Moxie Zhang

Biography

Moxie Zhang is an Enterprise Solution Architect at ESRI. His background consists of series of transitions over 20 years, from BIOS hacker, network engineer, to DBA, Windows developer, Java developer, Open Source practitioner and RIA Evangelist. His role in career cycles around consultant, enterprise architect and project manager. His works received awards such as NASA Software Innovation Award for a SOA framework at JPL. Aside from working in applying geo spatial technologies in large, he blogs at Flex RIA and, as a RIA editor of InfoQ.com, reports the latest news in the RIA world.

Blog

Flex GeoWeb with Yahoo AS3 Services

April 11 2008

Web map has become an important utility of our daily life. We use it to plan a trip for directions, we use it to virtually walk around a city in 3D, we use it to find an apartment or a house from map mashup applications and so on. What if… read more

Silverlight 2.0 Mashup with Flickr and Virtual Earth

March 14 2008

Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 at MIX08 last week. Comparing to Silverlight 1.1, the 2.0 beta 1 release has significant improvements and changes. To evaluate the state of Silverlight 2.0 as a RIA development tool, I wrote a mashup... read more

Hello, Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX

February 28 2008

The RIA world has been seeing intensified competition since last year's releases of Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX, which joined the Adobe Flex/AIR to become the major RIA development platforms. Even though all three of them intent to reach the the same goal, richer user experience and more creative media… read more