Dekoh
Java-driven Rich Internet Applications
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is catching on very well. It is easy to appreciate the need to have an integrated desktop - web experience for all the good things such applications can bring.
However, in building RIA, two things from the web development experience become important:
Being cross-platform and not to exclude anyone (as the web does [...]
Web 2.0 Expo, interactions were excellent
Today we ended the Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco with a great feeling.
For Dekoh this show was an important milestone, the unveiling of the product to the public for the first time. We reached a thousand downloads on just the first day.
The feedback and interactions with a wide cross-section of people was very useful [...]
Dekoh announces public alpha at Web 2.0 Expo
Dekoh is starting public alpha program to get feedback from larger community.
We are very excited to show to people at the Web2.0 Expo (San Francisco) starting tomorrow. If you are at the show, drop by at booth number 330 for a demo or discussion with us.
Here is a quick look at the applications we will [...]
Flash or Java. Which is better?
Ed Burnette has written a blog post Is Flash better than Java? there is a lot of interesting discussion happening on the thread. The comparison needs to be sliced and seen from various angles.
Flash and Java is not apples-apples comparison
Flash is most popular for delivering media content. Most of Flash content is delivered thru browsers. [...]
Desktop web applications and browser debate
In the last week there has been a lot of debate about Desktop RIA applications. Starting with Alex’s article on Read/Write web Adobe Apollo - On A Collision Course With Web Browsers and then a discussion Which is better, an offline Web App or an online Desktop App?. There were other articles including Zimbra offline [...]
Evolution of Dekoh idea
Jay Fortner wrote this article Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop/Web Platform on Read/Write web. One observation he made was “…makes it hard to describe what Dekoh is in a sentence”. He is probably right to some extent because Dekoh offers several different things, at a first glance it appears it is doing too many things. [...]
Dekoh Photos screencast
I made my first attempt at recording a video! The demo shows Dekoh photos application features. This is a AJAX application running on the desktop. Some highlights:
Tagging, commenting, sharing features come as part of the platform, it is not coded in the photos application. Dekoh portal API and widgets are used to get this functionality [...]
Bringing the best of Desktop and Web together
The main idea of Dekoh is to bring the best of features on Desktop and Web to end users and developers. Jay in his presentation had a nice slide that captures this.
Here is a brief description:
Universal Data: Applications can blend data on their file system with data on the web (website APIs) in their applications.
Control [...]
Dekoh press meet in Bangalore
Some exciting interaction at the press meet today. Technology journalists had a lot of questions about Dekoh — mostly to do with the seamless movement between the web and desktop that Dekoh promises — , and were eager to get their hands on the new product. The expectations are clearly rising. Check out the [...]
Architecture of a Desktop RIA platform
There are many pieces to the puzzle of building an integrated desktop and web application platform. Ted has interesting posting today on this and Ryan has also commented on it.
Here is my opinion on what the architecture of such a platform could be and approaches taken by Dekoh and Apollo (from Adobe).
1. Cross-OS base: Required [...]
