Some remarkable apps written in JavaFX are starting to appear in the wild, seemingly proving the promise of rich application interfaces with short development times. One I came across this morning is the Canoo Music Pinboard, a proof-of-concept that gets its inspiration from Apple iTunes. According to the Canoo blog, the developers built the app [...]

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RockStarApps has put together a handy “Ajax Maps Bake-Off” which lets you see how the biggest Ajax-driven maps compare side-by-side. The page loads a Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo map side-by-side, and keeps them synchronized for easy comparison. The performance is – understandably – a little slow to keep the three maps sync’d, but it is [...]

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