In this first episode of RIA Weekly, Ryan Stewart, Charles Lowell, and I talk about a wide swath of topics:

• Ryan asks Charles what how his company, The Front Side decided how "dressed up" their UIs should be. Charles says the major limit is time and skill.
• We talk about James Ward's Flex sightings at Oracle OpenWorld (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), which moves into Flex in enterprise development
• I ask Ryan about the current state of Silverlight and how much video plays into it.
• We also talk about the Chumby I recently got and how that fits into the idea of RIAs.

There're probably some things I missed, but that's the gist of it.

If all goes as planned, Ryan and I will be back next week for another episode. Feel free to leave comments below.

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Disclaimer: Adobe is a client (though they're not involved in the podcast, beyond Ryan's participation), Sun, SAP, and the Microsoft STB unit.

In this episode I talk again (see episode #42) with ESM blogger John Willis. We talk about open source in IT management, but more than that, we talk about possible ways the data center landscape could change ("Infrastructure 2.0," if you will): namely, Hardware-as-a-Service, which essentially means hosting your stuff behind a URL instead of on-premise (you, know, more or less). Whatever it may actually mean, it seems all this *aaS stuff is a big change waiting to happen when it comes to the way IT management is done.

For example, if a new business opened up and ran completely off URLs, what role would existing IT management thinking and vendors have? Not much, it seems.

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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of talking with Erich Gamma about his current work on Rational's Jazz project. Erich first gives us a general overview of Jazz, and then we discuss the motivations for Jazz, highlighting ways it aims to help geo-distributed teams and better document desires and explanations in code. We also talk about Jazz's architecture: how it can be deployed as a whole, or taken part-by-part.

Next we get into a discussion of how to manage the "openness" of a project like Jazz, where-in Erich makes some interesting comparisons to the way Eclipse was developed early on. Tied up with this is a brief discussion of how thinking about commercializing the architecture enters general design thinking.

Rounding out the Jazz portion of the podcast, I ask Erich about the use of REST over SOAP (or other WS-* stuff) in Jazz.

Since Erich was up at OOPSLA '07 this week, we end the podcast talking about the keynotes and other goings on at OOPSLA. In particular, we talk about the difference between the Fred Brooks model for software development teams and the more team-lead method of Agile development teams. Check out the OOPSLA '07 podcast for the keynotes Erich mentions.

Thanks to Bill Higgins for helping get Erich and I together ;>

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Disclaimer: IBM and Eclipse are clients.

A few weeks ago, I talked with John Willis about enterprise systems management. I found the conversation quite fun and interesting. John Willis is an independent, Tivoli consultant, so he's got all sorts of good, frank content.

We talk about his "What Does Bob Want?" story which discusses getting the ESM software to tell the CIO what he actually want to know: that the IT is working, end-to-end. Also, we talk about SOA and ESM, and then open source in the IT management space. As ever, John is particularly into Puppet.

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In this episode of RedMonk radio, I talk with Ryan Stewart, newly of Adobe, and RIA blogger at ZDNet. We swap notes on what Adobe evangelists do vs. what RedMonk does, talk about this year's foocamp, talk about the RIA road-testing we expect to see in the next year, and then end up talking about the never ending quest for UI frameworks that don't suck and can remain useful over many different releases.

Disclaimer: Adobe is a client.

Talk early, and talk often.

In this episode, Coté talks with Scott Mark about Agile QA, starting with a discussion of a book he recently wrote a chapter for, Agile Software Development Quality Assurance. Also, see Scott's commentary on the book. We talk about the chapter, but expand out to his experience with Agile QA and Agile development in general.

I like this episode because Scott tells us what's been working for him and his group, esp. when it comes to cultural practices and changes.

Thanks again to Scott Mark for "calling in," and putting up with some hijinks to get the call going ;>

(Fun drinking game: take a shot every time Coté says he won't ramble-on or "editorialize" and then does, ad nauseum. Advanced players: include dog barking as well.)

In this episode, James and Coté talk with Archie Roboostoff of NetManage about their general offerings and idea of "Incremental SOA." The idea there being that it's better to slowly, but in short release cycles, roll out an SOA-based systems, esp. in the world of "legacy" integration and updated that NetManage operates in.

In this episode, Steve and Coté talk with Andy Astor of EnterpiseDB.

We discuss what EnterpiseDB does, what it's like to provide support for open source, and then tackle the question of "what is an open source company?"

All in all, I think it was a nice episode, if I don't say so myself. Thanks to Andy and his silent buddy Christian ;>

Disclaimer: EntepriseDB is a client.

In this episode, James and Coté talk with Thomas Otter and Jeremiah Stone, both of SAP.

This episode is long, but we talk of many things:

• "A Passion for Boring"
• Broccoli and Ice Cream
• Blaming ERP
• SAP's Design Services Team
• Working With Your UI
• The Sloppy Space of Master Data Management

Enjoy!

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In this episode, Anne and Coté talk about: Nexaweb, AJAX and middleware, The Culture of Interrupting, When Work Has No End, Mute Buttons, and Personal Agile.

Happy holidays, everyone, and have a good new year!

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