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June 5th, 2008

Ted Neward Interview [20:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Ted Neward interview
Silverlight seems like an amazing and novel thing: we have rich programming constructs that execute on the client. But this has been tried before. Welcome to the late 90s. On this show, Ted Neward explains what went wrong and why.

Useful links for the show:
Ted’s blog - http://blogs.tedneward.com/

Additional information - http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/03/top-5-reasons-why-java-applets-failed/

Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless

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1. Richard Monson-Haefel | June 25th, 2008 at 3:04 am

Excellent Show!

I’ve been working in Java since early 1996 and I’ve been an industry analyst writing about Rich Internet Application technologies since 2005. I thought I knew the history of the Java applet and is demise better than anyone, but I learned some new things from Ted which was great. Btw - I sometimes work with Ted on the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium. He never fails to impress.

Anyway, keep up the great work. I really enjoy the show. It’s excellent!

Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations
Curl, Inc.
2. admin | June 25th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Thanks. I’m glad you liked the show. Ted is an amazing source of information
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