For the past few weeks now I’ve been working on a new theme for my blog and I finally activated it. I started with greyville by Neuville and added my own personal touches.
One of the things I really like about this new theme is the AJAX panel on the right which lets you easily switch between a page listing, recent comments, categories and archives without having to reload the page.
My apologies if you noticed a brief interruption just now — I had to take a moment and upgrade from WordPress 2.1 to WordPress 2.5 due to recent blogroll spam. Hopefully this version plugs the security hole that let spammers add entries to my blogroll without my knowledge!
While this may not immediately seem related to LiveCycle and forms, it’s too important not to mention: Today, Adobe released version 1.0 of it’s AIR platform which basically lets you deploy Rich Internet Applications to user’s desktops and run across operating systems.
What’s the link with LiveCycle? Well, as of LiveCycle ES, all processes (new and deployed) now have a remoting interface which can be used to invoke a LiveCycle process from another application as well as pass input parameters to it.
This means that you could, for example, write an AIR application in Flex that has a "submit" button that could initiate a LiveCycle process, passing it some collected data, which would, in turn, assign a new form-filling task to a user. Upon opening the form as a PDF in Acrobat/Reader or as a Form Guide, the user would be presented with a pre-filled form or guide using the data that was submitted from the AIR application.
There’s so much potential there so go forth and mash-up! If you make something cool, please let me know!
It has been almost 4 months now since I put my blog on hold. Things were getting increasingly busy with my wife’s new clothing business, The Beautiful Pear, but now that we’ve been through our first year, the learning curve (for me) has leveled-off and I’m now able to refocus some energy into my blog.
I’ve been keeping track of the traffic since Oct 29, 2007, and despite my hiatus, many of you have kept finding useful stuff here with an average of 100 visits per day:
Thanks for sticking around and I hope I’ll be able to keep posting things that are of interest to all of you.
We’ll, it happened a little sooner than anticipated but the good news is that it only took a couple of hours rather than a couple of days!
Thank you for your patience during this time.
