I Was A Registered Alien!

Adobe Flex Developer Derby for Australia

Adobe and Builder AU have paired up to deliver an Australian version of the Flex Developer Derby.

I don't recall seeing any announcement of this anywhere, discovered it via a banner ad on Builder AU today.  The competition seems to mirror the recent offering for North America, some neat prizes on offering - each category winner will get an xBox 360 and the first 20 entrants to be selected and featured will get an AUD$50 iTunes gift card.

Entries have to be in by Wednesday 9th August, 2006.

My New Riches

That's it, I'm patenting water and air and now you're all going to have to pay...

If the Riya RIA had a Flash UI, you wouldn't need this

A video piece on Cnet got my interest - a search engine that could recognise faces and text in images.  When I decided to check it out I discovered that because the developers had chosen Ajax for their UI there were issues with cross browser/OS compatibility - Safari users need not apply right now.

Browser detection locked me out of a front page that on face value doesn't contain anything tricky - it's funny really.

If your application is using a lot of graphical trickery, doing nice UI stuff, and you're trying to reach the maximum number of users - why use a technology that'll lock people out?

The Riya Safari welcome message is below:



Associated links:
Riya - Photo Search
Searching for the right face - CNET Video (Flash video)

RIA Links

I was fortunate enough to be asked to speak about Rich Internet Applications yesterday at Digital Media Festival yesterday here in Sydney. The festival continues today with some other great speakers, I saw Les Walkling's Photoshop presentation yesterday and I'm sure that his session today will be equally interesting.

During my presentation I demoed some RIAs, some AJAX, the majority Flash based. Here's the list of links that I promised that I'd post today: