{"id":3622,"date":"2009-12-04T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/12\/04\/riaweekly067\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:07:28","slug":"riaweekly067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/12\/04\/riaweekly067\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight 4, Azure, Gears &quot;death,&quot; and Flash SaaS SDKs &#8211; RIA Weekly #67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/4145210066\/\" title=\"Hip-hop karaoke room at the Highball by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2751\/4145210066_ceffd08eaa.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hip-hop karaoke room at the Highball\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, it&#8217;s Silverlight 4, Azure, Google Gears &#8220;death,&#8221; Flash with Salesforce and RIM, and more. The full roster of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/\">Cot\u00e9<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/\">Ryan Stewart<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/richplatform.com\/\">Mike Downey<\/a> are back for this one:<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/riaweekly067.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>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaweekly.com\/2009\/12\/04\/riaweekly067\/\">the full transcript over on the RIAWeekly.com post of this episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Show notes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/richplatform.com\/\">RichPlatform.com<\/a> &#8211; Downey&#8217;s new blog<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft PDC 2009 &#8211; Azure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1967-silverlight-4-ticks-all-the-boxes-questions-remain.html\">Silverlight 4<\/a>, a little bit of SharePoint.<\/li>\n<li>We then get into what Azure brings for RIA developers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/silverlight.net\/getstarted\/silverlight-4-beta\/\">Silverlight 4<\/a> &#8211; much more &#8220;plumbing,&#8221; etc. Mike talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/MEF\">Managed Extensibility Framework<\/a> for doing components in Silverlight. And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=4627\">the Silverlight and WPF merging reporting from Mary Jo Foley<\/a> I mention.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1975-com-automation-in-silverlight-4-is-not-an-edge-case.html\">COM in Silverlight 4<\/a> &#8211; for Office integration, also looking for how to do it on the Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Silverlight muti-touch app &#8211; Ryan got <a href=\"http:\/\/h10010.www1.hp.com\/wwpc\/us\/en\/sm\/WF05a\/382087-382087-64283-3181050-3181048-4031739.html\">an HP Compaq L2105 multi-touch screen<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/02\/ciplex-multi-touch-website-silverlight\/\">TechCrunch&#8217;s first multi-touch application post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also, Bing&#8217;s new, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/maps\/\">Silverlight-based maps<\/a>. Also, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/02\/google-microsoft-silverlight\/\">MG Siegler&#8217;s (TechCrunch) more cautionary take on this vs. HTML 5<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/almaer.com\/blog\/gears-has-been-dead-for-a-long-time-its-ok-but-a-shame\">Google Gears shut-down<\/a> &#8211; was used for local storage, multi-threaded apps; obviously means Google thinks HTML 5 momentum looks good.<\/li>\n<li>Then we call back to SharePoint at PDC &#8211; SharePoint 2010, a lot of Silverlight integration &#8211; &#8220;web parts,&#8221; which are widgets for SharePoint.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/team.silverlight.net\/announcement\/announcing-the-new-microsoft-sdk-for-facebook-platform\/\">Silverlight Facebook SDK<\/a> &#8211; we go off on a small tangent about Facebook being the new Aol in the making<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1908-salesforce-com-partners-with-adobe-for-flash-builder-for-force-com.html\">Flash and Salesforce<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/2009\/11\/adobe-and-rim-collaborating-on-tool-support-for-blackberry-devices\/\">Ryan&#8217;s post<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/200911\/110909RIMCS5.html\">Flash and RIM<\/a> &#8211; Adobe support for doing HTML stuff on Blackberry.<\/li>\n<li>Betas for AIR 2 and Flash 10.1, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/2009\/11\/air-2-and-flash-player-10-1-betas-now-available\/\">Ryan&#8217;s post<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We wrap up by talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/2009\/11\/html5-cant-exist-without-the-flash-platform\/\">Ryan&#8217;s recent HTML 5 post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A little more<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some items we didn&#8217;t get to in this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesward.com\/2009\/12\/01\/the-best-and-worst-practices-building-rias\/\">Best &amp; Worst practices for RIAs<\/a>, a presentation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideria.com\/2009\/11\/updated-flex-builder-for-linux.html\">There&#8217;s an updated Flex Builder 3 for Linux<\/a>, that <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/flex\/flexbuilder_linux\/releasenotes.html\">doesn&#8217;t expire<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/caas.tmcnet.com\/topics\/caas-saas\/articles\/69337-wavemaker-60-cloud-development-platform-features-automated-multi.htm\">WaveMaker 6.0 Cloud Development Platform Features Automated Multi-Tenant Support<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/team.silverlight.net\/announcement\/the-xxi-olympic-winter-games-on-nbcolympics-com-brought-to-you-in-full-hd-with-silverlight-and-smooth-streaming\/\">Winter Olympics via Silverlight<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrianparr.com\/?p=115\">Upcoming RIA related conferences<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Microsoft and Adobe are clients. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a> for other clients mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, it&#8217;s Silverlight 4, Azure, Google Gears &#8220;death,&#8221; Flash with Salesforce and RIM, and more. 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