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New Poll: Would you consider "attending" or even participating in an online-only conference?

Rich Tretola
March 23, 2009 | | Comments (9)
Rich Tretola
With travel budgets under constraint, some tech industry conferences are contemplating going online-only for their conferences. An example of this was Aral Balkan's <head> conference that occurred in Oct 2008. My experience with conferences has been that attending them is...

Poll Results: Which of these other languages do you use most?

Rich Tretola
March 23, 2009 | | Comments (5)
Rich Tretola
With over 300 votes counted, the results show PHP leading the way with almost 30% of the vote, followed by Java (19%), JavaScript (13%), ColdFusion (10%), C# (8%), and Ruby (7%). To me these results are not at all surprising...

Drupal and Dreamweaver's Jekyll and Hyde Problem

Rich Tretola
March 17, 2009 | | Comments (10)
Rich Tretola
Drupal and Dreamweaver's Jekyll and Hyde Problem
There was a discussion going on internally at O'Reilly spawned by an email from Tim O'Reilly pointing editors at a post commented on at Slashdot about a blog post made by a web designer: Dreamweaver is Dying, Long Live Drupal. (Original post is here).

New Poll: ActionScript is now among the most popular languages. Which of these other languages do you use the most?

Rich Tretola
March 16, 2009 | | Comments (13)
Rich Tretola
Recently O'Reilly's quarterly State of the Computer Book Market analysis - Part IV, Languages - was released. If book sales are any indication, ActionScript is now among the most popular languages. So, with our new poll question we would like...

Poll Results: How do you go about creating the design of your applications?

Rich Tretola
March 16, 2009 | | Comments (7)
Rich Tretola
The majority of our poll respondents either create the design of applications themselves (over 55%) or they have an in house staff (over 35%) that creates the design. This is quite an overwhelming percentage. In fact there were only 3.5%...

New Poll: How do you go about creating the design of your applications?

Rich Tretola
March 9, 2009 | | Comments (7)
Rich Tretola
The design, (which includes the look and feel, user experience, and information architecture) of an application can often be the determining factor in the overall success of the application. Given this level of importance we would like to know how...

Poll Results: Open Source

Rich Tretola
March 9, 2009 | | Comments (2)
Rich Tretola
It appears that a product of software library being open source has a profound influence on whether or not the readers of InsideRIA decide to use it. Over 80% of those responding said it was more likely that they would...

qooxdoo 0.8.2 has been released

Rich Tretola
March 6, 2009 | | Comments (0)
Rich Tretola
qooxdoo has released a new version, http://qooxdoo.org. Here are some of the highlights of the brand new 0.8.2 release: * Inspector, a cross-browser debugging tool a la Firebug * Tons of improvements and bugfixes over the previous version * Tested...

RIATrax Flex Event Tracking (Now Open Source)

Rich Tretola
March 4, 2009 | | Comments (3)
Rich Tretola
RIATrax Flex Event Tracking (Now Open Source)

Inspired by the initial returns of this weeks poll, I have decided to open source a new Flex library for Google Event Tracking that I have been working on and host it at http://code.google.com/p/riatrax/.

New Poll: The fact that a product or source code library is open source makes it:

Rich Tretola
March 3, 2009 | | Comments (4)
Rich Tretola
Last week we asked if you have been a contributor to open source efforts. So, as a follow up, this week we would like to know if a product or software library that is open source makes it more likely...

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