Last night, I went to a Windows Phone 7 Developer event aptly name ‘Developer Happy Hour’ which was organized by the Flash New York Meetup. We met at a bar where some Microsoft evangelists showed up with a few phones that we could play with. Here are some of the impressions I got from talking to the employees and playing around with the phone.
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While I was at FITC 2010 I took the opportunity to quickly interview some of Big Names in the industry and hopefully get a perspective from different people about the Adobe products and their line of work. My first interview was with Val Head, Senior Designer & Developer at New Perspective in Pittsburgh, PA. She runs the Flashpitt conference and is co-manager of the Pittsburgh Adobe Flash User Group (PittMFUG).
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I’m an avid follower of Engadget, it’s my one stop site for electronic news. Lately, it’s been going a little crazy over the whole “Apple vs Flash” (I say ‘Flash’ and not ‘Adobe’ cause they are not against the company, just one of their products). A common trend I’ve been noticing is that no matter the background, there seems to be a lot of people bashing Flash.
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Flash vs Silverlight vs HTML5; a no-holds barred grudge match is brewing in this industry. It will divide developers and companies where there was little contention in the past. I doubt that this will end in a fatality, but the injuries will most likely fall to Adobe because of its current dominance in the field. Each technology has its pros and cons, and multiple providers can co-exist, but companies need a reason to choose one over another. I predict most of the debate will be based around the development process; ease of development, quick prototyping, effectiveness of tools offered, development environments, unit testing, system integration, as well as application design and planning. If a company can make great applications in less time, it means that they can make more money.
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Our next meet is confirmed. Please visit the event registration page.
We have 2 big speakers showing up:
Jonathan Snook from Snook.ca and
Julian Dolce from Fuel Industries, you can also catch him on his blog.
Hope to see many of you come out and show your support.
