Ribbit Developers typically create Silverlight applications in one of two ways. The first way is to use our Ribbit for Silverlight controls by adding them into Visual Studio. We have a tutorial of that here. Another way is to use our Ribbit for Silverlight controls in Microsoft's Expression Blend 3.
I recently met with some very interesting people and we all had an extended, engaged conversation about applied user experience. During our meeting, we broke out into different sub-groups, each sub-group engaged in a particular aspect of the larger user experience discussion.
My group's collective interest was in game theory / creative code applications / information and idea visualization / prototyping.
Hypermodernity is an academic term that basically means "so modern that it changes the way we look at everything else, both in the future and historical". This kind of seeing, arguably, is afforded to a few lucky folks per era.
First off, I am excited to be speaking at the first Flash On Tap in Boston. My session is called "Signal To Noise : Reach Out and Touch Someone" and is going to be a conversation about all the wonderful new ways we can interact with a computer, and thus each other. It comes from dissatisfaction with the status quo of Mouse and Keyboards.
Some of the Ribbit Team went to South By Southwest last week to spread the good word on how a utility should provide its services to an ever increasingly ROI-savvy world. We had great conversations on what the face of telephone service looks like. I had never been to SxSW before, and had no idea what to expect. It was amazing. Never have I been around such a huge group of people who care so much about interaction. So here is my quick recap: My close friends at OrdinaryKids were nominated for an interactive award.
Brendan Lee, Ribbit's Flash Platform specialist, is also an incredible designer. I had a chance to chat with Brendan about his amazing design, which will be featured on an extremely limited run of t-shirts for this year's SxSw.
Always a fan of legitimate tech nomenclature, and having just watched this interesting You Tube about "Web Hooks" by Jeff Lindsay, I am really compelled to A. pass the good word on here and B. do a little pontification of the impact of what was was said.
The short of why I am bringing it up here is that his proposition implies a fundamental change in how API's will be consumed along with a kind of inversion of control over what the provided service contextually does.
Short Blog this week, RDP is working on an extra secret awesome project for everyone in the developer community to see. We will show it off next week. In the mean time, here is a great article of little things that we should all ( ahem, me ) strive to remember to do while we code, wrapped in a digestible, approachable format : http://tinyurl.com/bkobuk - via SeanThe[Flex/Flash]Guy's twitter : http://twitter.com/seantheflexguy
Well, it won't just be Flex, in fact, it should probably be called " CS4 and the City" but that doesn't have the same ring to it. Oh well. This week Chuck Freedman and I will be attending the Adobe CS4 release tour starting out in the New York City to show folks what Ribbit is all about. We have so much cool stuff to talk about. We have the contest, new features that are being implemented in the API, awesome T-Shirts, sample applications, just to name a few. We will be meeting up with some really nice folks while we are out there, too.
We are inundated with all the cool apps you all have submitted for the first check point. There is a bunch of really smart stuff here, in various stages of completion, and we will be responding to all of you shortly with praise or advice ( or both! ) and then passing the entries to the judges to be judged. I wanted to post up a list of Flex/Flash skinning and UI resources for you all, just to check out as you move into phase 2 of your application development. Some of you might be saying " Bah, I can't take the time to skin this, the default flex skin is OK and my functionality is awesome".
