My talk at CommunityOne went off without a hitch and was possibly even well received. After which Andre and I went on to check out the RedMonk track at CommunityOne, which was inciteful as one would expect. We participated in a few discussions around cloud computing, twitter and, of course, RIA. I think from the discussion about RIAs I pretty much decided the only thing that makes an RIA is when an online application does not use page refreshes (too much). Flash, Silverlight and Ajax all share this one common thread. It was a good time and got even better at the house of shields after (between which was dinner with Dion, Ben, Chet, James and Andre).
At any rate, there have been lots of good conversations with all sorts of differentpeople and the creative juices are flowing. Can’t wait to find time to get some code written
Tomorrow is the Anchor Steam tour that Mike Chambers has organized - needless to say I can’t wait!
We managed to finally pull things together and get the release out despite some attempts by .NET build tools to sabotage the entire release!
With this release we now support Safari 3, have added a bunch of new themes to help you make your apps look hot, some new Dreamweaver extensions that mean there is no JavaScript to write to make master-detail grid or combo applications, and most importantly Mike did an awesome job on getting the new TreeGrid component done!
There are some exciting things in the works as well for next week - including screencasts and even some JavaServer Faces love!
We are almost a month behind now on the Q2 release of Complete UI but Mike and I are in the final throws of polishing. We are shooting for releasing today and if that fails tomorrow at the latest. As people will know from the beta we are releasing support for Safari 3, new Dreamweaver Extensions, new themes and, most importantly, a new component called TreeGrid for displaying hierarchical data. I have a can of Red Bull in hand and one last Safari Combo bug to fix before the building will commence!
So I have been accepted to give a presentation at CommunityOne, which occurs the day before JavaOne on May 5. I am going to talk about JavaScript + DOM patterns. I was going to focus on the JavaScript and DOM details around some common Ajax patterns such as those covered conceptually by Michael and Bill. Any ideas would be more than welcome!
Andre and I are also going to take part in the RedMonk CommunityOne festivities as much as possible as well which should certainly be a blast.
This is a bit of a digression but what a sweet picture. Ryan looks badass and Cote is all choked up!
This is a really exciting new project (working with Verb Exchange) where we are building an AIR XMPP client for a VOIP system that lets people use their existing phones to make cheap calls and SMS.
UPDATE: Oh yah and hopefully we will be hanging out at the Redmonk unconference the rest of the time as Andre mentions below.
Looks like I am going to be speaking at CommunityOne again this year which is immediately before JavaOne down in San Fran.
I spoke at both last year but to tell you the truth I thought that the audience was much better (and bigger) at the CommunityOne presentation. Hopefully it will be good again this year.
Last year I presented on Ajax testing and debugging while this year I am going to talk about something more JavaScripty in DOM design patterns. I am going to write a blog post shortly about the idea and try to get some feedback from everyone.
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