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RJ Owen is a Senior Developer at Effective UI. RJ was the lead developer on projects for Dow Jones, Random House and the Discovery Channel and contributed to ebay Desktop and the Adobe Video Workshop. In late 2007 RJ was featured on the Scoble show discussing RIA development and is passionate about the way that software affects and can improve people's lives. He is certified as an Adobe Community expert in Flex and co-authored the O'Reilly shortcut "Flex 3 Early Evaluator." RJ runs a flex blog called A Better Experience and while it's not as popular as Rich's, it's still pretty good. RJ holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science, generally does well on standardized tests, and lives in Colorado with his wife Marty.
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June 28 2010
If you're interested in learning HTML5 but don't know where to start, head over to HTML5rocks.com and poke around a little. The site contains tutorials, presentations, code samples, and links to all of the latest HTML5 resources available on the web. read moreJune 25 2010
Adobe recently announced the Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM): a digital museum created to document and preserve great works of digital art and innovation. The museum will be a large online interactive experience and opens in August of 2010. While few details are available right now, the Museum homepage… read moreAndroideroids: Grant Skinner's Multi-Screen Asteroids Game
June 22 2010
Flash Platform whiz Grant Skinner has released a video of his latest project. Dubbed "Androideroids", it is a multi-player version of the game Asteroids in which players control their individual ships using Android phones which connect to a desktop client that displays the full game. The game is powered by… read moreAdobe MAX registration is open!
June 21 2010
Adobe opened registration for the MAX conference earlier today. Early-bird pricing is a full $200 off the list price and well worth getting while the getting is good. read moreSwiz Framework nears version 1.0
June 18 2010
The Swiz micro-architecture for Flex development is nearing version 1.0. This is an important milestone for the Swiz team, some of whom have been working on the product for over two years new. If you haven't tried Swiz yet now is a great time to start. If you've been using… read moreRIA Review: Roc brings beats to Aviary
June 16 2010
Aviary is an amazingly powerful suite of free online content creation tools, many of which provide all the base line functionality of much more expensive commercial tools. Today Aviary released a beta version of their new simple music creation tool named Roc. I took Roc for a test drive and… read moreWhat the AIR 2.0 and FP 10.1 releases mean to you
June 10 2010
Adobe has somewhat silently released AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 today. If you haven't been part of the pre-release, here's what these releases mean to you. read moreJune 05 2010
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard the phrase "make it a game" or "make it like a game" or "give it some game-like features" in my career, I'd be retiring in luxury next week. Games provide an important proving ground for interface methods that drive technology… read moreThe "How, What, Why" framework for Experience Design
May 31 2010
Lately I've been looking closer at the way people use things as part of usability studies I'm doing in my job. One of the best things that has came out of this work is a new framework (for me) of thinking about how users interact with content. I believe this… read moreApril 27 2010
In working on my last post about Flash's relationship with the "open web" over the past 14 years, I started seeing a lot of parallels between Adobe's relationship with the open web and Apple's relationship with Adobe. Adobe struggles from being both open and closed in regard to their technology… read moreA Very Very Brief History of Flash and the Open Web
April 25 2010
Much has been made about HTML5 on the web, particularly concerning what it will do to the future of plug-in-based technologies like Flash. It's been difficult to sort out the truth from the frustration, as people on both sides polarize the issue by calling for the downfall of one technology… read moreiPad app Ideate promotes sketching, collaboration
April 02 2010
At my company we've always given out a piece of collateral that remains wildly popular with designers and developers: sketch pads containing basic web-design templates in the background. Ideate is an application that brings the sketching experience to the iPad in a way that is simple and provides just enough… read moreApril 01 2010
Well known Flex developer, data visualization engineer, and occassional exhibitionist Doug McCune passed away while on vacation early this morning. Doug is survived by his fiancee, pet chihuahua-greyhound mix, and several children living in different parts of the midwest. This entry describes the planned services and the legacy Doug leaves… read moreFlash Player 10 Security Model: Stakeholders and Sandboxes
March 29 2010
The Flash security model can seem daunting and a bit confusing to understand. In this entry we'll break it down and hopefully make things a bit easier to understand through an in-depth look at the two topics fundamental to the way Flash security works: stakeholders and sandboxes. After reading this… read moreMarch 11 2010
With the final day of of 360|Flex behind us, I give some short synopsis of the presentations I attended and some thoughts on the general trends in 360|Flex as a whole. read moreMarch 10 2010
Day 2 is here and gone. In this entry I'll talk about some of the highlights of the talks I attended and good things I've learned during the presentations. read moreMarch 09 2010
360|Flex day 1 recap. I attended a few sessions and give summaries here as well as some general thoughts on how things are going so far. read moreFebruary 02 2010
Today Adobe announced the release of the AIR 2.0 beta 2 on Adobe Labs, capping off a successful period of production and demo apps in built in beta 1. Some of the new features include enhanced control over printers, support for TLS/SSL sockets, and increased text input handling. read moreThe Differences between Usability and User Experience
January 23 2010
