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London User Group - August 2008

Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX - which should you choose?

Here are the details of the August London User Group.

  • Title : Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX - which should you choose?
  • Summary : Rich Internet Applications are a hot topic at the moment; with Adobe, Microsoft and Sun vying for your attention in a post-AJAX world. But which should you choose? In this session, Simon Brown will present a look at three major RIA platforms - Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX. A common example will be used to demonstrate each of the platforms, additionally acting as a baseline for an unbiased comparison of the code, development paradigm, flexibility, ease of use and so on. The format will be presentation followed by a roundtable discussion where you can ask questions and share your own RIA experiences. Come along and let the RIA debate begin.
  • Date : Wednesday, 20th August 2008
  • Time : 18:30-20:00
  • Location : Skills Matter, 1 Sekforde Street
  • Format : Presentation and discussion, with further discussion in a local pub (The Crown).
  • Cost : Free, but registration is required.

Skills Matter
Many thanks to Skills Matter for sponsoring the user group.

Update, 13th August : Registration link added and we also have Adobe stuff to giveaway!



JavaFX : why, how and when will it be successful?

At the August 2008 Coding the Architecture London User Group, I presented an overview of Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX. If you've watched the video from the session, you would have seen that I wasn't very complimentary about JavaFX.

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