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This week, Coté joined by special guest host James Ward while Ryan continues week two of his Japan journey.

Here are the topics we cover:

• Update on James and Bruce Eckel's bookFirst Steps in Flex
• Omaha Steaks - James lives in Omaha.
• Portals and RIAs; Anvil.
• What kinds of applications are portals being used for?
• Do we even call these things portal? Lotus Expeditor seems like an interesting examples of Portal-meets-RIA.
• "The case against Web apps."
• Titanium number: "We've had over 5k developers give it a try and well over 20K+ downloads in the past 30 days." -Jeff Haynie
• Revisiting why desktop integration is nice.
• GMail has offline support.
• Offloading performance intensive stuff to the cloud for desktop RIAs, like searching Coté's email.
• TweetDeck gets funding
  
• Flex in new versions of enterprise software: WorkDay, ZipTie, others.
• The Flex SDK open source hoopla (here & here), and, see the recorded webinar on the topic.
• The Poken Give-away. Free Pokens for lucky listeners! (Listen in on how to try and get a free Poken.)

Sponsorship

This Episode is Sponsored by Adobe:

Use the Adobe Flex framework and Adobe AIR to create rich Internet applications. RIAs that combine the wide reach of the browser and the flexibility of applications that can also be delivered outside the browser. Adobe Flex combined with Adobe AIR provides an agile and powerful solution to develop and make quick iterations on applications that reach across platforms and deliver a consistent user experience.

Download the free Flex Builder trial and the Adobe AIR SDK and start building the next- generation of RIAs.

Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as are Microsoft, Appcelerator, and IBM.

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Ryan is on vacation this week, but returning guest Bill Higgins was kind enough to step in as guest co-host. Bill, as you may recall works at IBM on the Rational Jazz platform. Much of his work focuses on the UI layer thereof so it was a nice chance to talk with someone who day-to-day thinks about, designs, and develops in the UI layer.

Bill and I discuss:

• An update on Jazz
• Comparing GUI 1.0 concepts to GUI 2.0, in the Ajax space
• Silverlight for videos from the inauguration to the XBox
• IBM and RIAs
• WebKit
• What does "desktop integration" really mean for RIAs?
• Adobe open ups RTMP

Sponsorship

This Episode is Sponsored by Adobe:

Use the Adobe Flex framework and Adobe AIR to create rich Internet applications. RIAs that combine the wide reach of the browser and the flexibility of applications that can also be delivered outside the browser. Adobe Flex combined with Adobe AIR provides an agile and powerful solution to develop and make quick iterations on applications that reach across platforms and deliver a consistent user experience.

Download the free Flex Builder trial and the Adobe AIR SDK and start building the next- generation of RIAs.

Disclosure: Adobe sponsored this podcast and is a client, as is IBM. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

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In this episode, John and I discuss:

• Go and comment on Coté's nomination for the Texas Social Media awards!
• Cloud Camp ATL
  
• Cloud Camp Austin?
• Paglo MSP news
  
• Splunk partnership news
  
• Zenoss funding? Not exactly: they secured a line of credit.
• Spiceworks 3.5
  
• Dashboard-cum-widgets
• Hyperic jcollectd
• Native WMI support in OpenNMS
  
• WMI, CIM, and the missed boat thereof
• Cloud Interop Summit
  
• Blue Mountain Coffee, Australia, and Blue Mountain Labs
• Lotusphere entering IBM into SaaS. Is "good enough" good enough?
• Moonshine
  
• Nice interfaces on-top of IT Management space, e.g., the recent myCMDB article on that topic
• SearchDataCenter.com Product of the Year Awards: Splunk
• Luke has a beard! (See above.)

Disclosure: Splunk is a client, as are IBM, Microsoft, Hyperic, and Spiceworks. See the RedMonk client list for more clients mentioned.

Note: It seems I forgot to post last week's episode. Here it is, late. Apologies!

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In this episode, John and I discuss:

• Grid stuff in on-demandenterprise.com: here and here
• Using Twitter as a news source
• Kaavo cloud console announcement
• Inside the PR machine
• Opscode Chef - John's interview with them
• EngineYard Vertebra, buddies with Amazon on Solo
• Ruby in the IT management space?
• What (scripting) languages do IT people like/dislike?
• Will the enterprise have to transition to act like web companies?
• EMC Atmos - storage cloud and EMC memories - Atmos is the vault
• Spiceworks 3.5 coming out next week [see my note on 3.5 from this week as well]
• Slideshare Puppet podcast
• Salesforce Customer Service in the cloud
• Platformizing all these closed systems out there, the Jon Udell angle on community calendars and such

Disclosure: IBM and Reductive Labs (Puppet) are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

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In this week's episode, Ryan and I start out by picking up a conversation about Evernote (see screenshot of the OS X client above) we'd been having before recording. Aside from explaining what Evernote is - and taking a trip down memory lane on tablets and Microsoft OneNote - I talk about how it seems like it'd be perfect for being and RIA. We then go onto news about:

• Spout Builder
• Ryan trying out Windows 7
• Silverlight for the inauguration
• Overlay.tv
• Brightcove
• The role RIAs could play in the portal world
• LiveCycle ES in Amazon EC2 announcement.

Also, here are the shared notes, in Evernote, that I mention at the beginning.

Sponsorship

This Episode is Sponsored by Adobe:

Use the Adobe Flex framework and Adobe AIR to create rich Internet applications. RIAs that combine the wide reach of the browser and the flexibility of applications that can also be delivered outside the browser. Adobe Flex combined with Adobe AIR provides an agile and powerful solution to develop and make quick iterations on applications that reach across platforms and deliver a consistent user experience.

Download the free Flex Builder trial and the Adobe AIR SDK and start building the next- generation of RIAs.

Disclosure: Adobe is a client and sponsored this podcast. Overlay.tv is a RedMonk client as well, as is Microsoft.

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In this sponsored episode of RedMonk Radio, I talk with Karl Pietri of Slideshare, along with Luke Kanies and Andrew Shafer of Reductive Labs. We discuss how Slideshare uses Puppet to manage all of it's data-centers, spread across geographies, their own on-premise servers, and the cloud via Amazon EC2.

First, we go over the Slideshare architecture (a Ruby on Rails shop) and how that drives the layout of the data-center. Karl then tells us how Puppet is used to manage the different servers, highlighting how they use it for private/public cloud mixing. On this point, I ask Andrew to compare Slideshare's use with others in the Puppet community.

Getting down the to the day-to-day operations, we spend the last part of the show talking about how Puppet fits into Slideshare's release management (via SVN) and how it's effected the relationship between development and operations.

Finally, we wrap up with a semantic-check on the word "pager": are sys admins still running around with beepers still?

Disclosure: Reductive Labs is a client and sponsored this podcast.

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This week, Ryan and I wrap up the news from the Holiday break. We spend a lot of time talking about non-computer "screens" for RIAs: Netbooks, GPS units, and XBoxes. We also cover and comment on Curl's use of AMF and a handful of other RIA related stories.

Sponsorship

This Episode is Sponsored by Adobe:

Use the Adobe Flex framework and Adobe AIR to create rich Internet applications. RIAs that combine the wide reach of the browser and the flexibility of applications that can also be delivered outside the browser. Adobe Flex combined with Adobe AIR provides an agile and powerful solution to develop and make quick iterations on applications that reach across platforms and deliver a consistent user experience.

Download the free Flex Builder trial and the Adobe AIR SDK and start building the next- generation of RIAs.

Disclosure: Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe sponsored this podcast. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.