[CoMoDev] January meeting
- From: David Beers <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <comodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:59:11 -0700
Hi folks! Hope everyone had a great holiday break. Now it's time to plan our
meeting schedule again--our next is scheduled for Jan 25, venue permitting. By
popular demand I am talking with the folks at Microsoft Denver about using one
of their conference rooms for future meetings. I should know in the next day
or two if that's available. The goal is to get a regular place where a more
formal presentation such as the one Darren Shaffer gave us in October can be
made comfortably: ideally something with AV equipment.
The topic for the Jan meeting is open depending on who is interested in
presenting. I've got a demo I'd like to do that I think could spur some
discussion in any of a few different directions: cross-platform development,
"smart client" applications, and special-purpose rapid application development
tools, among them. Smart clients, as defined by Microsoft, are "easily
deployed and managed client applications that provide an adaptive, responsive
and rich interactive experience by leveraging local resources and intelligently
connecting to distributed data sources." Perhaps the simplest way to think of
them is as applications that combine the best of fat and thin clients: the rich
user experience, high developer productivity, and responsiveness of fat
clients, plus the device adaptability, ease of deployment and change
management, and online/offline support of thin (browser) clients. The
application I will demonstrate (really two: a desktop designer and a mobile
application engine) will show a way to do smart clients that emphasizes
developer productivity and change management in a big way by developing tools
and clients that are designed to create specific classes of applications.
Sounds more high-falutin than it actually is, but I figured I'd try out a
little Microsoft-style razmatazz in hopes that we'll feel at home if they let
us use one of their rooms! :-)
I'd really like this not to be the whole session, though, so we can hear/see
some things that others would like to present. Any other regulars (or new
members) who would like to do a little show and tell of something they've been
up to?
David
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David Beers, Moderator
Colorado Mobile Developers
www.comodev.com
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