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I'm Osma Ahvenlampi, CTO at Sulake, agile business practitioner, open source fan, professional software architect, amateur in most other stuff.
Tag - Shockwave
Sunday 11 May 2008
Last-minute preparations for ION 2008, and issues with Shockwave
By Osma on Sunday 11 May 2008, 15:31
I'm leaving early tomorrow morning to Seattle for the ION 2008 online games conference. I'm looking
forward to this trip quite a lot - I haven't been to this conference before,
but I've heard good things about it. It's also the first time I'm doing a one-hour
presentation in an American conference in front of an audience that I
expect to be pretty much experts in the same field as I am. That's for sure
going to be interesting, I hope the turnout is good. Been working to finalize
the content of the session for a while, but I'm still to start compiling the
slide deck; that's going to be a job in itself since I certainly don't want to
be left second compared to Sulka's 160-slide rapid-fire
session in GDC San Francisco that I now notice he never blogged about.
Saturday 19 May 2007
Consumer Java - could it be true?
By Osma on Saturday 19 May 2007, 12:45
With all the fuss recently about Adobe's Apollo bringing Flash to the desktop, Microsoft's Silverlight bringing .NET to the browser, and Sun's JavaFX bringing scriptable Java to the desktop and mobile devices, I've had to give some thought to the question of what might be the role of these platforms in the future of rich Internet applications, and whether the time might be getting closer for us to reconsider using Director and Shockwave to develop the things we can't develop using AJAX. Lets just say I'm not going to jump on any one of these quite yet.
However, I'd missed one thing Sun apparently is finally working on, that made me rather sceptical of JavaFX's potential - there is a project going on for fixing the consumer usability of Java in a browser environment called Consumer JRE, which might even be released as an update to Java 6. Wow - that'd make me really happy just as a daily user of all kinds of desktop Java applications, let alone that I might actually count Java as a viable option for developing something for consumer deployment. Good luck, guys. I'll be watching you closely.