July 25th, 2007
OSCON and rich internet applications
I just flew into Portland for OSCON and in looking over the session list it looks like it’s going to be a pretty good conference for rich internet applications. Adobe doesn’t have a booth, but James Ward and I are both going to be around and we’re hoping to hold a Birds of a Feather session about Adobe’s various open source initiatives. Between open sourcing Flex and the ActionScript Virtual Machine as the Tamarin Project to our use of Webkit in Adobe AIR, we’ve got a lot to talk about so once I have the date nailed down, I’ll let you know.
But there are a few other sessions that caught my eye and wanted to highlight for those RIA enthusiasts who are going to the conference this week:
- The Future of Rich Internet Applications with PHP - Looks like a good session for anyone evaluating backend technologies for their RIA solution.
- Cross Platform .NET with Mono - Not sure if they’re going to cover Moonlight (the Mono implementation of Silverlight) in this, but it’s worth checking out.
- Mozilla Firefox and the Internet as an Open Platform - A Good session for anyone in the RIA world to check out because Firefox is becoming a platform itself and the web is what we’re building all of this on.
- Hacking with (and on) Gears - Google Gears info
- Programming with SQLite - Since both Adobe AIR and Google Gears use SQLite, this is a great session to take in.
- RIA Platforms and Open Source - This is James’ panel, so it should be a worthwhile discussion.
- Open Source and Dynamic Languages on .NET - John Lam is giving this session and he’ll cover a lot of the stuff in the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).
Should be a good conference and I’m looking forward to chatting with people about open source and where Adobe fits. I’m excited about what we’re doing in the OSS community and so hopefully I can help spread that message.
Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst, recently joined Adobe's Platform Team as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist. full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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