RIAction Post-Mortem
Last Friday we successfully held our RIAction event at the Microsoft Singapore office, which is Singapore’s first ever event for Rich Internet Applications and web development.
In a nutshell…
Although it was tiring, I had a wonderful time organizing the event with the cool guys from FUG (who said people from competing technologies can’t mix?), and it was awesome to see an event where Microsoft, Adobe, and Google shared the same stage to tell the audience what cool stuff is available today for developers to use to build their RIAs.
I said it during the keynote, and I’ll say it again here:
Competition is passé. Interoperability is the new black.
Instead of worrying about which technology is better, let’s celebrate the fact that the market is big enough for different vendors and their technologies to co-exist and work together.
Ultimately, the more diversity we have in development technologies, the bigger the win is for developers.
RIAction Reactions
Enough words from me. Here are what other people are saying about RIAction:
From Abhishek Kumar:
IMO the RIAction team (one of the organizers is Hu Shunjie) did a pretty good job of a first RIA Conference in Singapore.
Elliot Williams had this to say:
i attended the riaction event put together by shunjie …. it was a whole day event on 26feb2009… i took off… and boy was it worth it…
Gerald from FusedThought Studio said this:
It was quite interesting to see evangilists from 3 rival companies in many products together in the same room. However, as pointed out in the keynote address, the theme is interoperability. What we have now are choices which developers in the past may not have..
Carlson from Creative Crew posted a few photos.
Also check out what people are saying about RIAction on Twitter.
And finally, my co-organizer Shunjie is already thinking about RIAction 2. Do drop him a line or leave a comment if you have feedback on what you want to see in the next RIAction!
Until next time, here are some more cool RIAction stuff…
“I Love RIAction” Video
RIAction Photo Mosaic (featuring Silverlight Deep Zoom technology)
You will need Silverlight installed to view the photo mosaic properly. If you don’t have it installed, you can get it here.
Hint: Use your mouse and scroll wheel to navigate around…
(Photos and Silverlight Deep Zoom application courtesy of Neng Giin)
RIAction Presentation Slides
All of the session presentations will be posted shortly on the RIAction website. In the mean time, I have uploaded my two RIAction presentations onto SlideShare:
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