{"id":3119,"date":"2009-08-21T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/08\/21\/riaweekly059\/"},"modified":"2009-08-21T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:18:20","slug":"riaweekly059","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/08\/21\/riaweekly059\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Downey&#039;s RIA Field Notes &#8211; RIA Weekly #59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/3598994748\/\" title=\"Nara Resoirt by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3299\/3598994748_afe0ebb27c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Nara Resoirt\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/riaweekly059.mp3\">download this episode directly directly<\/a> and it&#8217;ll also show up in <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/riaweekly\">the RIA Weekly feed<\/a> for iTunes and other podcatchers. Or, just use the controls below to listen to it right here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"embed\">\n<p>This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/\">Ryan<\/a> and I are joined by (hopefully soon to be come regular) guest co-host <a href=\"http:\/\/madowney.com\/blog\/\">Mike Downey<\/a>, 3 weeks into <a href=\"http:\/\/madowney.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/i-joined-microsoft\/\">his new job as a Silverlight Evangelist<\/a> and with a wicked mic. We open up talking about the RIA usage Mike saw in the field during 6 months as an independent consultant, and then go over some of the highlights from the RIA world since last we talked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What has Mike been seeing in the field? More emphasis on UX for behind-the-firewall applications.<\/li>\n<li>I also ask Mike what kind of software development process he saw these folks using.<\/li>\n<li>Both Ryan and I circle around the question of &#8220;selling UX&#8221; in corporations, asking around that topic several times. Mike has several interesting observations from the field that he shares.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/team.silverlight.net\/announcements\/sunday-night-football-powered-by-silverlight\/\">NBC football in 720p HD<\/a> via Silverlight. Mike tells us what functionality will be in there: very DVR-centric.<\/li>\n<li>SXSW panel proposals &#8211; Ryan has an <a href=\"http:\/\/panelpicker.sxsw.com\/ideas\/view\/3775?return=\/ideas\/index\/interactive\/q:flater\">interesting one on &#8220;beyond mice and keyboards,&#8221;<\/a> Cot\u00e9 has <a href=\"http:\/\/panelpicker.sxsw.com\/ideas\/view\/4099?return=%2Fideas%2Findex%2F4%2Fq%3ARedMonk\">a panel on HTML5<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/2009\/08\/adobe-sxsw-sessions\/\">Ryan rounds up other interesting looking ones<\/a>. It&#8217;s a lot of help if you got vote for and\/or leave comments on these: then they might get picked!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seadragon.com\/\">Seadragon.com<\/a> &#8211; Deep Zoom on your own. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/seadragon.com\/view\/7fl\">a door at a Chiang Mai temple<\/a> &#8211; not a mega-high resolution photo (2048 x 3072, 6.3 megapixels), but fun nonetheless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/14\/technology\/internet\/14browser.html?_r=1\">RockMelt browser<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockmelt.com\/\">stealthy startup<\/a> working on a new &#8220;browser.&#8221; Is this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/rockmelt_netscapes_andreesen_backing_stealth_facebook_browser.php\">a Facebook browser<\/a>, or a sort of Compuserve\/AOL walled-web thing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Adobe and Microsoft are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can download this episode directly directly and it&#8217;ll also show up in the RIA Weekly feed for iTunes and other podcatchers. Or, just use the controls below to listen to it right here: This week, Ryan and I are joined by (hopefully soon to be come regular) guest co-host Mike Downey, 3 weeks into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-software","category-ria","category-ria-weekly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}