Funny enough not that so many post ago I started out a blog named similarly... and yet it's been a while longer since I haven't got to write, at least for this blog; which to me had become my singular place to be online... with my rants and all.
Along this time, lots of interested stuff has happened around the world and in my world itself, and so I am taking some time here to introduce to you guys what's going on...
Twitter
First off, I want to start by saying that during this past weeks twitter has become kind of my confident and life tracker: Who needs time tracker when you have twitter on hand? - sometimes I whish I could do a mix of both, maybe I should...
Silverlight
Twitter also brought me the news of Silverlight 1.0 being released, this news came from somebody from within Microsoft who twittered it from Australia; but then, I also realized by this same character that one of the projects I've been secretly working on was published to an early buggy build just hours before we had planned to publish the final version - that for sure put some pressing in our shoulders to wrap up QA and get the latest version online before the rest of world would wake up...
Happy though, as a direct result to this, I can also report that one of our first "commercial" Silverlight teasers was published as probably one of the coolest strategic partnerships Microsoft got together with the media industry - got to say that Microsoft has done a terrific job as getting so many early adopters to put up to their technology.
Past, Present & Future
But then, what is a teaser without a big, real thing following their steps? Well, that's where I am sitting now with my team, we are all working on phase 2, which will become a really cool thing once out, so watch out for what is coming, in the world of media entertainment.
RIA & The Game Ahead
An interesting thing to note though is that during this past month or so, we have got a variety of new breed of applications, architectures and ecosystems approaching prime time, and the development and design communities are rapidly waking up to this great phenomenon by joining discussions and better yet creating the next generation of Rich Interactive Experiences... I just can't handle more all that RIA-wording-war that I like my own better - sorry guys!
And as the base of all these we have Microsoft and Adobe who are putting their best at work by creating great tools that will enable, all of us in the commercial world, to create greater opportunities than ever since the dot Com era.
Coming up next...
Now, even though it is our work to live the day ahead as the rest of our coworkers, we cannot be blind to reality and the today of most of our businesses; that's why next week Adobe will be embracing over 4000 enthusiasts from all over the world in its Max Conference in Chicago, to show us both sides of this dreamed worlds: what can we get our hands on today and what can we expect for future experiences... all this will be up to us.
And for the today: there are a series of conferences happening all across the world in technologies such as Silverlight, one of which I will be getting the chance to talk at, this is the SilverlightDevCamp Chicago, just the day before we get together to celebrate Adobe's best of the best... so if you happen to get to town earlier just drop by, here is more info about it.
Ok, so it's getting late now, and if you are still reading this, then thank you! Great things are coming to this shores and let's mark this as my revamp to blogging again!
Cheers and hope to see you all in Chicago next week!
