About
-About d.CAT - the RIA blog
“RIA is not about doing fancy things, it’s about getting things done with better user experiences”
Intro
We are a group of Flex/Apollo experts in Asia (ranging from Taiwan, China, Japan and Hong Kong) working with Flex and AIR on a daily basis.
This blog is the place we collaborated on for sharing our extensive experiences with Flash platform, it’s all about Flex, AIR, Flash, Actionscript, AMF, Flash Media Server, Flashlite and so on, you get the idea.
Our Skills
Expert level in
* Flex 2, AIR and Actionscript 3.0 development
* Flash/Actionscript (AS2/AS3) development
* Usability, user experience and user interface design
* Extensive Flash experience including: flash remoting, data binding, custom component development, framework design and development
* Flash Communication Server / Flash Media Server application development
* Very strong and solid knowledge about Object Oriented Analysis/Design and Programming and UML
* Significant experience working with server side technologies (Ruby on Rails / PHP / Java/ MYSQL ) interfacing with web services and XML
* Unit testing frameworks (ASUnit, FlexUnit)
* Cairngorm, PureMVC and RIAwave application framework
* Extreme programming / agile methodologies
Professional Experience
* Riawave - a lightweight flex framework for rapid application development, it was opensourced and introduced to the public in 2006.
* Extensive experience developing custom UI components, like Gridtree (datagrid + tree), Resizable Panels and MDI toolbars, and API design
Contract / Off-shore development
We had been constantly working on Flex/AIR projects for clients in US, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Russia and China. Please feel free to drop us a line if you have got questions or inquiries.

