Cliff Hall hosted his "PureMVC Pirate Radio Conference Takeover" tonight, and I must say it was very cool to hear how the framework is being put to the test in production. Technical (Acrobat Connect) difficulties aside, it's obvious that PureMVC is the real deal.

Thanks guys, for taking the time to talk about how you're using PureMVC.

A very notable aside by Brendan Lee was his plug about the Ribbit $100,000 Killer App Challenge. If you're interested in developing an app on the Ribbit Open Telephony Platform, you definitely need to take note of this developer contest. Cash is good.

I just read a little about the new beta technology that they have released today called Cocomo. It supposed to solve a bunch of problems, like "real-time social capabilities" and "real-time multi-user applications." Features of the Cocomo beta include things like whiteboards and chat.

Ok, Adobe. Help me out here. What's the point? Don't we already have all of those things in Flash Media Interactive Server and Livecycle Dataservices? What problem are you trying to solve exactly? The biggest difference I can see at first glance is that this is a hosted solution, but....we already have that too (ie Influxis). We've had the technology to build real-time apps with Flash and Flex for years now.

I'll investigate a little more, but man this seems a little redundant, and I definitely don't see the value here. Hopefully they aren't planning to ax FMS or LCDS. I would love to know more about where they are going with these different technologies. Sorry, I just don't understand the "big, big deal". They don't seem to compliment each other very well....they're almost in competition with themselves.

Off to learn more...

The concepts introduced around "Web 2.0" have shifted the way users interact with the web and their data. This presentation is an excellent vision of where the web is going (beyond rich user interfaces)...

I came across an interesting article on Techcrunch that discussed How to Build a Web App in Four Days. I really like this approach, and I've always felt it could be extremely successful given the right team and the right environment...

I noticed an idea in the article that I liked so I thought I'd blog it. The author makes a great suggestion to paint an entire wall with blackboard paint. I've used blackboard paint in the past in my daughter's room, and it works really well. If you have an extra (yellow) wall, and creative people around, you should give it a try....I'm sure they'd fill it up in no time.

As for the website that they built in four days, well, you can watch more about it here: