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Rich Internet Applications

December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Inspiration, Smart clients

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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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, [...]

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Silverlight 3

July 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Development Toolbox, Smart clients, Technology

Today Silverlight 3 officially launched; so, I decided to cut-over to v3 from v2. Here’s what worked for me:

Ensure that all browsers are closed before proceeding.
Open the Control Panel to begin uninstalling older Silverlight 2-related software.
Select “Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – ENU” and uninstall the older IDE integration.
Select “Microsoft Silverlight 2 [...]

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Acropolis

June 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Smart clients

I’ve been patiently waiting to blog about this for some time. Now that Microsoft has finally gone public with this during this week’s TechEd…
Acropolis’s vision is to revolutionize the way that organizations define, develop, configure, deploy and manage client solutions. Clearly, this is a broad vision, and it will be realized over a set of releases. [...]

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Published…finally

September 17th, 2006 · No Comments · Smart clients

It’s good to finally see “Smart Clients: Essential Requirements and Candidate Services” published on MSDN.
This article was something I helped craft when the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board was active. As the article states, MAAB has been retired and many, if not all, MAAB members are now Solution Architect MVPs.
One important name not listed in the [...]

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