September 2008 Archives

By now I'm sure many of you have read Sean Corfield's post over at the ArgumentCollection, detailing what Broadchoice is building, and how they're building it. I'm not going to spend time describing it - the post covers it much better than I could - but I'm always excited to read stuff like this :

So what makes all of this tick? Front and central is the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and Flex providing a rich desktop experience. Communication with the server is provided by Adobe's open source remoting and messaging technology, BlazeDS, with the rest of the server stack completed by Groovy, Java, Spring and Hibernate. The real-time communication aspects of the Workspace are provided through Cocomo and Adobe's Hosted Services. We're very excited about the possibilities afforded us by Cocomo: audio/video conferencing, chat, presence, real-time collaboration on documents and so on.

BlazeDS, AIR, Flex, and Cocomo - definitely seems like a great foundation. :)

A little link-pumping to sum up :

• Interested in using Cocomo? Check out the MAX sessions - we've got a lot planned for November :) .
• Interested in helping build Cocomo? We have an open position for a Flex Ninja. Could it be you?

cheers!

Just wanted to take a second to highlight that our team is looking for a Flex rockstar to come join us. We're growing, and building some *very* cool new features, both in ConnectNow (the product), as well as Cocomo (the PaaS we built ConnectNow with).

So, if you're into Flex, AIR, "Cloud Computing", Real-Time Collaboration, multi-user social apps, client-server architecture, and are generally into pushing the envelope, we'd love to hear from you - apply here!

Also, for those of you contemplating MAX registrations, don't miss the 2 sessions we'll be giving on Cocomo.

nigel