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Ryan Stewart holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is now a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst. After graduating from Penn, he spent two years developing applications for the Wharton School and pushing the idea of the web as a platform for learning. Ryan...- more about Ryan Stewart »
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- Silverlight release candidate now available
- Tim Sneath posted on his blog that the RC1 build for Silverlight 1.0 is available for download. Version 1.0 of Silverlight is targeted at web video and not as much at developers like the 1.1 release will be. Andy Plesser from Beet.TV has some more info and a chat with...
- Tags: Silverlight, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- IronRuby pre-alpha release available
- John Lam and Scott Guthrie both have posts about the pre-alpha availability of IronRuby, a Ruby implementation for .NET. IronRuby is one of four languages that will be supported in .NET via the Dynamic Language Runtime DLR that Microsoft announced at MIX. The others are IronPython, JavaScript and Dynamic VB....
- Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Microsoft, .NET 3.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex
- I just caught that Bubblemark, which is quickly becoming the RIA benchmark source added a test for JavaFX. So now with the Bubblemark tool you have the source and the applications to compare a variety of RIA technologies. According to the post, JavaFX is really slow, but it's still in...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, Flex, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Silverlight Release Candidate coming soon
- On Friday Tim Sneath, an evangelist for Microsoft blogged about preparing for the release of Silverlight 1.0. It looks like we'll have a release candidate in the next couple of weeks and then probably final version a couple of weeks after that. It will be very interesting to see how...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- LiveStation: A Joost killer in Silverlight clothing
- Microsoft is unveiling LiveStation which is an application that will enable live television on the desktop. The project uses Silverlight technology and has been touted as Microsoft's attempt at a "Joost killer". I think this is fairly old (the earliest reference I can find is 44 days ago on P2P...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Joost
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Does the Rich Internet Application "battle" hinge on rich media?
- Robert Scoble has his first article up for FastCompany and he talks about Rich Internet Applications. Specifically he talks about what Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun are doing to support these new kinds of applications. Robert comes at it from an interesting angle. He's a big video guy, so understandably he...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Microsoft, Flash, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Silverlight to run on Linux as early as this week
- According to a number of news sources, Novell is going to demonstrate Silverlight version 1.1 running on Linux this week at Microsoft's Mix07 event in Paris. The event takes place on the 21st and the technology will be demoed by Miguel de Icaza, the vice president of development for Novell...
- Tags: Silverlight, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Rich Internet Applications make big splash on PCWorld's top 25 sites to watch
- It looks like PCWorld thinks Rich Internet Applications RIAs are going to be a big thing to watch this year because their list of the Top 25 sites to watch has a few recognizable names. The first is Popfly, Microsoft's mashup creator that is targeted at geeks and average users...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Goowy, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Big Rich Media news for both Silverlight and Flash
- It's been a big week for news in the Rich Media space and both Flash and Silverlight have been able to make a splash. Rich Media is arguably one of the most important use cases for the major Rich Internet Application platforms. It drives penetration and the rise of YouTube...
- Tags: Brightcove, Flash, Rich Media, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- A YouTube Competitor in Silverlight and 1080p Flash Video
- Microsoft may be looking to create a competitor to YouTube that would support user uploaded content and 720p video. BigMouthMedia has some quotes from Tim Sneath, the group manager for WPF/Silverlight evangelism at Microsoft about their desire to deliver a new kind of experience for video-sharing.Rich media is getting a...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Demo of Silverlight on Linux and running outside the browser coming in June
- My parnter in crime here at ZDNet, Dana Gardner, has the scoop on news that the Mono Project will be releasing an alpha demonstration of Silverlight, Microsoft's browser Rich Internet Application technology, running on Linux. The demo, according to Miguel de Icaza, could actually have Silverlight running outside the browser...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Confusion, fear and doubt around Rich Internet Applications
- There is a post up over on Read/Write Web which aims to paint a picture of Rich Internet Applications and poses the question, RIA: What is it good for? Unfortunately I think they miss the mark a bit with both the definition of RIAs and the analysis behind the technologies....
- Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- To browser or not? It doesn't really matter
- Rich Internet Applications have gotten a lot of great attention recently. The technologies and acronyms are blending together in a seemingly endless soup of technobabble. Part of that comes with any new technology and in the hyper-attentive world of the web people are quick to make judgments and even quicker...
- Tags: Apollo, Experience, Flash, Flex, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- Changing the user expectation by freeing applications from the browser
- Disclosure: Last week I announced that I'm working for Adobe. While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I'll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn't...
- Tags: Silverlight, Flash, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Popfly - Mashup the web with Silverlight
- Disclosure: This morning I announced that I'm working for Adobe. While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I'll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn't...
- Tags: Silverlight, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Shantanu Narayen, Chief Operating Officer at Adobe on Apollo, Silverlight, and CS3
- Knowledge@Wharton just published a great interview with Shantanu Narayen, the Chief Operating Officer at Adobe. In the interview he touches on almost all aspects of Adobe's product line including Creative Suite 3, Flash, Flex, and Apollo. He also talks about some of the corporate culture at Adobe and how it...
- Tags: Flex, Flash, Apollo, Adobe, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Sun enters the Rich Internet Application world with JavaFX
- Infoworld is reporting that Sun will announce JavaFX on Tuesday which will be a response to the growing popularity of technologies like Ajax, Flash and Silverlight. The platform uses the Java runtime and a scripting language called JavaFX Script which is "focused on the content-authoring and content creation crowd....
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Flash, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Mono founder says Silverlight will come to Linux
- Martin LaMonica over at Cnet talked to Miguel de Icaza, a vice president at Novell and head of the Mono project about Silverlight on Linux. De Icazas response? Absolutely. I think it makes a lot of sense. As Martin noted, Mono developers could be big winners with the Dynamic...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Cynergy announces Silverlight application development
- Yesterday Cynergy, one of the top Flex development firms, announced that they will be jumping into Silverlight development. They are the first major RIA development firm I know of to publically put support behind Silverlight. A lot of the design agencies have been working with Silverlight for a...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Cynergy
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Where Microsoft benefits from the Rich Internet Application developer problem
- Rich Internet Application developer is kind of a loaded term. Youre not just writing code, you have to know how the interactions all fit together, and even if youre not creating design-side of the user interface, you often wear many hats as you build out the UI, wire the...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
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