In this inaugural RIA Wireside Chat, Josh Holmes and Mike Labriola discuss their backgrounds, how the RIA Chat podcast came to be, what RIA means, and their plans for the future.
Listen to Episode 01 - What is RIA?
Hosts:
Josh Holmes - RIA Evangelist for Microsoft
Josh Holmes is a RIA Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region. Prior to joining Microsoft in October 2006, Josh was a consultant working with a variety of clients ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller sized companies. Josh is a frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences focusing on emerging technologies, software design and development with an emphasis on mobility and RIA (Rich Internet Applications).
Mike Labriola - Senior Consultant at Digital Primates
Michael has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. He specializes in developing applications with high business impact using emerging technologies.
Michael worked as an author and technical editor on Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source and has published a series of articles on Adobe's Developer Center teaching others to integrate Flex client and server technologies. As a frequent speaker on Flex topics and contributor to Flex mailing lists, he is known throughout the developer community. Michael also speaks Spanish, Italian, and pretends to speak more Japanese than he actually knows.
Links:
Mike's Blog: http://blogs.digitalprimates.net/codeSlinger/
Josh's Blog: http://www.joshholmes.com
The Thirsty Developer Podcast: http://thirstydeveloper.com/
OpenLazlo: http://www.openlaszlo.org/
Silverlight: http://www.silverlight.net
Flex: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
LineRider: http://linerider.com/