RIA Weekly
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Michael Cote' and Ryan Stewart wrap up the weeks news and commentary in RIAs.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoKonductor Demo | Konductor’s Derek Zarbrook shows us a quick demo of Konductor. What I was interested in here was an application that used the desktop and client side benefits of AIR beyond just a “web app on your desk” scenarios. | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoKonductor’s Derek Zarbrook – Interview | While at Adobe MAX, I had the chance to talk with Konductor’s Derek Zarbrook. In this first part, he tells us about the company and the AIR-based content management product they have. Be sure to check out the demo in part two. | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoFedEx Critical Truck Tracking | While at Adobe MAX, I had the pleasure of talking with one of the customer keynotes, Adam Mollenkopf of FedEx Custom Critical. His team had worked on a Flash Platform and LiveCycle driven console for tracking high-dollar shipments and monitoring just about every aspect of the shipment itself. I'm always searching for stories of why an RIA (here, Flash) was used over Ajax or traditional GUIs, and I think in Adam does a good explanation of why they came to pick the Flash Platform over Ajax in the first part, the interview. We then sit down and he walks us through the demo of the console in action.In this interview, Adam first tells us what FedEx Custom Critical does, and then we jump into a discussion of how they came to select the Adobe stack for implementation of their shipment tracking console. They not only chose Flex and LiveCycle for the rich interface, but also for the high-speed data transfer between front-end and back-end. Adam really likes the data management that comes with the stack, esp. being able to use "true push" to the client.A full transcript is also available.Disclosure: Adobe is a client and sponsored this videos. | Free | View In iTunes | |
| 4 | VideoDemo: Fedex Critical Truck Tracking | While at Adobe MAX, I had the pleasure of talking with one of the customer keynotes, Adam Mollenkopf of FedEx Custom Critical. His team had worked on a Flash Platform and LiveCycle driven console for tracking high-dollar shipments and monitoring just about every aspect of the shipment itself. I'm always searching for stories of why an RIA (here, Flash) was used over Ajax or traditional GUIs, and I think in Adam does a good explanation of why they came to pick the Flash Platform over Ajax in the first part, the interview. We then sit down and he walks us through the demo of the console in action.During the demo, here, in addition to the general RIA-ness, the special thing to note is the rules engine backing all of the predictions and analyzing sensor and geo data. Those create an interesting (and for FedEx useful) stream of real-time data to console of realtime data to churn over, expose in the RIA, and start making business decisions around.Disclosure: Adobe is a client and sponsored this videos. | Free | View In iTunes | |
| 5 | VideoRIA Weekly SXSW Special - JavaFX | While at SXSW 2009 this year, I stopped by the JavaFX booth to catch up with regular RIA Weekly guest, Joshua Marinacci.Disclosure: Sun is a client. | Free | View In iTunes | |
| 6 | VideoSteven Martin on MIX09 Announcements - Web Platform, App Gallery, Silverlight 3, and Azure | While at MIX09 this year, I had the chance to film three different interviews with Microsoft folks. The first of these interviews is with Microsoft's Steven Martin wherein we go over the bevy of announcements this year: Expression Blend, Silverlight 3, Media Server and Video, Web Platform, Web App Gallery, cloud computing with the Azure Services platform, just to name a few.Our discussion starts around the Web Platform and the installers that were released at MIX09. We talk about they fit into the full management of an applications life-cycle. We then get on to discussing the support for PHP and many PHP applications in Microsoft's Web Platform. This leads naturally to a discussion of the the App Gallery where Microsoft is hosting community projects, many of them open source, that can be added to the Web Platform.Getting into cloud computing and Azure, we next talk about the different deployment options (or runtime environments) that divide up Steven's world: the local host, in a data center, to a hoster, or cloud, here, Azure. This last runtime environment gets us into a discussion of why you'd use cloud computing and, implicitly, a discussion of what Microsoft's understanding of "cloud computing" is.Silverlight, Microsoft's RIA and multi-media platform, is the next topic of discussion. Here, we talk about the the out of the browser experience, synchronizing across different applications, and a few other topics.Disclosure: Microsoft sponsored this video and is a client. | Free | View In iTunes | |
