Karl Johnson
My thoughts on the RIA world
Wednesday December 13, 2006
Joining the blog ranks at Cynergy
It's blog time!
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Karl Johnson and I am a RIA developer, specializing in Adobe Flex development, with Cynergy Systems in Washington, DC. I am new to posting on the Cynergy blogs, but have been working directly with Flex 1.5 and 2.0 for over a year now with Cynergy. You may have seen me around on flexcoders or met me at one of the tradeshows we have sponsored this year. If not, I hope to!
It has been a crazy, fun year in the RIA world. Flex adoption has exploded! Cynergy has been steadily growing and we have an amazing team of talented RIA developers, as well as diverse backend developers (.NET, Java, CF, etc), that allow us to put together killer rich internet applications for our clients - front to back. Not that my blog is meant to be an advertising campaign, but after representing Cynergy at Flex Seminar in NYC and AJAXWorld/RIA Conference in San Jose, CA, I feel like I need to quickly speak to something that several people seem to have a misconception about. You see...Cynergy has been a major player in the Flex arena, and we take great pride in supporting the development community via Flexcoders and trying to help build the Flex market as much as possible. We have delivered some sweet looking (and acting), rich apps for HUGE clients. All of these great things have lead to the community thinking that we are a UI development company. Now that is not necessarily a bad thing to be - but Cynergy also takes pride in putting together systems from front to back, or soup to nuts if you will. Killer apps not only have killer front-ends, but must also have killer, efficient and smart backends. That is where I personally feel like we really excel; putting it all together.
But anyway, I now feel like this has been too much of a marketing blog and I want to get away from that - this blog is meant to be informative and helpful to those in the RIA community. My first post (sometime soon) will be on integrating Yahoo! Maps Flex components into a Flex 2.0 app. This is much trickier than you may think, because Yahoo!'s components are Flex 1.5 only. I have done this a way I think you will find a bit easier for the average Flex guy and I want to share it with the community.
But until then...keep coding and making the internet a better place to be, one rich app at a time!
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