In my February roundup I mentioned the Google Social Graph API, well the AltioLive development team decided to go ahead and put a demo together. It can be found at http://tinyurl.com/64dkc9.
The only comment I have is that blogger blog’s seem to be difficult to analyse. IMHO this is strange because Google Social API and Blogger are both Google products. So if you enter http://thompson-web.blogspot.com/ not a lot happens but if you enter http://www.heychinaski.com/blog/ it does just what’s expected and finds a social network. I suppose it could be argued I have no social life which is why no network appears for me,

See also Jim’s blog entry - “Google Social API demo in AltioLive”.

NOTE: The tinyurl mentioned above may no longer point to the demo in the future as he demo may only be available through the Altio website

Several times recently I’ve been involved in discussions about project estimation, sometimes with project managers and other times in general conversation about project failure. Here is my opinion on why both duration and effort are important in estimation and neither can be ignored. This my personal opinion and every project and organisation may differ and should be treated appropriately by using the correct project management and software design methods.

For more information see Gary’s blog at http://thompson-web.blogspot.com/2008/04/project-estimation-duration-effort-and.html

Since 2003 AltioLive has had the ability to work with SOAP web services but we only have simple examples that use primitive variables. Recent professional service projects have required the use of Web Services which use complex input and output data types so I thought I would make some notes here before a more formal document is produced.

AltioLive was developed to make integration with SOA as simple as possible, but because of the broad set of functionality available in AltioLive it is not always obvious how a certain implement a specific solution. This note will highlight how to use AltioLive to work with SOAP messages and WSDL’s.

For more information see Gary’s blog at http://thompson-web.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-complex-web-services-in-altio.html

Tom Martin one of the Altio development team put together a LastFM demo using the Altio Graph control, you can see Tom’s blog entry here Altio Last FM demo.

Is there a place of Applets in Web 2.0?

Just to back up my faith in RIA technology and Applets I decided to put Altio forward for a talk at JavaOne 2008, and I guess people want to listen to me an Jim Crossley (Product Manager and Architect at Altio) spend 60 mins talking about Applets. Actually Jim is the real techie so he will do most of the talking.

So if you happen to be in San Franciso 6 - 9 May 2008 come visit us and join the debate on what makes a good RIA or more specifically a Rich Enterprise Application (REA).