The video of the London Ajax Comet panel has now been posted along with some slides.. also Dylan has posted some photos he got an audience member to take too.
Here are the links:
Video/Slides: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/comet-panel/zx-486
Photos: http://flickriver.com/photos/dylans/sets/72157624493006656/
Now you can see what a bunch of Comet vendor geeks look like!
Thanks again to Dylan and Skillsmatter for hosting the event.
An interesting event last night that I mentioned recently.
Thanks to Dylan for organising the event, and thanks to the other panelists for taking part. It was good to finally meet Alessandro from Lightstreamer, and its good to see the various open projects talking about their technology too. A couple of guys from Nirvana were in the audience and we had a good chat down the pub afterwards.
Everyone on the panel seemed to have similar views on WebSocket, although some have implemented it and some have not.
I’ll post a link to the video and slides when they are available soon.
Martin Tyler has been a Chief Software Architect at Caplin since 1997. Next week Martin sits on the panel of Skillmatter’s London AJAX User Group Comet Panel (July 13th). Click here to register for the event.
Q: Firstly, the important stuff: iPhone, Blackberry or Android?
MT: iPhone 4 for me
Q: Biggest contribution to Caplin?
MT: I’ve had a hand in most things, but writing Liberator is probably the biggest single achievement.
Q: Favourite blog post you’ve written on Platformability?
MT: I’m not sure about ‘favourite’ but Why we don’t need HTML5 WebSocket gets a lot of hits.
Q: You’ve been blogging about Comet for some time. What has changed most about Comet since you first started blogging about it, and how does it better support Caplin’s core technology?
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I missed the start of SPA2010 on Sunday, I knew it was going to be a heavy week and I needed some time for the family 
Sorry Phil/Adam.
Monday started with the opening plenary, I think it was good, I’m sure it was… it’s just that I was a bit distracted thinking about our impending workshop – would it work out?
I was at the Software Practice Advancement conference (SPA) last week, here are a few of my thoughts from some of the sessions I attended:
The Real-time Web
Phil and I presented Kwwika in the context of realtime web in general, and then walked people through subscribing and publishing data to the service. The feedback was very positive – people said that the exercises were pitched just right, and one attendee even said that he’d like to run colleagues at his work through the same set of exercises. One of the attendees was from pusherapp, a company doing something quite similar.
Get Clojure!
An overview of the Clojure programming language, which is essentially LISP for the JVM. An interesting language, together with its own style of doing things. Its templating abilities make it very powerful for developing internal domain specific languages.
A big thank you to all the attendees of our Persona Driven Development (PDD) workshop at SPA 2010. This was the first ever external lead session of ours and what a great conference for Duncan and I to debut at. We thank you all for your energy in the session and we were delighted with your positive feedback, we will certainly be coming back!
A Narrative Journey Map (NJM) that one of the groups produced (thanks Rachel Davies) along with some of our own photos:
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So… We’re all set for our ‘Persona Driven Development Workshop’ at SPA2010, right?
OK – well… nearly. Sarah has done a really nice presentation. But… the workshop materials are not entirely done done.
I’m not panicking too much yet – after all there are four three weeks to go!
SPA 2010 (Software Practice Advancement 2010)16-19 May
The British Computer Society, Covent Garden London
Microsoft’s MIX10 Developers and Designers conference is currently running in Las Vegas. Sadly I’m not attending as it sounds like lots of fun…
There has been lots of buzz and some really interesting bits coming out so far including Silverlight 4 RC, Internet Explorer 9 preview (with HTML5 and CSS3 etc.), Windows phone information, etc.
Scott Hanselman has posted a great roundup of the announcements and keynotes.
The SPA conference is always a great event with lots of interesting sessions and a good mix of people in attendence.
Following a succesful session that Andrew MacLeod and I ran at last year’s conference (building an automated browser testing framework using Selenium), a couple of proposals have been put in by Caplin’s staff for next year’s conference in May:
Sarah Lawfull and Duncan Brown have proposed “Persona-driven development – can it work for you?”.
Adam Iley and Phil Leggetter have proposed “Comet, Twitter and the Real-Time Web”
Fingers crossed they’ll be accepted – if they are we’ll post some more info on the contents nearer the time.
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