Today Ryan Stewart wrote his last post over at ZDNet and with that the Universal Desktop, the all-things-RIA from ZDNet, stops it’s publishing.
Sad!
I am sad of this happening, with the RIA space sparkling in its foundations, rather than loosing spaces for covering their experiences, they should be evolving and growing with the industry.
On the other hand, I know that since Ryan joined Adobe, a couple of years ago, it has been difficult for him to keep his blog up to what it used to be, even when he did his best at it - When you are traveling around the world evangelizing one of the many technologies you’d to cover, time is at its best not your friend. But buddy, you will be missed!
Heck I even started this thing blogging after reading his blog and getting all hipped from this new cool thing named RIAs and after I meet him, I found on him a really cool buddy and an awesome professional.
Now RIAs are going at its mainstream, and as Ryan says new niches have been created base on the different front empowering them. Guys like the ones at O’Reilly’s InsideRIA even when trying their best, are still kind of an Inside-Adobe, as most of what they cover are Adobe based techs. We are missing a broader view.
We are missing one person or group of persons who can help the rest of the world see the RIA space for what it is. For their players as kind competitors trying to do their best with faults and gains. At analyzing upfront for all those companies and persons looking for their next rich platform to build upon.
I remember talking about this with both softies and adobe’s in several occasions, still no one has step out to this world.
Hopefully ZDNet will be able to help close the void Ryan leaves, and rather than empowering pissing contests on what platform is better at it, we could get true insight to the world of RIA, which now more than ever before, this game is truly getting Universal.
Good luck buddy and keep up the great work at Adobe ;-)
Cheers,
G.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
MIX 09 Sessions Video Podcast RSS for iPod & Zune Available Here
Even though I couldn’t assist to MIX this year - I’m stocked in South Korea pursuing my Master’s in HCI - I have been watching on-line some of the sessions that caught my attention from the conference, specially those on User Experience.
Just as previous years, Microsoft did a terrific job at making most of this year’s sessions available on the web within the first 24 hours from them happening, and for people like me, between that and twitter, it felt almost like been there in person – of course, if staying late at night in the Lab with no beers IS like been there - but you get what I mean.
Sadly, though, just as last year, there was no friendly way to get access to ALL of the session’s videos in batch (alas RSS) - and no the RSS feed from the sessions page doesn’t give access to ALL of videos – or if on the other hand, a way existed where there were an RSS feed who aggregated all, iTunes (my preferred way to Podcasts) only displays the latest 50 episodes of a show, which is nowhere convenient either.
So thanks to Mike Swanson who posted a friendly list to click and choose videos from the sessions, a few minutes with Excel, LINQ and C#. Here I give you the RSS feeds (divided in chunks of 50 items per feed) to the MIX videos that have been made available until now.
So, go get your preferred Podcast software to point to this babies, lay back, relax and wait for your videos to download.
Now, who said there were not a convenient way to get the Mix conference with you on your device?!
Enjoy!
Zune*:
RSS for the first 50, second 50, and the remained 19.
iPod*:
RSS for the first 50 and the rest 11.
*Disclaimer: As per Mike’s post there are 119 videos available in Zune format and 61 in MP4 format, so be aware of that when looking for your session of choice and you don’t find it, it might be because it’s not in the list yet. Cheers!
Just as previous years, Microsoft did a terrific job at making most of this year’s sessions available on the web within the first 24 hours from them happening, and for people like me, between that and twitter, it felt almost like been there in person – of course, if staying late at night in the Lab with no beers IS like been there - but you get what I mean.
Sadly, though, just as last year, there was no friendly way to get access to ALL of the session’s videos in batch (alas RSS) - and no the RSS feed from the sessions page doesn’t give access to ALL of videos – or if on the other hand, a way existed where there were an RSS feed who aggregated all, iTunes (my preferred way to Podcasts) only displays the latest 50 episodes of a show, which is nowhere convenient either.
So thanks to Mike Swanson who posted a friendly list to click and choose videos from the sessions, a few minutes with Excel, LINQ and C#. Here I give you the RSS feeds (divided in chunks of 50 items per feed) to the MIX videos that have been made available until now.
So, go get your preferred Podcast software to point to this babies, lay back, relax and wait for your videos to download.
Now, who said there were not a convenient way to get the Mix conference with you on your device?!
Enjoy!
Zune*:
RSS for the first 50, second 50, and the remained 19.
iPod*:
RSS for the first 50 and the rest 11.
*Disclaimer: As per Mike’s post there are 119 videos available in Zune format and 61 in MP4 format, so be aware of that when looking for your session of choice and you don’t find it, it might be because it’s not in the list yet. Cheers!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
#MIX09 and #NotAtMIX09
In just a couple of hours the Venetian Hotel in Vegas will give place to one of the coolest conferences there are for Web Developers and Web Designers a like.
Microsoft MIX is one of my favorites conferences to attend, not only because of the introduction to new stuff from Microsoft for the Web, but because the variety of minds that you get access to. From Interactive Designers to Hackers, Creatives, Futurisst… to even artists of the napkin drawing.
Mix is a great way to inspire yourself, and different from Adobe Max, Mix goes farther than just been a tech showcase of Microsoft technology. It’s a vehicle to the next generation experiences… it’s a way to get to know new cool people. Oh! and don’t forget it’s VEGAS, baby!
This year will be no different and the list of speakers is amazing, I am looking forward to Bill Buxton’s keynote just as well to see what’s in the stake for Microsoft this year relating to Web, Cloud and Silverlight.
Unfortunately this year I won’t be there in Vegas, I will be sleeping while most of you are enjoying the many talks you have on schedule and I will be catching up while you party… after all, not all is pink in the life of an student.
Fortunately, though, Microsoft will be making available most of the sessions on-line within the next 24 hours of their presentation, meaning for you and me not attending, or for those of you hangover, that it will not be lost… and we will enjoy it in some way or another.
Microsoft MIX is one of my favorites conferences to attend, not only because of the introduction to new stuff from Microsoft for the Web, but because the variety of minds that you get access to. From Interactive Designers to Hackers, Creatives, Futurisst… to even artists of the napkin drawing.
Mix is a great way to inspire yourself, and different from Adobe Max, Mix goes farther than just been a tech showcase of Microsoft technology. It’s a vehicle to the next generation experiences… it’s a way to get to know new cool people. Oh! and don’t forget it’s VEGAS, baby!
This year will be no different and the list of speakers is amazing, I am looking forward to Bill Buxton’s keynote just as well to see what’s in the stake for Microsoft this year relating to Web, Cloud and Silverlight.
Unfortunately this year I won’t be there in Vegas, I will be sleeping while most of you are enjoying the many talks you have on schedule and I will be catching up while you party… after all, not all is pink in the life of an student.
Fortunately, though, Microsoft will be making available most of the sessions on-line within the next 24 hours of their presentation, meaning for you and me not attending, or for those of you hangover, that it will not be lost… and we will enjoy it in some way or another.
So for all of you out there be happy, relax and enjoy the show that #mix09 and #notatmix09 is just about to start! As my body Mike Brown just twit:
Man...I feel like a parent watching his kids open their presents on Christmas hopefully #mix09 has some surprises in store for me tooOh and btw… if you didn’t saw my twit on Monday, here is my hacked approach to a homepage to #notatmix09… my tribute to all of us not attending this year’s conference. Cheers!
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