Last night I presented my “Apollo: The Unofficial WTF” at the LFPUG in London. I presented after Alias who did a presentation on procedural bitmap effects. Alias was relaxed and gave a great and interesting presentation with some stunning examples and work he’s been doing. My presentation went okay, I’d like to have been a [...]
Continue readingOkay, so maybe the name is a little premature and should be called ApolloCoderWannabes for the short-term (even the “Apollo” bit is only codename at present). However, Ryan has brought to the public’s attention an ApolloCoders mailing list created by Ted Patrick. If you’ve got a burning desire to start asking questions or discussing ideas [...]
Continue readingMike Downey (Apollo Sr. Product Manager) gave an excellent short and precise demonstration of Apollo at DEMO. He demonstrates some of the functionality from the much discussed San Dimas project which is looking awesome and really shows off the power of Apollo. Another cool showcase that has caught my attention is by the guys at [...]
Continue readingRyan Stewart has an overview of some of the new features and fixes for the release of Flex 2.0.1, there are some interesting extras for the SDK and Flex Builder 2. There is also support for some Apollo functionality although we don’t know too much about this. My guess is Adobe are getting the libraries [...]
Continue readingJust re-reading a post I made a short while back on Apollo, where I mentioned a split between desktop application developers and web applications developers and thought I’d go into a little more depth here. I am of the understanding that the target audience for Apollo is web developers, this is quite an obvious one [...]
Continue readingOne of the challenges Adobe face with Apollo will be how wide an audience they can reach in a short amount of time. The golden target would be of course, to reach similar levels of adoption as the Flash Player. However this is a mamouth task and will certainly not happen over night. The other [...]
Continue readingAfter reading a comment recently about the number of windows application developers who will jump on the RIA bandwagon with the introduction of WPF, I got to wondering if the argument stands the other way round. The initial comment was along the lines of “Windows application devs don’t understand that web apps are different…” which, [...]
Continue readingHave just confirmed with Tink that in Feburary I’ll be doing a presntation on Apollo at the London Flash Platform User Group. More info when I have prepared a little more.
Continue readingRyan Stewart has a blog post containing an interview with Alan Lewis of with EffectiveUI who are the developers of an Apollo app in development for eBay known as the San Dimas project. I saw a demo of this app at FOTB and it looks very impressive. One particular part grabbed my interest: “Alan also [...]
Continue readingI made a rather long post about Apollo in general, I intend to explore in a little more depth some of the opportunities that will arise as Apollo emerges onto the scene. One of my first thoughts is on the implications of being able to create rich internet (desktop integrated) apps without any of the [...]
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