RIA Weekly #37 – Collaboration, not Workflow

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This week Ryan and I cover the RIA news items of the week and discuss the discussion around the word “workflow” in the phrase “design/developer workflow.” Before getting to the second item, we cover and comment on the news:

• A short review of Bruce Eckel‘s and James Ward‘s First Steps in Flex (which I think we incorrectly referred to as Thinking in Flex).
• AIR 1.5 was released for Linux, but there’s an annoying hiccup.
• Seadragon Mobile – use Deep Zoom on your iPhone. Coté thinks it’s pretty cool: check out the screenshots.
• Ryan asks if there’s been any JavaFX news since it’s been out, which there hasn’t been, but putting on the apologist hat, hey, it’s the holidays. He also points out a nice piece briefly summarizing the RIA landscape at the moment from Redmond Developer.

Finally, we end up talking about a point James Governor has been making: that word “workflow” is pretty terrible, it’s more like “designer/developer collaboration.” This leads to a discussion of user experience in RIAs (or the lack thereof).

Happy holidays!

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Disclosure: Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun are clients. Adobe sponsored this podcast. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.