| 7 | VideoUsing web technolgies for RIAs - Appcelerator - RIA Weekly #58 | While in Mountain View a little bit ago, I had the chance to catch up with Appcelerator's Jeff Haynie. While Jeff has been on RIA Weekly before, I start out by asking him to go over what Appecelerator does. As he susinctly puts it, their offerings focusing on providing a framework and runtime to develop applications for mobile, web, and desktop apps using web technologies (like JavaScript, CSS, HTML, you know, Ajax). We then get into a discussion of how Appcelerator came to see this as an opportunity, namely, using web programming as the model instead of programming models fit per deployment platform. Next, I ask Jeff if the goal is to provide a platform that automatically spins up UIs for different types of devices, or "screens." He says, no, in the sense that they want to have each type of interface specialized whether that's a native feel to mobile applications or desktops. As he says, designers and developers have said that they don't want applications to look the same across platforms. After this lay-up of context and capabilities, we get into the actual Appcelerator portfolio, namely Titanium, the runtime and tool-chain for building these web technology based applications. Jeff also goes over the cloud-based services Appcelerator provides - for example, for helping distribute applications, building across different platforms, and more.Knowing that Appcelerator had recently suveyed it's user base, I next ask Jeff to tell us the types of applications they're seeing developed on the platform. There's a wide spread of application types, esp. in iPhone-land, using Appcelerator, including several internal only applications businesses have been developing. Another interesting data point is that they've been seeing about a 50/50 split between developers doing iPhone and Android development.We then discuss how companies are seeking to do applications that move beyond, you know, fart apps and more into applications that support their business and brand. As Jeff says, some companies have felt they've missed out on fuller models of engagement (or "branding and marketing" if you prefer) in the web space and are looking for new ways of doing that in a post-web world. Finally, we talk about the commercial offerings and services that Appcelerator is going to be providing around (as briefly mentioned at the start) distributing applications, cross-compiling services, analytics, and other cloud-enabled offerings.Disclosure: Appcelerator is a client and sponsored this video. Adobe is a client as well. | Free | View In iTunes | |
| 8 | VideoRIA Weekly SXSW Special - Augmented Reality | Ryan Stewart shows us some a short, funky augmented reality demo using Flash, a webcam, and a specially printed piece of paper to integrate meat- and cyberspace.Disclosure: Adobe is a client. | Free | View In iTunes | |
| 9 | VideoSilverlight 3.0, Expression, and SketchFlow with Brad Becker - RIA Weekly #54 | While at the Silverlight 3.0 launch event last week, I had the chance to talk with Microsoft's Brad Becker, who you might recall from a past RIA Weekly episode. We start out with a quick overview of the announcements on Silverlight 3.0 and Expression, and then get into the details of each.Starting with the whole collection, I note that there seems to be a definite "Silverlight stack," composed of the Silverlight runtime, VisualStudio, and then Expression. As Brad ads, IIS and Windows Media are in there as well.These last parts of the Silverlight stack, get us into a discussion of the video features in Silverlight such as Smooth Streaming. I was curious to hear what the experience was like for getting video hooked up into Silverlight, so I asked Brad to give me an overview. Shiftly slightly to the non-video part of Silverlight, we then discuss the interactive widgets that you often see around video examples, be they ways for users to interact with MGM's Stargate application, NBC Sports broadcasts, or with HSN to look at products being sold.Moving onto the more application-y side of things, I ask Brad to go over the non-video functionality in Silverlight 3.0. In addition to the usual gaggle of developer-centric .Net pull-along, Brad starts out telling us about the Out-of-Browser functionality in Silverlight 3.0. In a round about way, I then ask Brad why people would want to use Out-of-Browser: what are folks using it now motivated by? Brad starts by talking about giving customers "one click access" to you application and content, throwing out one of the customer cases from that morning, Accenture's BusinessTV. For folks delivering software, Brad says, the value is in knowing one technology base - .Net - to cover a wider gamut of deployment options: a desktop app and a web app.Brad then goes over another customer case from the morning, Continental's use of Silverlight to modernize one of their call center application for reservations.I then ask Brad to go over SketchFlow, included in Expression. While it's a very visual tool, he does a good job of going over the functionality, reasons for using it, and how it fits into the design workflow.Having gone through all of this, I ask Brad to tell us how Microsoft has packaged it all up for purchase and use. He gives us the overview and pricing that had been covered that morning.Disclosure: Microsoft is a client and sponsored this video. | Free | View In iTunes | |
| 10 | VideoMaking apps, not just applications - WaveMaker is the saddle to the cloud | I often talk about the concept of developing "apps" versus full-blown "applications." The idea is that the current mobile space has shown the efficiency of having smaller applications that narrow down to just one feature, or workflow. That doesn't apply across the board, but it does contrast with more traditional application development that tends to want to do more rather than less.While I was visiting with RedMonk client WaveMaker last week, their CEO, Chris Keene, and I discussed this concept and how WaveMaker is seeing it play out in their user-base.As you may recall, we talked with Chris back in 2008 in RIA Weekly episode #11.Disclosure: WaveMaker is a client and sponsored this video. | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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