Introducing InsideRIA.com--New from O'Reilly Media

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Introducing InsideRIA.com--New from O'Reilly Media
Bringing the RIA Community Together

Sebastopol, CA--Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are shaping the Web
today. Love them or hate them, if you're working on the Web, you'll want
to understand them. And a new online website announced this week,
InsideRIA.com, is the premiere community site for all things RIA, created
specifically for web developers, architects, programmers, designers, or
anyone else who makes the Web their business.

"Our goal is to create an invaluable resource for information on the
ever-changing state of design and development of rich Internet
applications (RIAs)." explained Steve Weiss, executive editor at O'Reilly
Media. "We've started with general topic areas on Design, Development, and
Standards, which will feature blog posts and multimedia content."

InsideRIA.com was developed by O'Reilly and sponsored by Adobe Systems.

The new online community brings some of the leading members of the RIA
community together. Visitors are encouraged to engage with them in an
ongoing narrative about where RIA technology is headed. 

Featured blogs by RIA experts include:

-Andre Charland, InsideRIA's lead blogger; co-founder and CEO at Nitobi
Inc., covers all aspects of RIA design and development
-Rich Tretola, Inside RIA's community manager; expert on Adobe® AIR and
Adobe® Flex®
-Tony MacDonnell, founder of Teknision Inc, a company that specializes in
developing RIAs and Rich Media experiences
-Jonathan Snook, co-author of "Accelerated DOM Scripting" and "The Art and
Science of CSS"
-Andy Trice, who specializes in data visualization, client-server
architectures, Object-Oriented principles, and rich application
development
-Gabor Vida, president of Canadian RIA development firm Teknision
-Ray Camden, long-time ColdFusion expert; co-authored numerous ColdFusion
books including the "ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit," and has
contributed to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update and the ColdFusion
Developers Journal
-Dave Tucker, a web and application developer at Georgia Tech

More blogging voices and content categories will be added monthly,
including cross-platform topics.

Weiss adds that InsideRIA hosts much more than opinions-based blogging,
focusing as well on being the first-stop resource for developers to stay
on top of news, events, opinions, and learning. Plans call for a minimum
of two new feature articles each month, plus series-based tutorials,
screencasts, podcasts, and video. The first feature article is by
ActionScript maven and the author of "Essential ActionScript 3.0"
(O'Reilly, $54.99) Colin Moock; a 20-part series on Enterprise Flex
development, by Effective UI's Tony Hillerson is also underway.

So where's this all headed? "Help us find out," added Steve Weiss. "Join
us and tell your colleagues. We can't wait to see you online."

For more information, see:
http://insideRIA.com

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