RIA Weeky #41 – Portals and RIAs, Flex and Open Source, Get a Free Poken

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This week, Coté joined by special guest host James Ward while Ryan continues week two of his Japan journey.

Here are the topics we cover:

• Update on James and Bruce Eckel’s book First Steps in Flex
• Omaha Steaks – James lives in Omaha.
• Portals and RIAs; Anvil.
• What kinds of applications are portals being used for?
• Do we even call these things portal? Lotus Expeditor seems like an interesting examples of Portal-meets-RIA.
• “The case against Web apps.”
• Titanium number: “We’ve had over 5k developers give it a try and well over 20K+ downloads in the past 30 days.” -Jeff Haynie
• Revisiting why desktop integration is nice.
• GMail has offline support.
• Offloading performance intensive stuff to the cloud for desktop RIAs, like searching Coté’s email.
• TweetDeck gets funding
• Flex in new versions of enterprise software: WorkDay, ZipTie, others.
• The Flex SDK open source hoopla (here & here), and, see the recorded webinar on the topic.
• The Poken Give-away. Free Pokens for lucky listeners! (Listen in on how to try and get a free Poken.)

Sponsorship

This Episode is Sponsored by Adobe:

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Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as are Microsoft, Appcelerator, and IBM.