now there is an excellent example to build simple Adobe Air app with Smalltalk backend. I have only a one wish, if Glare will be available on other ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2009/06/adobe-air-and-smalltalk-integration-example/ Some time ago i have written about seaside and squeak on my polish blog - here. reason for that was because people do not always realized that smalltalk didn't die at the same time as dinosaurs. Anyway, i'm lucky and working not only with one technology so was very happy ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2009/04/smalltalk-and-adobe-flex/ Last time I hadn't much time to writing here but it will change now hopefully. First of all we are generally working with PureMVC in our projects. Sometimes I'm wondering if that's not overkill but in most situations it gives us really productive framework. Anyway my company mate had last ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2009/03/puremvc-resources/ I usually don't like to copy other's articles here, but this one is really helpful and made by my friend so enjoy :). Source: Shoutwaves blog Some time ago I had a lot of problems with starting new projects. Common tasks had to be made. That’s why I’ve build flashdevelop as3 template ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2008/11/puremvc-project-template-for-flashdevelop-30-with-preloader/ Hello ! It was a big break from posting here, but many things changing now in our company so I have many things to handle and not really much time to writing here, but now it will be change ! Last time we're working on few projects on Google App ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2008/11/google-app-engine-and-django/ Hi everyone! Just few days ago a new cool plugin for Firefox has been presented. His name is ubiquity. Remember that name, becouse it's very helpfull and powerfull tool. It's still in early version (0.1) but you can find out yourself how usefull it can be even right now. Here ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2008/08/ubiquity/ Yesterday on this site a new interesting cheatsheet for cake was published. It contains a set of cake build-in validation rules with some short examples of how to use it. It's useful, looks nice and it should hang near every CakePHP developers desk! http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2008/08/validation_chetsheet/ Last time I found interesting tool called Balsamiq Mockups. It is a Flash based mock-up toolset for rapid prototyping UI designs. I've been using many different applications for gui prototyping but this one is really cool and useful. It is simple, powerful and flexible, this is exactly what gui prototyping ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2008/08/balsamiq-mockups-and-prototyping-tools/ "Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios." This is ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2008/08/aurora-concept-video/ One of the most exciting thing in Ruby and Ruby frameworks like Rails and Merb is Behavior Driven Development framework - RSpec. Generally BDD provides new quality in testing and documenting our code. RSpec is a brilliant example of Ruby possibilities, I mean DSL ( Domain Specific Language ). But ... http://blog.uplevel.pl/index.php/2008/07/bdd-with-smalltalk/