O’Reilly: Inside RIA

I'm really looking forward to going to 360|Flex. When I've gone to conferences in the past, I've taken my laptop along, and this conference will be no exception. However, my plan is to only use my laptop during the hands-on...

Sometimes when we are working in Flash or Flex, we need to work with the raw pixels of an object on screen. Maybe we want to create a lightweight component to pull in photos off the web, make intelligently scaled...

Over the past month, I've been covering how I use various social media to gather information, connect with others, document and share my information, and advance my career. In Part 1, I share how I use Twitter. In Part 2, I reveal how FaceBook keeps me in touch with my friends. In Part 3 I discuss how blogging helps me record my thoughts in a way that is useful to myself and others. This week, I want to talk about LinkedIn.

Recently, I've been writing about how I use Social Media. In Part 1, I talked about how I use Twitter. In Part 2, I talked about how I use Facebook and potential I see in Facebook for all of us as developers. Last week, I made a slight digression to talk about how Connected TV and Social Media could work together to make TV as engaging as online content. Today, I'd like to talk about blogging. Obviously, I find blogging to be highly beneficial, and I believe that if you're not blogging, you should be, and here's why.

So far I've talked about how I actually use Social Media, and next week I fully intend to continue with that. But right now I'm really hyped about how several ideas in my life are converging right now, so I...

Last week I started a series about how I use social media, starting with Twitter. This week I'm going to talk about Facebook. What is Facebook? They tell me that Facebook started out as a way for Harvard University students...

We've often seen articles on why people don't like social media, the basics of how to use Twitter or Facebook, or even how to integrate your RIA into social media. What I haven't seen so much of are accounts of specifically what people are doing with social media and how it benefits them. The cool thing about having a column called "Developer Diary" is that I feel it lets me share my personal story with you. So for the next few weeks I'm going to tell you what I'm doing with social media and how it is benefitting me. This week, I am going to talk about Twitter.

Maybe I'm not very smart (don't answer that!). Possibly it's because I got my Graphic Design degree almost 20 years ago. Or maybe it's because most of what I've learned about UX design is geared toward eLearning, where the...

Last November, Rich Tretola asked InsideRIA readers what topics they'd like the InsideRIA bloggers to cover. One of the answers that intrigued me was by a commenter who was looking for advice on how to make the transition from...

It's no secret that I was really inspired by RIAdventure - I've been to and spoken at many conferences, but this was the first I had been to that was devoted to RIA's. One thing that was kind of nice and kind of odd was that I had the womens' bathroom to myself. This was nice, because the bathroom closest to our conference room had only one stall, but it underlined that I was the only woman there. This made me really curious about what other women might have been there had I been at a different conference. It's kind of difficult to find out much about conference attendees, so I thought I'd look at the women who have been speaking at recent conferences or are scheduled to speak in the next few months. Some of these women are ones I've known for a while, and others I discovered by going on this search.