Welcome John Wilker!

My company, EffectiveUI, made a really cool hire - one that I'm pretty excited about. John Wilker will be coming on board as our first Community Ev...

See the Data, Be the Data at 360|Flex

Juan Sanchez and I just got done with what turned out to be a really fun presentation on Data Visualization at 360|Flex. We had code samples that w...

Flex on Rails at 360|Flex

My Flex and Rails presentation at 360 went really well, and thanks to everyone who came that early in the morning.All the code can be found at Git-...

DHH on the UIRC

I was fortunate to be able to take part in an interview with David Heinemeier Hansson on the User Interface Resource Center. As always, David was o...

Use blank fixtures for Bj tables when testing with Bj

I have an integration test where I need to test a web process that starts a background process with Ara T Howard's awesomely named Bj plugin (Backg...

360's coming, did you bring your coat?

So Tom and John have really been putting on the pressure to blog, so here I am! Finally blogging!I'm going to be at 360 Flex in San Jose on August ...

UIRC scores Iron Man Interview

Ok, maybe not with Iron Man himself, but close. The User Interface Resource Center, (UIRC) which is sponsored by my company EffectiveUI, has a grea...

Flex Needs Some New Thinking

Anyone who's used Ruby or another dynamic language (I suppose Python is good, but I can't stand the syntax and whitespace-nazism) and started to re...

I <3 Rails

AS3 Git Library

Scott Chacon, author of the Peepcode Git Internals pdf and of gitcasts.com, has released an Actionscript library for traversing local Git trees. A ...

AIR with Rails @ RailsConf

Thank you! to everyone that came to our talk today. It's a very hard balance to cover people who haven't heard of a technology to people who just w...

RailsConf

RailsConf is coming up fast - next week in fact. If you're coming to the hands on tutorial part on Thursday (29th) come and see Daniel Wanja and I ...

FlexManiacs Presentation

Thanks to everyone that attended my FlexManiacs talk on Flex and Rails. It went well I think, if a little rushed - there was a lot of material to g...

The Clash of the Devices

Look, in 8-10 years I want to be spending less time in front of the computer. "As we know it", I should have added. I hope it doesn't take that lon...

User Interface Resource Center Goes Live

If you're interested in discussion and learning about better User Interfaces, you should check out the User Interface Resource Center, an initiativ...

Come see a great panel at the Web 2.0 Expo

Well, tomorrow, the wife and kid and I are off to Italy, and while I'm not looking forward to the day spanning, multi leg, long flight with a 1.5 y...

EffectiveUI Releases Discovery Earth Live

Last week Discovery Earth Live, built by co-workers and friends at EffectiveUI. There's a better write up at http://rjria.blogspot.com/.Anyhow asid...

EffectiveUI Releases Discovery Earth Live

Last week Discovery Earth Live, built by co-workers and friends at EffectiveUI. There's a better write up at http://rjria.blogspot.com/.Anyhow asid...

EffectiveUI Releases Discovery Earth Live

Last week Discovery Earth Live, built by co-workers and friends at EffectiveUI. There's a better write up at http://rjria.blogspot.com/.Anyhow asid...

RailsConf Baby!

I have the official word, Daniel Wanja and I are presenting a tutorial at RailsConf 2008. This is as exciting for me as speaking at MAX - two great...

ScaleNine's Juan Sanchez joins the EffectiveUI team

I'm really excited to say that Juan Sanchez, whom you may know from ScaleNine.com, has joined the EffectiveUI team.Not only does he bring a great d...

Speaking at WebManiacs in DC

I was invited to speak at the WebManiacs conference in May. I'll be speaking on Flex with Rails, similar to my talk at MAX, but with more meat and ...

SEO with Flash

One of the classic protests to Flash on the web is SEO. Some of that new content I was talking about on InsideRIA is already here, an example of wh...

O'Reilly's new RIA Destination

O'Reilly has released a new site devoted to all aspects of RIA design and development at InsideRIA. The site is centered around blog posts and arti...

Woot!

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8328

Usability Rule: A feature doesn't have real existence unless it's easy to use

I know someone has probably said something like this before, but it hit me today while using Git (well, git-svn) on a project.A feature isn't reall...

Adding some generators to RubyAMF

I'm having fun adding some generators to RubyAMF. They should help get your RubyAMF project kicked off a little fast and in the Rails style. More o...

Yer all Jeenyusis.

I just wanted everyone to know that reading this blog makes u smrt.Get a Cash Advance

CFUnited Express Presentation: Offline/Online with AIR

This last Friday (11/9) I was able to stand in for Simon Horwith and speak at CFUnited Express Bay Area, a mini conference by TeraTech. I spoke on ...

Google's Looking Out for Me.

It's not often I get excited about a User Interface feature as small as this, but I found this one pretty special.I hopped into my Gmail and starin...

Delegate Factories with Prana

I've been having fun with Prana lately. Prana is an IoC container framework for Flex under development by Christophe Herreman. Prana is sort of bui...

Flex needs a Custom Metadata Class

At MAX, I was really surprised to find out a sekret Flex compiler feature: You can keep custom metadata around in your Flex app. There's a tutorial...

A Haiku for Jaiku

So I don't know if Jaiku is pronounced hai-ku or yai-ku, but here's a haiku anyway:Google bought JaikuI really envy those guysWith all that money

RubyAMF makes me happy

I've been excited about RubyAMF for a while, and I finally got a chance to try it out after I worked it into my MAX presentation last week.Aaron Sm...

eBay Wins!!

eBay Desktop, created by EffectiveUI and product managed by Alan Lewis of eBay, has just won a MAX award! Nice work!Wait... this just in.. we won a...

MAX Day Thermo

We've been hearing about Thermo for a while now, and yup, it's pretty sweet :)Basically it's the best "design view" ever made, and it works for Fle...

MAX Day One

Internet connection is a bit spotty, and I was running all over the place yesterday, so I'm a day off, sorry.Best session yesterday was "Flash Inte...

Flex and Rails resources

Thanks for coming to my talk at MAX on Flex with Rails. I really wish my computer wouldn't have crashed right before the last part of my presentati...

Let the MAX announcements begin...

Adobe acquired Virtual Ubiquity! Grats to the Buzzword Peeps, grats to Adobe...Now, what other big office suite names are out there? Hm.....

Off to MAX

Packed and ready to run to the airport for MAX to spread the good word about Flex with Rails and why the development story there is the best of all...

"Rails", "Fails", and other controversial words that rhyme

I'd like to welcome a new member to the EffectiveUI team. Simon Horwith is a great addition, and he's going to be working on some great enterprise ...

My 360 Flex Video

My 360 Flex video is up now over at cruxy. The video snippet at the beginning isn't indicative of how stunning the whole video is, though, since I ...