Just a little Cooqy

Besides a few tweaks here and there, Cooqy has been pretty much running itself since my daughter was born last fall. This year, my free time away from Cooqy was used to provide consulting services, helping clients build Rich Internet Applications with OpenLaszlo.
During a recent period of vacationing and brooding, I have stumbled my […]

Wow, what a year so far! In early January, I started doing some consulting on the side to create Rich Internet Applications using OpenLaszlo. What started with one client has mushroomed into a dozen clients, growing to the point where I had to hire some part-time help. The projects have ranged […]

I was surprised to read this TechCrunch story about an upgrade to SmugMug’s interface this morning, since I have SmugMug’s CEO Don MacAskill’s blog in one of my Protopage RSS readers and would have expected to read about it there first. I’ve been watching SmugMug due to my interest in Amazon’s S3 and EC2 […]

Flash object embedding is a topic that is well documented on the web. This article does a nice run-down of the different techniques. Instead of re-hashing other people’s work in embedding Flash objects into web pages, I am concerning this article with the pragmatic considerations involved when distributing OpenLaszlo-generated Flash widgets. I […]

The New Year has been a busy one for me, thanks to several new customers asking me to provide custom OpenLaszlo-powered Flash widget development. It has been exciting working with other new ventures in their early stages. I find it noteworthy that all my new customers are utilizing widgets for e-commerce purposes. […]

Cooqy is developed with OpenLaszlo, a wonderful open-source tool for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s). OpenLaszlo v3.3.1 has proven to be a very stable and productive tool. I consider it to be the finest development tool I have used in my 20+ years of software development.
OpenLaszlo has truly made software development fun for […]

This article posted over at R/WW caught my attention. Actually, this is something I’ve been pondering since earlier this year when I added certain social features in Cooqy: Is their really anything such as “Social Shopping”?
If you define “Social Shopping” in the context of other social websites like MySpace, then there would need […]

I’ve only been blogging a couple of weeks now, but I am already a huge fan of MyBlogLog. You could say that I started blogging only after observing the MyBlogLog widget on TechCrunch. Blogging in isolation is rather pointless. MyBlogLog’s “reader widget” makes you feel you are not blogging alone, by providing […]

I just read a report that eBay has closed their China website, finally throwing in the towel and admitting defeat in what will surely become the world’s largest Internet market. Is this my 2007 Prediction #3 starting to come true?
Anyway you slice it, this is very bad news for eBay and Meg. You […]

Being a rampant piano-player and former synthesizer junkie back in the 80’s, I love the power of sound. Sound effects are frequently embedded within applications, like the familiar Windows startup theme, or the jingle of a new e-mail arrival. Used properly, sound effects can enhance the efficiency of using a computer, similar to […]