Welcome!

ColdFusion Authors: Greg Ness, Liz McMillan, Pat Romanski, Andreas Grabner, David Strom

Related Topics: AJAX & REA

AJAX & REA: Article

AJAXWorld Report: Flex and Flash Are Starting to be Talked About a Lot More

This year's AJAXWorld was a great success. Seemed like a lot of people there, the rooms were packed.
By Andre Charland
Article Rating:
March 30, 2008 07:15 AM EDT
Reads:
 7,572
André Charland's Blog

This year's AJAXWorld was a great success. Seemed like a lot of people there, the rooms were packed. Many sessions were standing room only if you could get in. The folks who were there seemed very keen and were lining up early to register and to get into the rooms. 

I  noticed that Flex and Flash are starting to be talked about a lot more. I attended one session on Flex and .NET which was interesting, it touched on a wide range of topics and technologies including WebOrb which was interesting, unfortunately it wasn't that detailed in any one specific area. On the Flash side of the house there was a presentation on using a single pixel Flash movie (.swf) to do things like offline storage, push (using sockets) and file uploading, which is great because I love combining technologies like. Use the best tool for the job!

Although I didn't attend a specific session on performance, that was what I talked with most people about. It seems a lot of big industrial weight development teams are moving or considering moving to Ajax and are very concerned about performance. It seems like AJAX adoption is moving past the early adopter crowd and into masses so tooling, performance, framework selection and best practices are being sought more than ever.

I gave a talk on using AJAX development in Dreamweaver. I gave an overview of the current features in Dreamweaver for AJAX developers and which AJAX toolkits were included. I showed a couple code samples of using Spry and Nitobi Dreamweaver extensions. I think a lot of the audience were interested in figuring out how they could get developers and designers working together more effectively.

Published March 30, 2008 – Reads 7,572
Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

More Stories By Andre Charland

Andre Charland is co-founder, president and CEO of Nitobi. He has been involved in Internet software development for the past eight years and has successfully executed over 100 development projects. Aside from the entrepreneurial pursuit of leading and growing an AJAX component vendor company, Charland studies and evangelizes on topics related to usability, user experience and product management. He is co-author of "Enterprise AJAX" for Prentice Hall, often speaks on AJAX and web usability, and blogs at http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre.

Comments (0)

Share your thoughts on this story.

Add your comment
You must be signed in to add a comment. Sign-in | Register

In accordance with our Comment Policy, we encourage comments that are on topic, relevant and to-the-point. We will remove comments that include profanity, personal attacks, racial slurs, threats of violence, or other inappropriate material that violates our Terms and Conditions, and will block users who make repeated violations. We ask all readers to expect diversity of opinion and to treat one another with dignity and respect.