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Here’s a little clip of me talking about AIR on the Lab with Leo Laporte show.
We talked a little bit about what AIR is and then checked out some demos including Pownce, a Google Analytics app (correction there is no API for Google Analytics) and our SalesForce demo.
The second Nitobi Hack Day is coming up Feb 9th at our office. Doors open at 9am, Hacking Starts at 10am and Judging will be at 6pm. There’s an iPod Nano Video up for the best app. Sign up on upcoming. You can hack on whatever you want Ajax, Rails, Python, AIR…it’s all free game. Lunch will be provided.
InsideRIA is now officially live! I’m really stoked to be a part of this joint effort by O’reilly and Adobe. We’re going to be covering a wide range of topics including design, development and standards for RIAs. Even though Adobe is sponsoring this portal no technology is off limits so Ajax, Silverlight, Google Gears, Prism, etc are all in bounds. Of course there will be a healthy amount of chatter about Flash, Flex and AIR as these key tools in the RIA kit. I personally hope learn and share a lot about user experience, user interface patterns and new forms of analytics we’re going to need a world with more and more RIAs.
We’re
running a survey this month to gather information from web
designers and developers about the tools and platforms they’re using. It’s quite focused on development of Ajax user interfaces.
If you can spare three minutes, I’d appreciate it if you
the survey. It’s pretty brief-14 multiple choice and short answer
questions. One person who does will win an iPod Nano. We’ll be
publishing the survey results in February. So everyone wins really:)
I’m going to be talking at Ajax World East in New York this March 18-20th. Here’s the deal:
AJAX for the Masses: Building Rich User Interfaces in Dreamweaver
Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools-including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components-make it easy to build rich user interfaces in AJAX with no JavaScript coding.
Andre Charland will demonstrate how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps. After this session, even beginner developers will be able to add AJAX interactions to web applications. This session is a must for ambitious, novice and intermediate designers anxious to use AJAX in their applications.
Drop me a line if you’ve going to be there and would like to meet up.
I was recently invited by my good friends Ryan Stewart and Cote to participate in their weekly podcast about Rich Internet Applications. Episode 3 is up on Redmonk’s Podcast.
We covered quite a range of topics:
* Usability, User Experience
* Designer/Developers and Workflow
* BlazeDS
* 2008 RIA Predictions - Ajax all the way baby!
Just found a great review of Enterprise Ajax! the only criticism really is the fact that we cover JavaScript basics, but this is a necessary evil for most developers IMO.
Enterprise Ajax - Strategies For Building High Performance Web Applications - Book Review
Favorite Chapter
Chapter six, Ajax Architecture, was my favorite chapter of them all. Chapter six provides strategies and examples with regards to caching and throttling Ajax code. Speed is Ajax’s main purpose, in my opinion — if not for Ajax, we could simply make clicking links refresh the page. As with most aspects of computer development and speed, caching is extremely important. For developers who obsess over optimal loading time, this book may be worth the price just for this chapter.
Ajax and Beer 2.0 at Shebeen Room (Wednesday, February 6, 2008) - Upcoming
Ajax and Beer 1.0 was totally awesome. The only thing better than the first thing is the second thing. Especially if it has more features. Behold! I present to you: AJAX AND BEER 2.0
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Web designers can watch how visitors behave on sites
What are you looking at?
Sometimes, website designers don’t see the flaw of their own creation that deters a site’s visitors. They are so familiar with the site they built that they think everyone will be able to use it as easily as they do. If you want to see how people are really using your web pages, use Robot Replay to watch them interact with your site.
It’s neat to see RobotReplay picked up by some mainstream media…I wonder is that means it has a much broader appeal than we first thought. I do feel like usability and user experience are hitting main stream vogue, but I may be stuck in an echo chamber. Help;-)
Dave Johnson just put up a post titled “Ajax Alive and Kicking” that looks at where Ajax is today and what some of the new innovations in the space are. He identifies the key factors in why Ajax is still continuing to the be successful versus other RIA technologies and in particular Flex.
An additional benefit to Ajax (HTML + JS) is that its interactions are somewhat measurable, which is much more difficult in the Flash world. If you put Google Analytics on your Flash site and you don’t get much, a little bit more now with “Events” in Google Analytics but not much. How meaning is a page in the historical sense in an RIA? Of course this falls down in Ajax sites too, but tools like our RobotReplay are springing up to fill that void already, but I don’t see the same happening for Flash/Flex. Of course we’re looking at it, but it’s definitely a chicken and egg thing. One might choose Ajax over Flex because they can measure interactions and effectiveness of their public facing Ajax more easily, and we chose to build RobotReplay for Ajax first because more people use it. This is a very important decision if ad revenues and/or conversion rates mean anything to your business.
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