Dave Wolf
The Experience Matters. User-Centric Development.
Wednesday July 02, 2008
Riding the Line - Cynergy makes Bosh seriously scream in Silverlight
See, we’re pretty unique. First off we’re just about the only firm around that operates both an Adobe and a Microsoft design and development practice. That was key when the project was to re-develop an existing Flash based app and bring it to a new...
Wednesday June 25, 2008
Taking it to the MAX
I am very proud to announce that Cynergy is the Platinum Sponsor for Adobe’s MAX conference this November in San Francisco. We’ve been in the RIA space since its beginnings, as Adobe products like Flex and AIR became the foundation for what has become the...
Thursday January 03, 2008
Realistic and relevant. Introducing Cynergy Labs
The New Year holiday is always a time for reflection. This year was an explosive one here at Cynergy, both in the growth of the company and our contribution to the Rich Internet Application community. Read more...
Monday November 26, 2007
5 Teams. 3 Days. One incredible Party.
Designers, developers, 72 hours, energy drinks and eventually one winner. Take that and wrap it up with one of the hottest nightclubs in Los Angeles and you get the Phizzpop Design Challenge . Cynergy was selected to join 4 other teams in a battle of...
Monday August 06, 2007
Parties, Presentations & Philanthropy at 360|Flex
We are just a week away from the second 360|Flex conference and expo in the Emerald City of Seattle. All of us here at Cynergy are seriously stoked to be a huge part of helping the community to come out and be a part some of the best minds in the world on Flex brain dumping right into your grey matter. Just check out the list of speakers and their sessions and you'll see what I mean.
If you haven't registered you still have a week left! As a former Seattleite I could drone on for hours about the incredible sights to see, food to eat, and places to go.Except were all coming here for one thing, serious Flex RIA love.
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From day one we've believed that what it means to be a real market leader is to give back to the community. That's exactly why we beat down the door to become the Diamond Sponsor for this show where we could not only make sure that incredible conferences like 360|Flex can be delivered at incredible prices, but we can invest back into the community through Philanthropy...Oh yeah and we can throw some awesome parties too!
Lets start with the parties!
Monday night 360|Flex will be hosting a recruiting party from 6-8pm on the terrace. Well, we decided all good parties need one thing... An exclusive after-party. Like all exclusive parties, this one is invite only and the location is a Big Fat Secret.We decided to call it, the Big Fat Secret Party. So, how do you get in? Come to that recruiting party holding your resume and find the Cynergy crew. They'll be wearing the bright red shirts. Walk up, introduce yourself, hand over your resume and talk about what you think an incredible place to work would be like and listen to the Cynergy folks talk about why at Cynergy we say, You're going to love it here.If you think you'd love it here, ask for an invite. Pretty easy eh?
Onto the presentations!
Monday @ 10am Aaron Adams who heads up Cynergy's award winning User Experience Group will present Design Eye for the Dev Guy or how not to wanna strangle your designers and how to build simply stunning RIAs. Aaron might be the industry expert in the Designer to Developer Workflow.
Monday @ 1pm Karl Johnson will be showing some RIA apps like you've never seen.Better yet, hes going to be showing off how they were designed, integrated and actually built.You think Flex looks like Flex? You think pre-built skins are hot? You ain't seen nothing yet. Oh yeah and you get to find out what the title TBD actually means!
Monday @ 4pm Andy Trice will be digging into the drawing API and showing off things you seriously never thought were possible in Flex. Real time visualization of complex data sets and how some *real* customers rolled out *real* applications that made a *real* difference.
Monday @4pm Yours truly will be going into how you build out a world-class RIA development team. It wasn't easy but we re-invented a whole company to do nothing but design, built and deploy RIAs and I want to tell you how we did it. Trust me, it opens eyes.
Finally Philanthropy
Many of you might have heard about the Charity Code Jam going on for Northwest Harvest. Well at Cynergy the second we heard about this, we knew we had to be a huge part of making it happen. We will be donating the services of our User Experience Group to lead the design work, our Technical Leads to help drive the development and we will donate the tools and processes that have made our LookFirst approach to developing serious RIAs possible including our Wiki and our integrated issue management system. If you want to help an incredible cause and get a real world view of how a world class RIA team works, come to the Jam and donate you time and your mad coding skills.
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Seven days and counting.Hey, and if you wanna just chat, drop me a line, send me a text message, or hit me up on Twiter. See you in Seattle!
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Thursday April 19, 2007
Wake up and see the Silverlight
Microsoft’s announcement of the official naming of “the technology formerly known as WPF/E” may have looked to a lot of pundits like nothing but a tiny glimmer of vaporware and hype as Microsoft tries to “copycat” Flash. The reality is that instead this...
Friday March 02, 2007
Cynergy. Adobe. Apollo. NYC. Do not miss this!
Eighteen days and counting to AjaxWorld 2007 the agenda has gone final including an amazing series of sessions being delivered by Cynergy and Adobe including never before seen Apollo demos and applications as well as never before seen frameworks including...
Monday February 19, 2007
Be our guest in NYC. See Apollo. Oh and here is $700
Today marks a very interesting collision of dates. It is both the two year anniversary of when Jesse James Garret coined the phrase "AJAX" and it is exactly 30 days from AjaxWorld 2007 in NYC . Cynergy has been a founding sponsor of AjaxWorld and we have...
Happy Birthday AJAX! Now what?
AJAX turned two this weekend. Well, OK, the word AJAX turned two this weekend. Regardless of what you think about AJAX it's impossible to deny the disruption that the whole Rich Internet Application segment has made on how we look at applications and what we...
Wednesday January 31, 2007
I'll show you mine... CynergyTV Premier Episode:The Flex Showcase
After much design, development and a steady dose of caffeine I am excited to announce the release of Cynergy TV, a Flex 2 RIA that will be the delivery channel for a variety of showcases, examples and tutorials created by Cynergy and dedicated to the RIA...
Monday January 15, 2007
It takes a village
Go out and take a survey of development teams and their first foray into developing a Rich Internet Application, regardless of technologies (Flex, Ajax, WPF/E) and my guess is you will hear stories of pain, misery and failure. Why? Developing RIA’s is really...
Friday October 20, 2006
YAGC? Time to add the rich back into RIA
Cynergy was the platinum sponsor of AjaxWorld 2006 two weeks ago. As I was walking the show floor it really hit me how the majority of folks exhibiting there were showing "widgets" or visual controls. More interesting was that the vast majority of these...
Friday September 29, 2006
Living in DENIAL with AJAX
With one acronym Garrett was able to take what had been nothing more then a fairly unknown JavaScript function and give it a life of its own. Once Google used AJAX to mimic what is nothing more than a simple and common “rich client” control like the combo box...
Friday September 08, 2006
Bits and bytes rather than chits and chats
I think the hardest part of our jobs as developers is that we are way more comfortable working with bits and bytes rather than chits and chats. What I mean is that most developers would rather read a document then sit down and actually talk to a user. The...
Tuesday August 22, 2006
Keeping it real
A week later and after a bunch of reflection I have to say I thought the Real World Flex Seminar went incredibly well. Read more...
