TRINIX

I recently discovered “Lovely Charts” (http://www.lovelycharts.com). It’s an online Rich Internet Application build in Flex (flash GUI) and a PHP / MySQL back-end. It’s developed in Belgium (my country by Jérôme Cordiez (active at http://www.thisislovely.com ) and it’s really a piece of art.

Lovely charts allows you to create online charts – Diagrams – wireframes – …

This is like MS Visio but then really nice and easy and most important of all it’s ONLINE!!!
The interface is really intuitive and the functionality is almost complete (it’s still in Beta fase).

You can draw with lovely charts:

• Flowcharts
• Sitemaps
• Wireframes
• Organigram charts
• Network diagrams

The diagram symbols are vectorized and have a nice modern touch. The result are impressive charts and diagrams with a professional look. I tested already for personal use and now i’m even using it at my work as a Product Manager at StepStone Belgium. For my projects I have to create a lot of sitemaps, wireframes, diagrams, … and this tool just won over MS Visio. Creating complex sitemaps is no issue anymore. You can play around with all different arrows, colors, elements and symbols. Lovely charts allow you to create even the simplest or really complex diagrams without any problems, linking the different elements with one simple click. You can even specify the different types of arrow lines. When you are finished you can export your diagram / chart to a JPEG or PNG.

Everything is really straigtforward:

• drag-drop
• resize
• link elements
• adding text
• export

You can even select and manipulate multipe elements or use the keyboard to do actions.

I can’t say in words how much I like lovely Charts but just take a look at the impressive gallery and believe me afterwards you will signup. And the diagrams presented in the gallery are really created with lovely charts.

It’s a free service with the possibility to signup for a premium account.
With this premium account you can save your diagrams online.

Have a look at their gallery and watch the screencast at their nicely designed website
and Signup now for a free account

Ever wanted to re-create your own YouTube like clone.

Well read this article. It describes perfectly how you can achieve this.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/05/24/creating-mytube-with-flex-and-php.html

It explains how to set-up an PHP back end, with the FFmpeg video converter tool for converting the uploaded movies in a Flash Video (FLV) file and 2 version of a Flex GUI for the users.

Ever wondering what’s the difference between Apollo, Silverlight, Flex and JavaFX.

Here you will find your answers.

http://ttlnews.blogspot.com/2007/05/test_22.html

Update: http://trafficjam.trinix.be/flex

My trafficJam project is really going good, I made it in Flex to start with. Later I plan some developing with ExtJS .
The flex is at the moment in Alpha Fase, later this week I plan to release the public Beta.

Working with Flex is super easy, you can drag&drop elements on the canvas or set them in code.
My project is starting to get finished for the Beta release.

I can’t validate, retrieve data, send data, show data in a grid, use states, …

This all in just 1 day of work.

More info soon when Beta version is released.
http://trafficjam.trinix.be

As I mentioned before I will try some new technology for developing my RIA trafficJam.

Did some research on Flex and start building, Flex is really easy and nice looking.

Check out these Components Explorer, It pointed me in the right direction.

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html

also essential >> http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/

It’s hard to keep track of all the different frameworks and all RIA technology.

But on this blog I found an interesting post of the list of the tools for developing RIA.

Here a short list of the RIA mentioned:

• Flex
• Flash
• Laszlo
• NeoSwiff
• Xamlon Pro

Check out the full post : http://www.aralbalkan.com/330