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Adobe has just added the public alpha for Apollo over at Adobe Labs. I’ve talked about how cool Apollo is before (read the article and make sure you watch the videos), and now developers anywhere can actually start using it. Adobe has released the SDK so you can start integrating the Apollo technology into your applications (guess where we’ll be doing some tests), the Apollo runtime and extensions for Flex Builder, if that’s what you use to develop your Flex applications. All these files (and documentation) are up for download. Even though I’ve said this before, it isn’t bad to stress how important this technology is for the fusion between what are now “Desktop applications” and “Web applications”. Some argue we’re going to see the web mitigate the notion of a desktop computer - and this is pretty much one giant leap in that direction.

Related links

Apollo on Adobe Labs, Official press release, Read/WriteWeb’s coverage

The Sun Web Developer Pack isn’t a sexy name, and having ‘Sun’ start it out often doesn’t help a technology…. but there is some good technology here. (more...)

GvaScript (pronounce “gee-vascript”) is a javascript framework born in Geneva, Switzerland (GVA is the IATA code for Geneva Cointrin International Airport).

It is built on top of the prototype object-oriented javascript framework (http://prototype.conio.net) and offers a number of extensions and widgets, such as keymap handling, application-specific events, autocompletion on input field, and a tree navigator

Documentation:

• GvaScript.Autocompleter: autocompletion on form input fields
• GvaScript.ChoiceList: Dropdown list of choices with navigation
• GvaScript.fireEvent: application-specific events
• GvaScript.protoExtensions: Extensions to prototype.js
• GvaScript::Intro: A javascript framework born in Geneva.
• KeyMap: Manage maps of handlers for key events
• TreeNavigator: Navigation in a tree structure

Despite living on CPAN this is all just pure JavaScript…. it just happens to use Perl for some build actions.

The AJAX Search team at Google has been creating wizards that wrap the search APIs. I placed a news bar on my own blog, and we just found a new one that displays blog search results. It is kinda crazy to be reading some page and seeing new content on a given topic show up in the bar sometimes minutes after the content has been pushed. I quickly created a blog bar for some of the frameworks: