During the MAX 2009 conference, Duane Nickull was interviewed by DZone on the subject of RIA architectures. As an architect, I appreciated Duane’s comments about the responsibility of architects, versus developers, where RIAs are concerned (e.g. focusing on and valuing interaction design and user experience, distilling key business requirements by working closely with those the [...]
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Submitting VMware Workstation 7 to install
November 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology
Roughly a month ago, VMware released a new major version of its Workstation (and Fusion) software (i.e. 7.0 (and 3.0, respectively)). So, it seemed like a good time to upgrade from version 6.5.3. Past protocol suggested the following approach: uninstall old, reboot, and install new. Unfortunately, and unexpectedly, this approach failed to result in an [...]
Tags:installation·troubleshooting·VMware·VMware Workstation 7
PDF from Confluence
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Content management, Development Toolbox
Atlassian’s Confluence software offers a decent collaboration canvas in the form of an enterprise wiki. For example, Confluence can support the practice of “living and active” specifications (instead of, for example, obsolete-once-authored-in-Word specs). Often, though, it’s good to have a more self-contained snapshot in hand (e.g. increase traceability from one review-based state to another, support [...]
Tags:Confluence·export·PDF
More complete PDC09 downloader-renamer
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology
First of all, I want to thank Mike Swanson (@anyware) for his original work (e.g. for MIX09 and also for PDC09). Good stuff.
That being said, I noticed that there were posted sessions missing–six altogether–from the 11/19/2009-dated batch files here; so, I thought I’d post my “fix”:
PDC09DownloaderCSR.zip
PDC09RenamerCSR.zip
It may be worth noting that my rename “style” includes [...]
Tags:automation·downloader·Microsoft·PDC·PDC09·renamer·sessions
Adobe LiveCycle ES2
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Inspiration, Smart clients, Technology
If you’re at the Adobe MAX conference this week, then you already know: Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 has launched.
And judging by the attendance at the pre-conference session on LiveCycle, there’s significant interest in building user-centric applications in the enterprise–exactly what LiveCycle ES2 is designed to unleash!
As you will see on the main LiveCycle site, [...]
