…and 6 months later, the proof. The piece of paper that proves to people with whom I have never met that I am certified to most likely not be an idiot.
Am I a better coder because of receiving this degree? No. Do other people who have never met me think so now that I have this? Yes.
I’ve walked, and now been certified. Onward!
I’m glad Flash will be shielded from this. The words “standards” and “Rich Internet Application” feel like oil and water to me. While I believe usability standards are of the utmost need right now, I disagree on standardizing MXML; it’s already follows the XML schema, is well formed, and it validates against its DTD (which was shoe-horned into a DTD which is no fault of Macromedia’s, just the odd combination of a rich markup representing containers combined with a strict tag definition)… what really needs to be standardized about it? More so, why must MXML validate against the standard the W3C sets when it’s already valid XML? The last hypothetical question, “What defines a web application that uses markup to build it?” will hopefully answer all, and spawn (and answer) many other fundamental & important questions.
In all fairness, I am jumping the gun pre-judging deliverables on an initiative that has barely gotten started.
Anyway, snippet from the first deliverable.
This deliverable should be based on an existing application/UI format, such as Mozilla’s XUL, Microsoft’s XAML, Macromedia’s MXML or Laszlo Systems’ LZX, provided the owners of the format are willing to contribute. The format should allow embedded program code. This format, combined with the deliverables below and existing technologies including XHTML, CSS, XForms, SVG and SMIL, should provide a strong basis for rich client application development.
Programming Interfaces (AJAX/XMLHttpRequest)
Via Manish Jethani.
Maybe old news, but updating my java runtime on another box that I hadn’t turned on in awhile, and I noticed in updating my JRE it included an opt-out Google Toolbar install for IE.
Technology journalist Robert X. Cringely interviews Anina in episode #9, a Europeon catwalk model about the mobile internet on his show “I, Cringely” which airs on NerdTV @ PBS. She is very positive about FlashLite & FlashCast and shows her belief in it. She mentions a comparison between FlashLite and Flash 7 and how FlashLite isn’t as powerful… hehe, Deuce’ll (FlashLite 2) change that hopefully.
Another cool thing is the show itself is under a Creative Commons license, my favorite license for my open source software that I put out. In researching usage rights of the video so I could show you all a snippet, within the very first description paragraph about the show, it clearly mentions this license, and your rights to create new versions of the show, and distribute it to your friends. Holy cow, what a frikin’ cool concept… that’s easy to find! Thanks PBS!!!
I’ve included the 2 minute segment here. If you want the full episode, you can download the mp4 or Torrent file from the site.
Finally, just to confirm, the Flash 8 FLV Video Player, the component that comes with Flash Player 8, is how skinning SHOULD be done. If you are a component maker, and want to know how to create components for others to skin, that is THE prime example which all others should be compared.
Via Rajat Paharia.