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Probably this is the most important thing ever said about Apollo so loudly:

“The reason Apollo is so important is because it changes the rules of the game. It is taking the technologies and tenants of the web and bringing them to the desktop. Apollo is cross platform and gives web developers access to things like the file system and close integration with the operating system in a set of APIs that are the same whether you??™re writing in JavaScript or ActionScript. The web fostered an explosion in the creativity of application development and Apollo will undoubtedly do the same for desktop development.”

Ryan Stewart, TechCrunch
“Adobe??™s Apollo Provides New Ground For Entrepreneurs“

Idea of creation Flex applications with slick Rails scaffolding-like approach came to me just in moment when I introduced myself to Ruby on Rails (Google translation from Russian) inspired by Michael Klishin; more exactly, when I have learned what scaffolding is (roughly said, the procedure of automatic creation the whole MVC stuff by given data structure). This idea has flooded the space since then and its density has reached the critical value:

Sep 10th, 2006
Alex MacCaw announced he has started creation of the Cairngorm Rails Generator.

Jan 10th, 2007
Ilya Devers has published the first stable version of his Ruby on Rails Cairngorm Generators set at Google Code. Download: cairngorm-rails-generator.zip.

It does:

• Take your application name and create typical Cairngorm structure, including modelLocator, frontController, services.mxml and application itself. You can also set the package structure.
• Create (server) delegates.
• Generate Cairngorm Commands, Events and comments.
• Create standalone events and value objects (though author acknowledges that it could make more sense to create VOs based on model classes).
• Include generator for WebOrb Service class.

Jan 27th, 2007
Michael Klishin has posted a great article named “Ruby / DSL Saves Your Soul and Makes You a Happy Flex developer” (Google translation from Russian).

Good idea never come into only head alone. Things become dangerous and amazing.

1. Johannes Gutenberg, european inventor of printing with movable type has passed away in poverty and debt, but very soon after his death his creditors made a lot of money.
2. Columbus has opened America and has finished in powerty at the hospital berth; but tobacco companies prosper.
3. A thousands of flash developers create games and usually sell them just one time to client (how often their fee is aligned with development time and comlexity?). Then these games are being stolen by collector web sites kinda best-free-game.com or 2flashgames.com, whose owners haven’t made any effort nor to create of the game, neither to provide payments to its authors.

That’s why the kongregate (referrer link) website was needed and consequently was born. This is the place where flash game developer are invited as much as game players are.

The principle is simple: you (game developer) upload your game to kongregate website and kongregate pay back to you as result of sharing money from ads rotation. It is honest. The more popular your game, the more your money is. The more popular kongregate, the deeper in the asshole thieves, who don’t pay game creators any cent or even backlink.

The creator of coca cola hasn’t became a richman, as many other inventors hasn’t — unlike a crowd of moneymakers who adroitly use their inventions.

So let??™s leave the thieves without income and hope for the future.

As you go from one blog to another and leaving your comments at the different websites, it is useful to have easy-to-use Comment Gathering Tool which can easily save all your comments in one place by one click.

Info needed to be saved:

• Title of page being commented
• URL
• RSS (if present)
• Date
• Comment title (if present)
• Comment text

It is certainly needed tool. For example, LiveJournal users have had requested such one a lot of times.