O’Reilly: Inside RIA

In this tutorial we start to work with REST and Flex, are you asking what is and why use REST? REST is acronym for REpresentational State Transfer and it helps you to provide services to communicate with your database via XML but not only. With REST you can work in large web application until to small RIA, in fact is a scalable system that make all communication easier. Before starting with this tutorial you must download and configure your computer to work with Rails and Flex 4, instructions included. Follow along step by step to create an address book with REST and Flex.

What is SproutCore?

At WWDC 2008, Apple announced MobileMe - a massive overhaul to their .Mac service that included a desktop-like user experience running inside a Web browser. One of the more notable parts of the MobileMe launch (aside from the downtime) was the UI. The look and feel was not only as refined as that of Mac OS X - it was in some cases better.

Microsoft recently announced demos of two exciting Ruby on Rails developments. The first is a Silverlight application integrated with Ruby on Rails and the second is a demo of Microsoft's .NET Rails implementation, somewhat weirdly named "IronRuby." In this entry we'll discuss the announcement, Microsoft's implementation of Rails, and provide some resources for getting started in your own Rails education.