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A shout out to Mike – from heart attack to thanking the EMS
Every few days there’s a new post at Mike’s blog or on his Facebook profile documenting his terrific progress.
Dude – it will be great to see you. You’re an inspiration man.
Comcast Interactive Media developer stories for Sunday May 17th, 2009
Tom Baker, writing for O’Reilly’s Inside RIA: Getting Involved in Higher Education – some great thoughts on why developers should consider teaching.
Jon Moore on RSA Public Key Cryptography in Java
Arpit Mathur: My experience with Git and why I think Open Source projects should be released on Git
Aaron Held: Peeling back the onion of stupidity
Mat Schaffer: What I Learned About Cookies This Week
And a shout out to Roz Duffy for encouraging me (and others) to read “The Adventures of Johnny Bunko” – a fantastic career (and life) improvement guide – written manga style!
Yesterday’s Comcast Cares
Yesterday was quite a day. In the morning I went out with fellow co-workers to Hunting Park to help do some clean up and planting for Comcast Cares Day. It was a small personal victory for me. Previous two years I haven’t been able to attend due to the back pain issue. This year, not only could I attend, but I was able to assist for a few hours. There are pictures up on Flickr. Felt great to go out and lend a helping hand with fellow friends.
Open Source Rich Internet Application Framework at CIM: OpenPyro
Check it out: OpenPyro: OpenPyro is a pure AS3 framework for creating RIA’s. Open Pyro draws a lot of inspiration from Flex but aims to be more expressive as well as have a smaller filesize and memory footprint.
Arpit Mathur, one of the most brilliant developers I know and a straight up Flash guru is leading the Open Pyro project. He recently posted about OpenPyro on his personal blog and includes a screencast of him using the framework to develop an app.
Kevin Fitzpatrick another CIM Flash master, and lead developer of another open source project at CIM, LogBook, comments about OpenPyro.
Why I’ve kinda disappeared as of late – the new comcast.net
Take a gander at the new Comcast.net (we’re still in beta) home page 🙂
As some of you know, I’m part of the development group that builds the systems that drive and support comcast.net.
I’m excited about this latest release – it’s been my pleasure to be part of an awesomely talented team and on this project, I’ve been a primary contributor to the architecture as well as code. In a way, it’s a return to my previous role at Knight Ridder Digital.
I think we’ve built a platform that will enable our product teams to rapidly get new, working features and functionality to customers, where previously, doing so was a chore. This system really sets our UI team free – no longer requiring server side developers to create new functionality or even present new content.
Hopefully I’ll get the chance to to post about the technologies and techniques we’ve employed in its development, like Arpit has about The Fan.
I think it’s safe for me to mention the Web tier using Spring MVC and FreeMarker, with a back-end that resembles something akin to CouchDb, and feeding it all is a very modular, extensible CMS. Each tier is usable in different projects, together or independently. It always comes down to implementation details and I hope to share a few sometime, either here, or on a team blog someday.
You can visit our community blog to track changes to the site and get a short summary here.
Flex, Flash, and Comcast Interactive Media’s Fan 4.0 Alpha
The team I belong to at Comcast, Comcast Interactive Media, released an alpha version of our video player, The Fan, this week.
You can give it a try here. If I say so myself, it’s pretty sweet.
While more information is available on its official cimLabs page, including links to give feedback, I’d like to point you towards one of its developers, Arpit Mathur, and his blog entry about it.
This version of The Fan was built with Adobe’s Flex and Arpit has a lot to share about the project. Feel free to leave a comment and tell him what you think.
As Arpit mentions, we’re on the lookout for Flash developers. But there’s more to the CIM story than Flash. In fact, the development stack we use at CIM resembles what Bruce Eckel proposed in a piece called “Hybridizing Java” on Artima a while back. We are looking for experienced Web developers of all stripes to join us. Check out cimLife for more.
Update:
Arpit’s post about the new version of the Fan is earning some buzz.
RIApedia: Comcast Launches New Flex Based Video Site
Masable: The Fan – Comcast’s New Flex Video Site
Ryan Stewart: Comcast jumps into Flex 2 for media content
Shelley Powers: Cool Thingie
Update:
Aaron Held, my manager at CIM, checks in with more about Flash, Java, and The Fan.
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