Where did the last few month go?

I can’t believe it’s 2010 and my last entry was in October.

I’ve been maxed out working on the future roadmap of the Altio and technology.

Altio 5.3 was released in September, and Altio 5.4 will come out before March this year. Altio 5.4 is likely to be the last major release of Altio using Java Applets for the front end. Altio 6 will retain the Presentation Server backend but the user interface is primarily going to be Adobe Flash, developed using Adobe Flex.

This means that for 2010 the toolset for user interface development using Altio will be Java Applets, Adobe Flex and HTML. The long term future will be HTML/JavaScript, but it will be a case of seeing where Google and other big players take HTML5.

The key changes to the Altio framework will be more attention on data visualisation for specific business domains such as Foreign Exchange trading and compliance.

I can’t see 2010 being any less challenging than 2009, and let’s face it life would be boring without challenges to overcome.

Interesting links

Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications

ScrumButs Are the Best Part of Scrum

How Will You Make a Difference in 2010?

A roundup of Altio 2007

Wow, what a year 2007 was. It's been a hard year trying to achieve major things, and 2008 has been busy hence late delivery of this message.


I've been in charge of a lot of projects this year including

• deliverying a Graph tool and associated application for displaying relationships in data. The application is used by Compliance officers in big banks to assist in tracking suspicious transactions and relationships.
  


• the next version of Altio using Java Swing for the main infrastructure. Altio as a product has been around for a while and we are now re-positioning ourselves to challange Adobe Flex as a tool for creating rich web applications.
  

As well as the projects I've been in charge of the profesional services including recruitment and working with partners to design new system architecture (SOA etc) as well as talks about Altio. I'm really looking forward to 2008 when Altio 5.2 is released which will have the new designer and new controls, plus a simpler way of adding your own Java controls.