Web Performance

Thanks to Craftymind for benchmarking the various browser technologies. The performance of Flash is common topic between me and a designer-friend. Adobe really needs to step up the performance of the Flash player on the Mac. Mac's are selling like hotcakes, and us Mac-lovers are going to start shying away from Flash applications if they don't perform well.

Let's hope for the best!

Pudding update

It's been a while since I've blogged about the progress of Pudding. I'm taking the stance that it's better to work on Pudding than blog about it!

I hit a nice milestone for the technical side tonight, so it's time to take a breather and do a little post. That milestone is brining Pudding over to Rails 2. Pudding is definitely faster as a result of this framework upgrade and it's going to make my REST development work easier. I won't be deploying the upgrade to Rails 2 until the larger release of Pudding is ready. General Tomfoolery and I are having a "day of code" this weekend. We're meeting up on Saturday and coding all frigg'n day. 

Goal? 

Integrate the first attempt at a more advanced UI. I don't want to talk about the details quite yet, but I've got a plan for Pudding this year. If the General and I can pull it off this year I can really see the creative industry getting excited about how Pudding can help them work with their clients. None of the tools out there hit the nail on the head, and I want Pudding to do it.

More to come....

HTML 5 in about 10 to 15 years

Is this a joke?

"Work on HTML 5 is rapidly progressing, yet it is still expected to continue for several years. Due to the requirement to produce test cases and achieve interoperable implementations, current estimates have work finishing in around ten to fifteen years." Read full article.

CaseDetective To Flex

Ian M. Jones, a long-time microISV blogger, is re-inventing his application, CaseDetective, with Flex. He recently posted an update on how he likes working with Flex Builder and Flex 3.

Sketchcasting, Neat-o

This is a cool idea. I don't think they'll make money on the existing scope, short of getting purchased and then integrated into an existing blogging app.



The tool for creating the app is running in Flash, I wonder if it's implemented in Flex/OpenLaszlo or just the Flash IDE...

Silverlight, Flex, Web Applications :)

I'm glad to see that Adobe will be getting a legitimate competitor in the area of Rich Internet Application platforms. (Those small companies with custom plugins don't count. Neither do Applets.) Microsoft just announced Silverlight. (Don Dodge's write up. Microsoft's Silverlight homepage.)

Adobe needs this threat to their Flash platform. Nothing breeds better products than competition.

I really don't know much about Silverlight (just what I read in that press release). The obvious problem is, how much will developers, who aren't already drinking the MS Kool-aid, trust a "cross-platform" plugin from Microsoft? Not to mention, what about the tools to build the content? If the tools only run on Windows, you can forget about the people at the cutting edge.