Munawar Ahmed

Adobe Flex Application Examples

One of the premier technologies for creating rich internet applications (RIAs) is Adobe Flex. The technology was initially developed by Macromedia in 2004 and rolled out by Adobe in 2005 as the answer to designers and developers who were ready to take Flash to the next level and create rich, data-heavy, user-centered applications. Here’s a list of some great Flex applications on the market today. Of the list below, I worked on the WeightWatchers Plan Manager weight management application and McGraw-Hill Primis custom book builder application.

Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is a powerful, free, online image editor. It includes an amazingly complete set of editing tools and effects that will be familiar to Photoshop users.

Sprout Builder

Sprout provides users a well-designed, uncluttered workspace and intuitive toolset to create, publish, and manage interactive rich media widgets.

Ajax Examples

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript ans XML) is a collection of tools and techniques used to create rich internet applications. Ajax is a technique (not a technology) that uses XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, and JavaScript. The Ajax engine works within the Web browser (through JavaScript and the DOM) to render the Web application and handle any requests that the customer might have of the Web server. The beauty of it is that because the Ajax engine is handling the requests, it can hold most information in the engine itself, while allowing the interaction with the application and the customer to happen asynchronously and independently of any interaction with the server. Here’s a list of some of my favorite sites that use Ajax to create a great user experience.