16 Dec 2007
It was good to be at initRIA, I met many (known or new) people. The event went fine, we had some good sessions. The following list was the agenda:-
- Data Visualization in Flex - Raghunath Rao, Adobe
- Flash for Flex developers - Bhavin Padhiyar, SAP
- RIAjaxified - Rakshith, Adobe
- Designing RIAs with RC pattern - Yash Mody, TeknoPoint Multimedia
- Building Live Documents - An online Office suite leveraging RIA technologies by Sumanth Raghavendra and Adarsh Kini, InstaColl
- Optimizing Flex and AS3 - Mrinal Wadhwa, SAP
- Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture Debabrata Acharjee, CapGemini
- Birds of a feather
We had couple of more session and some discussions (on Silverlight, AJAX etc) along with the above listed ones. I enjoyed most of the session, there is always something to learn. The most interesting session was by InstaCol guys, who showed us Live-Documents and also shared their experience with Adobe Flex.
I hope, all the slides/presentations (by everyone) would be uploaded to slideshare (preferably) or somewhere.
Around 130+ people were expected to attend (based on registration count) but it seems some fifty people showed up, which is not bad for something that was planned and organized in such a short time-span.
I feel, this is the first event, in India, which is focussed on the Flash Platform at the same time open for talks/discussions on all kind of RIA technologies. I am sure, next time (whenever it happens) we would have enough time to spread the word and developers from different RIA technology background can come up and share their views. As said, it was cool we had discussions on AJAX, Silverlight, AIR, Flex, Flash and RIA in general.
I managed to click some photographs, not really good quality due to my impatient and lazy nature since I have moved to Bangalore :-).Check out photographs.
Thanks to Mrinal Wadhwa of Bangalore FUG for taking the initiative and organizing the event. Thanks to Honeywell guys for a good venue with all facilities.
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13 Dec 2007
There are more seats available for initRIA event, if you have not yet registered, you can register here. You can read more details on Mrinal’s blog.
Two more days to go and I am already excited to meet everyone. I hope, I would get well by then.
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13 Dec 2007
I am again down with fever, cold, headache and what not. It’s seems smoking and improper (or no) eating have screwed up my immune system.
Once I get sick, it takes little longer to get well, one of the reason is the worse combination - staying alone and being sick.
Anyway, I am going to be fine. I am going to have proper eating habit now and work on quit-smoking-plan.
12 Dec 2007
It’s good to see Mixercast raised good amount of money ($4.25 Millions) in Series B round. This validates the idea of Mixercast platform. I hope, we would see more kick ass features in coming months. I wish them all the best.
Update: Mashable talks about it.
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09 Dec 2007
Google hates text-link-ads, I heard about it via Aral’s post. When I checked, I found search-result count related to me and my blog have gone down a lot.
Google is trying to control bloggers by not letting them use any other competitor products like text-link-ads?
Google adsense sucks, hence people use other stuff (TLA etc). It all sounds like M$ approach. I had never imagined, Google would do that.
07 Dec 2007
Bangalore Flex User Group, precisely Mrinal Wadha, is organizing initRIA on Dec 16, 2007. Haven’t heard about it? Please read the details.
I hope to see good crowd and sessions there.
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23 Nov 2007
Not many people know, I left Mixercast and joined Yahoo! again.
I have been busy settling down in Bangalore, which has changed a lot, it took sometime (three weeks) to find a nice apartment and driving/riding is more stressful.
Anyway, I am going to work on some interesting stuff in Yahoo!, actually there is a lot to do. I would keep posting, if I can :-)
I have been active in flex_india list, I read flexcoders and occasionally reply some mails. I still read MXNA in digest-mode (three times a week) and regular blogs (everyday).
It’s good to see Flex/Flash/AIR community growing globally and in India. Nice to see Adobe featuring Indian developers; Mrinal Wadhwa, a very passionate developer, has been featured on Adobe Developer Spotlight.
BTW! I feel AIR logo talks about specific technologies (it’s based on) instead of problems AIR could solve. What happens, if one more technology is added to the stack, logo would be changed?
Keith and John have been doing some fun stuff with AIR logo, check it out here and here.
22 Nov 2007
I heard about SWFObject html/javascript generator from a colleague. An useful tool for people who want to use Flash/Flex in their blog/webpage and not comfortable writing html/javascript code.
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22 Nov 2007
Sabeer Bhatia, one of the guys behind Hotmail, has been working on Live Documents, which has been announced a couple of days back. Live Documents is an office-suite for web and desktop (AIR?).
It is interesting to see, Live Documents chose to use Adobe Flash/Flex as front-end technology.
I read Zoho guys on Flash, I understand, it makes sense to use a technology that doesn’t have dependencies, easy to develop with, saves time, provides better experience to user and good for business. If Zoho guys think, they are achieving these goals with technologies of their choice, it’s totally fine. I would love to see how they respond to Live Documents release.
But hey, there are some (Live Documents, Buzzword, SlideRocket etc) which think Flash/Flex is cool (faster to develop, easier to use, consistent experience and better for business).
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09 Nov 2007
Adobe Buzzword is available, no need for private invite to use it. It took me couple of minutes to register, then I checked out Buzzword; I must say Buzzword rocks!
It has a usable, fast, responsive and sleek user-interface (UI). Buzzword also allows to save documents in different formats (.doc, office-xml etc).
It allows to insert images, tables, comments, notes etc. I loved the ui-interaction for each of these features. I don’t know how to express in words without showing the screen-shots, so why don’t you check it out :-)
Just wondering, who designed the user-interface of Buzzword?
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