Life around the RIA space and beyond

I know I've been out of public word for a bit of time lately - at least in the most extent use of the word (me blog) and have moved my frequency into the tiny world of 140 characters with my twitter voice as Samiq.

There are, though, a lot of great voices out there who have kept us informed and misinformed about what's been going on in the RIA world and surroundings in the time being - hence the necessity no to write and just go express my point of view in the comment spaces or around beers, whenever possible and whatever comes first.

Yet as direct results of these conversations, some people has asked me to come back to my blog and revive it a little bit - or revive it in it's full - bring that same voice I have had whenever there are beers, geeks and some good topic to convey, and make it public.

So here I'm bringing my word to the broad end of the world of bits with my Bits and adding a little flavor to the semantics of web - yes I know, a little cheesy but I have grown my opinion about it... so let's make it worth.

Summarizing a little bit and to create context to what's to come here is a couple of things that have happened in the past that will impact the way I behave in the future:

September 7th, 2007	Silverlight 1.0 gets released to web and with it a couple of applications I worked on made it to the official press release.
September 29th, 2007	Participate of Silverlight DevCamp Chicago with a session about Creating MVC-driven Applications using the Silverlight 1.0 bits.
October 1st-3rd, 2007	Max 07 happened and here I meet a lot of really cool guys from the Adobe community, although what made the trip worth was getting to know the Microsoft's UX Evangelists, lead by Chris Bernard.
November 2007 - January 2008	I work with a great team, on probably one of the most complex Silverlight 1.0 applications up today - yet it has not seen the ray of public light as of this writing.
February 18-20th, 2008	Along with my peers from LA, NY, Atlanta and Costa Rica, participate on a private Silverlight 1.0 & 2.0 training prepared by ourselves. Now call it knowledge sharing!
March 5-7th, 2008	Mix 08 happened and here I meet a lot of really cool people and had great conversations around the world of RIE - some of them I recorded in the form of video, yet to be published as a documentary. Got to see Ka, amazing show! Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 is released to web.
April 11th, 2008	I get a call
April 14th, 2008	I attend a meeting and get introduced to a cool project
April 15th, 2008	I go to dinner with probably 1 of the most brilliant minds in Costa Rica
April 18th, 2008	I quit Schematic as Software Architect and join Artinsoft as Technology Evangelist to its Research Division.
May 9th, 2008	I finish my work at Schematic, and with it I finish my pass with one of the greatest interactive agencies around the world.
May 19th, 2008	I start part time with Artinsoft and focus on the marketing strategy for Aggiorno Beta 2 with the team.
May 30th, 2008	Go on vacations
June 3rd, 2008	Aggiorno goes into Beta 2. New interim web site goes live.
June 9th, 2008	I start full time with Artinsoft and it's Aggiorno team.
June 12th, 2008	I fly to Seattle to join BarCamp Seattle and attend meetings in Redmond.
June 13th, 2008	Attend Thingamajiggr with Carlos, head of Artinsoft Research.
June 14th, 2008	Participate of BarCamp Seattle with two sessions: one on The Reality of SEO and Web Accesibility along with Chris Wilson from the IE8 team and Jermiah Andrick from the Live Search team; and the second one on a RIA Panel with Scott Barnes from the Silverlight team and Kurt Brockett, from Identity Mine.
June 16-20th, 2008	Tour Redmond Campus from building to building showing Aggiorno to different teams and getting lots of feedback and support.
June 18th, 2008	Visited Scott on his office and end up co-writing the first preview of a MVC framework for Silverlight 2.0. - those kind of things that happen just because, so don't ask.
June 23th, 2008	I fly back to Costa Rica and miss the first Costa Rican twitter get-together.
June 22nd, 2008	I start writing this while exploring ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 stuff for a freelance gig.

Ok, so now that you know where I've been during this time (at least the portions that are public), it's time to keep the fingers warm and shoot and connect directly to me head to start getting some word out of my thoughts, and make them happen!

So here it is guys! I am back baby!!

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Welcome to the Singularity

So it is public now, and hence I am allow to blog about it.

Singularity is here!

Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world, and you can be part of it.

This year, over 100 of the most influent minds on the web will be discussing and modeling what the future of the web will be like... of course after this year's MIX and MAX.

This conference is planned to take place in the cloud between October 24th and the 25th - so you won't have to go thru all the pains of booking flights, hotels, nor submitting expense reports, which makes it not only great, but greener.

The conference is being organized by multitasking Aral Balkan, which most of you people will know him for his work in the Flash Community, and his talking bunny.

The world as we know it is more interconnected now than ever before, twitter has become essential part of it and we even feel lonely when its service is down - well not everyone, but yes! there are people; and having a web conference on the web, and by the people from the web, will really set the roots for the kind of world we are all working to make reality.

Aral is still picking up on presenters, although there is already a list of really compelling people making in the elite. If you think you have what it gets to get people talking about the future or a service that can revolutionize the way we convey our life in the matrix, go ahead and mail them your idea - who knows you might end up being one of the stars on one of this year's best conference.

More info here.

Later.

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Where have I been? Part II

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!

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MAX 07 is just around the corner and getting better as we approach to it!

With more than 200 sessions already scheduled, Adobe MAX is getting ready to roll in Chicago later this year.

From September 30th to October 3rd people will get access to all new stuff Adobe has put and will be putting out for the development crowed, going from ColdFusion 8 and Dreameweaver to Flex 3 and AIR.

Accommodated with Inspirational talks from people like Jesse James Garret - also known for his Elements of User Experience book; and several startup companies that have relayed on Adobe's technology to deliver the best experience to its users; you will get access to people, ideas and knowledge that combined together might be the best thing that could happen to you this year.

With some new concepts being put in place for this year's event, Adobe strengths its position towards the community, adding to the great work that Mike Chambers and Ted Patrick have done as ambassadors of its technology providing access and buzz into AIR's and Flex bits than anyone I've seen before in similar grounds.

As time approaches to the D-day Adobe will keep announcing changes and great new stuff to the even, to keep updated put an eye their blog, here.

Cheers and hope I'll see you guys there!

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