Yesterday there were a couple of important posts that have reignited the fire under the HTML5 vs Flash debate. The first was Thoughts On Flash from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The second was the riposte from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, ...Read More
Month: April 2010
EEK! Three Weeks to SPA2010
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 ...Read More
New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 2)
In the first part of this blog I covered some of the new features in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 as described in a talk by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets. This part will focus ...Read More
Kanban exposes documentation bottlenecks
Back in November I blogged about our company trialing Kanban, “Let’s all jump on the Kanban” which we have now extended to our Documentation Team – something described by David Joyce as BBC Kanban Flu. We ...Read More
Comet Servers for a Single-Dealer Platform (SDP)
There is a lot more to a Single-Dealer Platform than just a Comet Server, but it is still a key component and often one of the components bought in rather than developed in house. At Caplin we have dedicated much ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25
RT @martintyler: Great presentation on HTML 5, using HTML 5 - http://bit.ly/cySfo3 #html5 #Good morning! Platformability's latest, by Mike Poston: Silverlight 4 - Is it what banks want? Very thorough review: ...Read More
New Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 1)
Last week I attended a talk at Skills Matter by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets in which he gave us a whirlwind tour of some of the new features available in the latest version of Flex and its ecosystem. ...Read More
Silverlight 4 – Is it what banks want?
Where is Microsoft going with Silverlight? There is no ambiguity in Microsoft’s intentions to contend with AJAX and Adobe Flash in the RIA space; Friday's Silverlight 4 release includes me-too features such as enhanced video streaming capabilities aimed at internet broadcasters, ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18
RT @patrickmyles: Some interesting food for thought on Acceptance Testing from GOOSGaggle: http://bit.ly/aqYpsv #Using Fiddler to help develop cross domain capable JavaScript web applications by @leggetter: http://bit.ly/OgvD5 ...Read More
Evolution of Comet at Caplin
I have been blogging on CometDaily since before we started Platformability so thought I would take a look back and see if there was anything there that might be of interest to our Platformability audience. Early on ...Read More