The "Internet is written in ink". This is one of the great lines in "The Social Network", a movie I highly recommend. As someone said at the Golden Globes, Arron Sorkin made people typing at computers look exciting. In the spirit of that, I realize that going months between posting on a blog is a sure fire way to ensure no one will read your blog when you DO have something to say, and that the Tom Jordahl "internet brand" will not be maintained at its high level. :-)
My excuse this time, as it has been before, is I have been heads down making the software. This time the next major release of LiveCycle Data Services, what we will probably call version 4.5. Why 4.5 when the last version was 3.1? Well, because we like confusing folks but mostly because we want to align our version number with Flex in the same way that we align the BlazeDS version numbers already. So before we had Flex 4/BlazeDS 4.0/ LCDS 3.1. Some time this year all the numbers will be the same. So that will be less confusing we hope.
We have some good stuff coming this year, we will continue to build on the Fiber Data Model development paradigm which makes is super simple and fast to define your data model and deploy it to LCDS to get Data Management functionality using Hibernate/JPA persistence without writing any code. We are expanding the Java and ActionScript code we generate from the data model to give you more control and customization abilities in your applications. We are expanding the client options to include Java, HTML5 and various mobile platforms. We have some amazing integration with SAP services. And I have been working on some real nice enhancements to Flash Remoting to make it simpler to develop applications that use the various features of Data Management without having to change from the RPC-style of thinking.
I hope to be able to post more about these great new features in 2011.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Blog spam and MAX 2010
I am getting tired of deleting spam comments on the previous blog entry, so I thought I would add a new one just for variety. I wonder why the particular spammer is able to get around the Google captcha that is required to post, but every week or two they post to the last entry in my blog.
In other news, It has been confirmed that I will be speaking at MAX 2010. The tentative plan is for me to run a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session on the new Offline features in LiveCycle Data Services 3.1 for Flex and AIR. I have never done a BYOL, just a hands-on lab session, so this is going to be a "learning experience". This is a really a neat and powerful feature, so I hope folks will come away with a good idea of how they can use this feature in AIR apps that can go offline.
See you there!
In other news, It has been confirmed that I will be speaking at MAX 2010. The tentative plan is for me to run a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session on the new Offline features in LiveCycle Data Services 3.1 for Flex and AIR. I have never done a BYOL, just a hands-on lab session, so this is going to be a "learning experience". This is a really a neat and powerful feature, so I hope folks will come away with a good idea of how they can use this feature in AIR apps that can go offline.
See you there!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Photoshop 20th Anniversary Film "Startup Memories"
This is worth the 18 minutes to watch:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-20th-anniversary/startup-memories/
One thing that stood out for me was near the end when one of the creators talked about hearing from people who said "Because of PhotoShop, I have a career". This is one of the most important reasons why I spent over 10 years of my profession life working on ColdFusion - the fact that what I helped create had thousands of users who made their living using it. That what I did for my job made a major impact on others. There really isn't anything more that a software developer can ask for. At least this software developer.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-20th-anniversary/startup-memories/
In this 18-minute documentary, produced by the Adobe TV and Adobe Content Strategy & Service teams, John Knoll, Thomas Knoll, Russell Brown, and Steve Guttman tell the story of how an amazing coincidence of circumstances that came together at just the right time spawned a cultural paradigm shift unparalleled in our lifetime.
One thing that stood out for me was near the end when one of the creators talked about hearing from people who said "Because of PhotoShop, I have a career". This is one of the most important reasons why I spent over 10 years of my profession life working on ColdFusion - the fact that what I helped create had thousands of users who made their living using it. That what I did for my job made a major impact on others. There really isn't anything more that a software developer can ask for. At least this software developer.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Contribute CS4 does blogs
I recently had to re-image my laptop (note to self: make sure disk de-fragmentation software is known to work with exactly the version of disk encryption software you have installed on your system), so I had to re-install all of the software that I think I need to do my day-to-day. For me this includes development stuff like IntelliJ IDEA, Perforce, Eclipse, FlexBuilder, ColdFusion, TortoiseSVN, etc, etc.
Eventually I want to actually edit some HTML for some reason, so I need to get a copy of Dreamweaver. Plus Homesite+ 'cause I am still old-school when I need to edit CFML. I have a secret stash of Homesite+ (we haven't sold it as a product in quite a while), but I like to stay current on Dreamweaver cause they be adding in some good stuff that I'll probably never use, but I like to know that I have it. So I went looking for the CS4 - Web Premium installer.
I found it and after installing the 4 Gigabytes worth of software, I had my Dreamweaver CS4 along with ~10 other programs that all look really neat and that I will never use in my day job of writing Java server code. But again, its nice to know that I have it and hey there are some perks to working at Adobe, like being able to install $10,000 worth of software you probably wont use on your Adobe laptop (did I mention the disk encryption software?).
To make a long story longer, one of the included programs was Contribute CS4. I love Contribute and in fact have written lots of ColdFusion specifications using it (now we write specs in a Wiki, which is the spawn of the devil, but I think that is the topic for another post). By this point, it should come to no surprise to those who have read the title of this entry that I am typing this very blog post in Contribute. And I must say it's really nice. It integrated with Blogger quickly with just the entry of my user name and password. The editor grabs the look and feel of my pages and does a real nice job of showing me how the final post will look. There are IE and Firefox plug-ins that give me one button access to create a new post. All-in-all it is a very nice interface and the Contribute team has done a great job with this release.
So I lied, maybe I will use some of the other software included in CS4. Now if I could just figure out how to use Photoshop....
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Happy New Year
Happy New Year. I realized I haven't posted anything for quite a while. I have been heads down working on the next version of LiveCycle Data Services, which of course I can't talk about. :-) So here is wishing you and yours a happy, healthy 2009.
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