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SRT Solutions will be hosting an RIA Jam, with Bruce Eckel, James Ward (Adobe) and Josh Holmes (Microsoft). This self-paced exploration of rich internet options will give participants the ability to learn about Flex and Silverlight and to talk about JavaFX, which doesn't seem to be quite ready for...

Ah, a new month and more tech events in Ann Arbor. All meetings are free and open to the public. SRT is happy to say that we will be hosting several of these meetings in our new office, at 206 S. Fifth, Suite 200. That's at the corner of Fifth and Washington, directly above the Linux Box. Entrance...

Upcoming Events Outside of Michigan Anyone who has read this blog knows that I am a huge fan of Open Spaces events. In particular, I've really enjoyed the Open Spaces events that Bruce Eckel has offered, in Crested Butte, Colorado. In about a week, you could travel to Crested Butte (about a 5 hr...

XAML/MXML: Why both? I'm always curious when we have competing standards emerging, and I wonder how that happens, and why. So, since we had people who were knowledgeable about both Flex and WPF at the UI Smackdown, it seemed reasonable to explore this issue with respect to XAML (Microsoft's XML...

Web App Limits: Real World Experiences A group convened a session to talk about web applications, and where they break down with real world experience. The limitations were noted as: 1. Javascript requires testing in many different browsers, but the GWT strives to solve this problem 2. May experience...

If you’ve been planning to attend the User Interface Smackdown 2007 event to explore GWT, Flex, and WPF, today is the last day to get early bird pricing. At close of business today, we’ll be updating the pricing, so if you’ve been planning to attend and have just been procrastinating...

Is this wrestling or deciphering software technologies? Definitely the latter! A few people have asked me about the name we chose for our user interface event on April 4, which will include Flex , GWT , and WPF . Honestly, the name was proposed by one of the participants, and we couldn’t think...

Explore Google's GWT, Adobe's Flex, and Microsoft's WPF for creating user interfaces Registration is now open for the User Interface Smackdown 2007 , being held April 4, 2007 at the Ann Arbor ITZone (Spark Central). The user interface toolkits that we will discuss and work with include (at...

Cool swag Is it rude to brag about the swag at a conference? Ah, well, I’m gonna do it anyhow. Next year, I’m convinced that the Java Posse Roundup 2008 will sell out during the early bird registration period, and it won’t be just for the swag. But it was cool swag. Cenqua and Google...

Friday, March 9 Friday was the final day for the Java Posse Roundup. We had 2 regularly scheduled sessions followed by a final session which included everyone. For the first session of the day, I attended a session on JNI, convened by Josh Marinacci of Sun. A major part of the discussion centered around...