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Wanted! Senior Flex Developer |
| by Neil Middleton 3:44 pm Tuesday, 30 September 2008. |
We’re the UK leader in RIA development and building incredible applications with Flex is our forté. We’re growing like crazy because the world has woken up and realized that Web applications don’t have to be boring or painful to use. That means we need to grow. That means we need you.
A bit about us…we’re an interesting mix of competitive and casual providing a fun and exciting environment to work in where good development comes first and office politics are shown the door. We’re the UK market leaders in RIA development because we’re very good at what we do and because we allow our incredibly talented developers to do what they do best in creative and fun environments. What you will find is passionate and energetic developers like yourself having a blast building incredible applications. If that sounds like an environment you’d like to “work” in, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for energetic and talented Flex/AIR developers looking to push the boundaries of RIA. We’d love to hear that you’re comfortable creating customized components, working with MVC frameworks, skinning and working in SOA environments such as REST, AMF, or SOAP. But more than anything we’d love to hear about your passion for Flex and RIA. You will have end-to-end responsibilities for designing and developing applications and components within a range of rich internet applications. In addition, you will be involved with product planning and mentoring other developers.
Key Skills:
Adobe Flex 3 SDK and the Flex Builder environment, ActionScript 3.0, XML, HTML/XHTML and OOD.
Additional Requirements:
Ideal Flex candidate will demonstrate knowledge of:
If you are interested in working on cutting-edge technologies developing cutting-edge applications, drop us a line!
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Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available |
| by Neil Middleton 10:01 am Friday, 26 September 2008. |
This morning, Microsoft announced the release of the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2 prior to shipping next month.
So what’s changed?
1) API Updates
There’s loads of little bug fixes in the core API’s designed to fix the differences between Silverlight and the full .NET framework. There has also been a load of performance improvements made throughout the runtime. There has also been some style updates made.
2) New Controls
Three new major controls have been added: PasswordBox, ComboBox and ProgressBar. You can see the appearence of these here:
3) New Control Skins
The final release of Silverlight 2 will have a much more polished set of default control template skins than those that were in Beta1 and Beta2. The goal with the default control templates is to have a look that is professional and attractive, can be used in the majority of applications as-is (without requiring you to author custom style templates), and which is also easily tweakable using Expression Blend.
Today’s RC build has skins that are close to the final look Microsoft plan to ship. Below is the default look for the DataGrid, RadioButton, CheckBoxes, and the DatePicker controls with today’s RC build:
Previous releases of Silverlight often rendered graphics on sub-pixel locations - which could cause lines and shapes to sometimes appear “fuzzy”. The RC of Silverlight has a new features called “layout rounding” that causes the layout system to round the final measure of a control to an integer (”pixel snapping”), which results in crisper lines and fewer rendering artifacts. This feature is now on by default, and helps make applications look nicer.
The final release of Silverlight is not that far off now. It has been a pretty amazing project that has come a long way in a pretty short amount of time. For the full low-down on what’s new in this release, please take a look at here. We can’t wait.
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Iphone - now what next? |
| by Adrian Munn 8:35 am . |
Finally took delivery of my new iPhone and have to admit I love it. I would urge anyone who has taken delivery of one to upgrade their phone software to take advantage of the improvements to signal and battery life. With all the features it’s so easy to run out of juice which really was a pain before the update.
Of course the salesman that I am now feels 100% in touch but also thinking of all of the endless application that could be built for the phone. Just when you thought apple had hot it wrapped Google (once again) step into the mix with their own phone.
I am truley of the opinion that keyboardless mousless computers are only a stones throw away. Come 2012 you will all be talking to your computers!!!
And to think I did this blog from my iPhone sitting on a train into London great stuff.
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A Question to the Masses… |
| by Neil Middleton 4:44 pm Monday, 22 September 2008. |
We at Monochrome are very intrigued to understand which technologies out of Silverlight, Flex and AJAX you would wish to use and why? What do you really think of Microsoft and Adobe’s offering and do you feel AJAX has really had the shot in the arm it needed through Google’s Chrome?
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Monochrome attends the Microsoft Executive Briefing |
| by Adrian Munn 4:41 pm . |
We had the pleasure of being invited to Microsoft in Redmond to be given an insight into the future Road map for Microsoft’s products, It’s not every day you get the opportunity to lift the lid on all the development goodies and new projects that the our friends in Redmond have up their sleeves and get to share this with a select few of high profile re-sellers. We sat and waited and for the next 2 days they didn’t disappoint. What’s more frustrating is that as much as I want to tell you all of the upcoming things that they have in store I am on penalty of death and NDA. As soon as I have the shackles removed from my ankles and the gag taken off my mouth your all be the first to know!!!
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