Andre’s Blog

From InsideRIA:
Dave Johnson, Alexei White and I have finally completed our video training series on Ajax development for high performance and large scale Ajax UIs. We took the book, Enterprise Ajax, we wrote last year and then recorded just over 8hrs worth of Ajax training. Hopefully it’s a bit easier for folks to swallow than the 500 page book;-)

From InsideRIA:
Ted Patrick just posted a screencast from Mark Anders where he gives a great overview of the roadmap for Flex 4 aka Gumbo , Flash Player 10, Degrafa and Thermo at 360 Flex.

From InsideRIA:
Google announced 2 new ways to make your apps location aware yesterday. One’s a web service that any web can take advantage the second is built into Google Gears, and runs on the mobile version of this plugin.

From InsideRIA:
It might be debatable whether a native app written Objective-C is an RIA, but most of the are internet connected at least part of the time and lots of the coolest iPhone apps I’m using run right in Safari on the iPhone. It’s not however debatable whether or not iPhone has raised the bar for slick and aesthetically pleasing UIs and if you’re going to develop a web app or native app for the iPhone you need to meet that bar to succeed. On that note here are a couple resources to make your iPhone apps look like Apple’s very own apps!

• What is an RIA?
  Simple: no page refresh. I like it!
  (tags: ria ajax nitobilikes definition nitobi davejohnson)

From InsideRIA:
The second annual iPhoneDevCamp has just started here at the Adobe offices in San Franciso. There’s about 300 people and I think most of them are planning to build an app or at least hack a little bit. The even runs from Friday night until Sunday night. The highlight of the even is certainly going to be the Hackathon where developers and designers will be splitting off into teams and trying to build an iPhone by Sunday afternoon for the grand demo. This year’s event has 60 sponsors as well!

From InsideRIA:
Big news for one of the shining lights in the VOIP, Flex and AIR world this morning. Ribbit was acquired by BT.

Ribbit has been acquired by BT one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services. This marks the most important day yet in Ribbit’s history. As part of BT will be able to more quickly extend our vision beyond Silicon Valley and bring our products and technology to the entire world. We couldn’t be more excited than to announce this new partnership.

From InsideRIA:
Grant Skinner has been thinking about and researching open sources licenses. I think this is timely blog post that everyone involved in software should take a look to get a quick high level understanding of the most popular open source licenses.

Congrats to Greg Scott and the Jiibe team for taking the 12th spot in this years PICK 20 list. It’s list put together by public selection and the final 20 are ranked by a panel of judges which comprised a group of experts in technology and business. PICK 20 is put on by Backbone Magazine and KPMG.

12. Jiibe
www.jiibe.com

For people considering a career move, Jiibe promises to help them “make better decisions for a happier life.

“I liked this one a lot, Moffitt said. “A fortune is spent recruiting talent. Here, companies and recruits can both benefit through the use of user-generated content and personality testing. Shuttleworth summed it up as “Monster meets Match.com with a dash of LinkedIn, but Geist was more cautious: “It’s an interesting site but I’m skeptical about its ability to deliver.

Nitobi helped Jiibe take their concept from idea to reality, and they aren’t finished yet. Expect more cutting corporate apps company from this start up in the coming months.

A big shout out to some of our other friends like Avi and the crew from DabbleDB, Nick Bouton the one man army behind Protagonize (Nick was also the lead developer on ThoughtFarmer), Weston from SomethingSimpler ,and Coleen from MovieSet! Go Cannucks!

Congrats again guys and keep up the good work!