Flex going Open Source
April 26th, 2007
Looks like Adobe are making Flex open source. This is a brave move by Adobe but has to be the right one. By open-sourcing the platform they are reducing the barriers to entry for anyone worried about propriety Adobe software and it will allow them to go toe-to-toe with an entity the size of Microsoft. This continues a recent batch of Adobe open-sourcing including the ActionScript Virtual Machine, ISO standardization of PDF, Spry and the Flex-Ajax bridge.
So what’s in and what’s out of the open-source license:| In | Out |
| The compilers and debugger | The IDE |
| The AS core components | Flex Data Services |
| The Apollo Flex components | Flex Charting |
More in the Adobe FAQ.
Of course the key element underpinning the Flex architecture, the Flash platform remains closed source which seems to break with the model of open-sourcing the deeper levels of your stack, while making money on your value adds. Never-the-less this is a huge leap in the right direction.
RailsDAV Issue tracking on Lighthouse
April 20th, 2007
While I was away I noticed the release of the Lighthouse application for issue tracking by ActiveReload and thought this will be a great way to do my issue tracking on a few projects. I was going to setup a Trac instance for it but this may be an alternative which saves some time and effort on my part.
So there is now a public Lighthouse project for RailsDAV which I invite anyone using it to submit tickets for me with any problems they may be having, bugs, or feature requests.
I’ve also added a Paypal donate button because some nice chap said he would love to able to donate a little to keep this project alive which is awful kind of him. So if anyone wants to donate some money to RailsDAV and any other projects appearing on liverail.net go right ahead.
Thanks Stuart
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