The Pixel Code » RIA http://www.thepixelcode.com Design / Develop / Inspiration by Mohammed Khan Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:45:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Delivering RIA using 5D Process http://www.thepixelcode.com/presentations/delivering-ria-using-5d-process http://www.thepixelcode.com/presentations/delivering-ria-using-5d-process#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:40:51 +0000 Mohammed Khan http://www.thepixelcode.com/?p=134 At Esberi (the place where I work), a 5D process is used to develop RIA, but on a personal note, I believe processes are for large organizations where the team size is large and it would be necessary then to have processes, workflows or information exchange protocols. For smaller teams, the motive behind organization should be to harness creativity and productivity. But does this mean I disown the process (in fact I drafted the illustrations for it) which Esberi has, well not. When working with clients who are more like Outsourcing managers, Project managers, or any manager oriented contact, processes like 5D helps to deliver in systematic approach which managers usually would like to. This gives the client side managers the ability to track progress at each level, but at times in my own personal experience, the client side managers bring along their own workflows and deliverable’s standards.

But when working with clients, where the contact is more of developer or designer profile, its always to better speak in their language and adapt around their working environment, small things like SVN vs CVS, Illustrator vs Photoshop, matter alot. Its always fun to work with these kinds of profile as you learns and share alot with like minded people. And usually this kind of client profile are small design firms or startups or individual consultants. This sort of work also helps to be Agile, try SCRUM and Waterfall, sometime at end we wind up mixing all, we realize this only during the bar hangout session (my favorite is Orangina) after the project closure meets.

Anyways, I was invited at the RIAaction 2009 event in Singapore to speak on how 5D process helps to deliver RIA, apart from getting a chance to speak at this event, I got also a chance to evaluate the Big 3 RIA technologies, as the event was sponsored by Microsoft, Google and Adobe, it was a unique opportunity to look at all three RIA platforms under one roof, Flash, Silverligth and GWT.

Delivering RIA Using 5D Process

Sorry attaching the audio commentary makes the file too large, also usually I sound more like a beaten up Homer.

]]> http://www.thepixelcode.com/presentations/delivering-ria-using-5d-process/feed 0 A Pixel born out of a Code http://www.thepixelcode.com/general/a-pixel-born-out-of-a-code http://www.thepixelcode.com/general/a-pixel-born-out-of-a-code#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:46:20 +0000 Mohammed Khan http://thepixelcode.com/?p=40 Been working for last three years with RIA platforms, it was hard to share stuff at personal level with the community, though I was posting at my company’s blog engine, satisfaction never came. The thought of creating a personal blog site has been around for last one year on my mind, but work always kept me away from thinking and organizing ideas for the blog. Finally this month (my workload was a bit at ease, thanks to slowdown), I made up to have one in place.

The first thing to work was on the content theme, what will I share with the community and how will I organize it ? It was not easy for me to figure out because by profession I work in capacity of Project Director for RIA domain, but by virtues I design apps and hardware interfaces, and sail out the development. So the managerial and developer instincts contradicted within me.

Finally after some help from friends at work in form of a brainstorm session over the coffee table helped me shape the blog. Right from domain name to tag line, to content, I had to evolve my thoughts around the end users. Because whatever you do on web has to be shaped according the user’s perspective, even if it gonna be your own personal blog. User centric thinking has always helped me to architect and deliver the right solution to clients, and I believe its gonna be the same story here. If I can’t deliver content according the user’s need then I don’t think this blog should exist. What disturbs now as I write is, “Isn’t blog suppose to be medium of personal expression ?”, and the justification my mind throws to me is “Dude you are not working on a social blog, its gonna be technical, only place where you can express is in the Design category”. This is fine with me, in coming time I would bring out my thoughts on design and development here and I wouldn’t be satisfied till there isn’t any feedback, which I believe will help me refine my content. So kindly comment and lets have meaningful discussions !!!

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