The rapid growth of RIA technology into the lives of every day people just a few years ago has carried both the usability and user experience industries to a new high in popularity. The success of software (particularly on the web) has driven both of these terms into our vernacular,… read more360|Flex conference features InsideRIA speakers
November 30 2009
The upcoming 306|Flex conference in San Jose next year will feature a plethora of InsideRIA bloggers as well as a few other big names in the industry. In the past this has been one of the best conferences for sharpening your skills and making new contacts within the Flex industry,… read moreHow to run a creative business
November 13 2009
Since moving into a quasi-management role at my current employer, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to continue fostering creativity and innovation while growing. It's a tough challenge - one that many companies get wrong and one that many people suffer because of. Netflix CEO… read moreWhy the Adobe/RIM announcement is important
November 09 2009
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was at RIM's annual BlackBerry developer convention today with some exciting news about the ways that Adobe and RIM are working together to bring great experiences to the BlackBerry. In this entry we'll discuss what the announcement contained and why it's important to you. read moreThe Kano Model and the Importance of User Experience
October 27 2009
“Quality Function Deployment,” or “QFD,” is a way of modeling business processes for good customer experiences. Sound like a lot of business jargon? Maybe it is, but it’s also very similar to something we in the interactive space are reinventing and rediscovering as “User Experience Design.” QFD was developed in… read moreSeptember 04 2009
You've been looking into the world of Rich Internet Applications for a while now but how do you make the jump? Whether you're a developer working in Java or C++ looking to get on the web or a designer working in an art department wanting to do more interactive, the… read moreJuly 22 2009
Yesterday IBM announced the release of ILOG Elixir 2.5 - the first Elixir release since ILOG was acquired by IBM back in January. read moreJuly 22 2009
Adobe Wave is an all-purpose aggregator designed to let you keep up to date on a variety of different media streams. The application is a simple AIR app that connects to a variety of different services and displays a small alert when new content is available. In this entry we'll… read moreJuly 17 2009
A few weeks ago I gave a talk with Andy McIntosh at Adobe Camp Denver on some of the new features in Flex 4. The conference was fantastic. I've embedded the slides and links to our examples in this entry. Enjoy! read moreTibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript
July 01 2009
Tibco PageBus is a free event framework for JavaScript. In this entry I discuss the merits of PageBus, how to implement it, and show a quick example demo I built integrating some HTML, PageBus, and a very simple Flash component. read moreTibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript
July 01 2009
Tibco PageBus is a free event framework for JavaScript. In this entry I discuss the merits of PageBus, how to implement it, and show a quick example demo I built integrating some HTML, PageBus, and a very simple Flash component. read moreAttention, Focus, and The Internet
May 22 2009
Distraction is a problem commonly diagnosed in our internet-driven careers in an internet-driven society. The media encourages the conversation, alternately providing tips and tricks on how to increase your productivity while blaming Google for destroying culture or discussing the impossibility of classical genius in a modern time frame. Wading through… read moreFlash vs. Silverlight on Smashing Magazine
May 11 2009
Earlier this month Smashing Magazine posted a broad review of Flash and Silverlight. The review covers the way the two products handle things like animation, publishing to the desktop, scripting, small file sizes, socket connections, capturing web-cam content, etc. read moreNew York Times AIR reader released
May 11 2009
The New York Times released a special reader application built in Adobe AIR this past weekend. It's a pretty slick application, and an example of AIR done right. read moreVidoop - the best password / captcha / security system on the web
April 11 2009
Vidoop is a User Experience company focused on web security. They offer a set of products and services to provide security to web users and developers, but they take a unique approach to security that provides a much better experience to end users than normal password or captcha systems. Vidoop… read moreAardvark - crowd sourcing answers to any question
April 11 2009
While out at SXSW earlier this year I ran into Rob Spiro from Aardvark. Aardvark is a crowd sourcing application that allows its user base to ask contextually based questions of each other through instant message or email without viewing personal information. Rob was nice enough to get me into… read moreSmashing Magazine on Adobe AIR
April 07 2009
Smashing Magazine has a pretty comprehensive collection of AIR resources and tutorials up on their site today. They feature all of the Adobe hosted stuff (official resources, support, free samples, etc.) as well as highlighting some of the better community resources including Scalenine.com, Aptana Studio, and the De MonsterDeBugger. read moreMarch 18 2009
Valleywag isn't entirely wrong - SXSW is one giant party. Just about every major tech company, from Facebook to Google to Frog Design to Digg to Tumblr to Blogher to...well, everyone, had a party, and most also had a major presence on the trade show floor and in the panels. read moreMarch 13 2009
I hear a lot of talk about "best practices" these days, and I'm sure you do too. As design has become a more visibly important differentiator for web development professionals and companies, understanding the "best way" to accomplish any given task has been a big deal, leading to a plethora… read moreDon't Join the "Cult of Done" - Stop Overcommitting
March 12 2009
This week some of my co-workers got really excited by the "Done Manifesto." I love a good manifesto, but I disagree with this one for several (good?) reasons and on a very gut-level. Here's why. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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