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Author: jonathanboutelle
Delhi Geek Dinner
On the heels of barcampdelhi, a geek dinner is being organized by Rakesh Argawal (CEO of Snapstream) and Gaurav Bhatnagar (from Tekriti) on March 13th. We’re meeting at the DLF Mega Mall food court in Gurgaon at 8:30pm. RSVP required (rakesh AT snapstream DOT com), and we’re going dutch. This should be a lot of fun!
Laszlo generating AJAX
Laszlo systems has always postitioned OpenLaszlo as a language that frees users from platform lockin. The markup happens to compile down to Flash, but the potential was always there to compile down to another run-time format, such as dot net. But only the potential. Until now. OpenLaszlo will soon support AJAX (a preview of this functionality is being demoed at etech as I write).
Peace breaks out between AJAX and Flash: Meet the FABridge
Adobe just announced the FLEX-AJAX bridge (FABridge), an open-source component that facilitates communication between AJAX and FLEX code. The meeting where it was announced showed amazing integration between AJAX applications built with Rails / prototype and individual screen components built with FLEX.
Update: here’s the blog entry with all the demos and details.
Video snippet of my barcamp delhi presentation
Saad documented barcampdelhi amazingly well. He not only shot some heautiful photographs, he also shot some video of my presentation on preloading data in AJAX. Here’s me talking about metaphors you can use to explain preloading, from an engineering and design perspective.
Many thanks to Adobe for hosting barcamp delhi
Adobe India was amazingly generous in hosting BarCamp Delhi. They not only provided food, wifi, and two fully loaded conference rooms (with projectors, lcd screens, wireless mics, etc). They also turned off their security system, letting 100 people roam around their offices unescorted and without identification. This made it possible for us to use all their conference rooms, so that everybody who wanted to present would have an opportunity. Special thanks to Ajay Pande for making it all happen, Neeraj Chawla for setting up the facilities, and Dheeraj Muku for making sure we had the IT infrastructure we needed.
Thanks guys! You rock.
The real bar camp delhi
Putting the bar in bar camp delhi.
Live FLEX hacking by Manish Jethani
Manish Jethani stepped up to the stage at barcamp Delhi yesterday, opened up vi, and started hacking in FLEX. Within a period of about 15 minutes, he built a FLEX application that consumed the rss feeds from youtube, displayed the top videos in a data grid, and allowed you to play the videos. Check it out! An impressive testiment to the power of FLEX as a multimedia platform, all done with completely FREE (as in beer) technology. Really cool stuff.
Rakesh Agrawal demoing beyondtv
Rakesh Agrawal (CEO of SnapStream Media) is talking now.
His blog is lambipooch.blogspot.com (ambipooch means longtail in Hindi!).
He’s demonstrating the firefly mini, a new remote for SnapStream.
He also did a demo of the beyondtv user interface. Very slick stuff, implemented directly in Direct3D.
Here’s a snapshot of him trying to get his laptop hooked up for power (the plug kept falling out, but we managed to rig it so that it would stay in place).
Knowledge Management 2.0
Manish Dhingra (from Tekriti) is talking about structured blogging: microcontent publishing / aggregation. In particular, he’s talking about the structured blogging plugins that they wrote for MovableType / WordPress.
He gives great examples of how structured blogging could be used in a knowledge work context to capture important pieces of information. Things like bugs, troubleshooting tips, etc. The best example he gave of this is the “I’m stuck” phenomenon. When you’re coding, you often are stuck on something simple. Getting unstuck fast has high ROI, and you’re probably stuck at a place where most people get stuck.
The key payoff of structured blogging in an enterprise context is easing “responsibility transition”. If your employees put their knowledge into a system, it’ll be easy to recover if they are sick / leave.
I asked about how to solve the motivation problem: he said basically that you have to reward employees for contributing knowledge to the system.
These modules seem like they might be really useful for a whole host of situations where you want to build an interface to capture structured data of some kind.
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