RJ Owen

RJ Owen

Biography

RJ Owen is a Senior Developer at Effective UI. RJ was the lead developer on projects for Dow Jones, Random House and the Discovery Channel and contributed to ebay Desktop and the Adobe Video Workshop. In late 2007 RJ was featured on the Scoble show discussing RIA development and is passionate about the way that software affects and can improve people's lives. He is certified as an Adobe Community expert in Flex and co-authored the O'Reilly shortcut "Flex 3 Early Evaluator." RJ runs a flex blog called A Better Experience and while it's not as popular as Rich's, it's still pretty good. RJ holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science, generally does well on standardized tests, and lives in Colorado with his wife Marty.

Blog

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360|Flex conference features InsideRIA speakers, November 30 2009
How to run a creative business, November 13 2009
Why the Adobe/RIM announcement is important, November 09 2009
The Kano Model and the Importance of User Experience, October 27 2009
How To Get a Job, September 04 2009
Adobe launches Wave, July 22 2009
IBM releases ILOG Elixir 2.5, July 22 2009
Flex 4 Overview Slides Posted, July 17 2009
Tibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript, July 01 2009
Tibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript, July 01 2009
Attention, Focus, and The Internet, May 22 2009
New York Times AIR reader released, May 11 2009
Flash vs. Silverlight on Smashing Magazine, May 11 2009
Aardvark - crowd sourcing answers to any question, April 11 2009
Vidoop - the best password / captcha / security system on the web, April 11 2009
Smashing Magazine on Adobe AIR, April 07 2009
SXSW Recap, March 18 2009
Forget Best Practices, March 13 2009
Don't Join the "Cult of Done" - Stop Overcommitting, March 12 2009
Ender Lib: faking threading in Flash, March 06 2009
ILOG Elixir 2.0 released, February 23 2009
BugQuash - help fix Flex, February 20 2009
LovelyCharts is open to all!, February 04 2009
CIA World Factbook in ILOG Elixir, version 2.0, February 04 2009
Vote for 360 Flex Sessions, January 17 2009
MAX 2008 NA talks online, January 12 2009
PhoneGap: my new favorite open-source project, December 29 2008
Why Ribbit is a Big Deal, December 22 2008
What makes a "User Experience expert"?, December 17 2008
An interview with Rombla creator Bob Lang, December 15 2008
Herff Jones launches eDesign online yearbook editor, December 10 2008
Rombla: powerful, online, WYSIWYG Flash-site builder, December 08 2008
Flex presentations at Adobe MAX, November 12 2008
Attention MAX attendees: get a 33% discount on Adobe product certification, November 07 2008
Nokia's "Music Almighty" Headset Competition, October 24 2008
Bruce Temkin on the importance of UX, October 24 2008
Get your Merapi-powered AIR app featured at MAX, October 20 2008
Efflex: Designer effects for Flex, October 20 2008
Scalenine "Skin to Win" contest winners announced, October 17 2008
New simulator uses 360 degree video / audio in Flash Player 10, October 15 2008
Joost comes to the web, enters online-TV / video fray, October 15 2008
Want to get showcased at MAX? ILOG Elixir wants to help., October 15 2008
SUMO Paint: PhotoShop and MS Paint's happy medium, October 15 2008
Skin to Win challenge ends Oct. 10, September 26 2008
Webmonkey creates forum for angsty iPhone developers, September 26 2008
Adobe CS4 "It's going to be Brilliant" video, September 25 2008
Adobe CS4 Gets Release Date, Cool Website, September 23 2008
An interview with KitchenSync creator, Mims Wright, September 23 2008
Using Trac? Try Traction., September 18 2008
Elixir 2.0 beta 2 released, September 03 2008
AIR, Java, and obots, September 03 2008
Google Chrome: The Comic, September 03 2008
Alan Cooper on Agile Software, September 03 2008
5 Lessons Every Web Developer Should Learn, August 21 2008
360Flex Day 1, August 19 2008
360Flex is on!, August 18 2008
Win MAX tickets, Macbook AIR, and more in Scalenine "Skin to Win" challenge, August 11 2008
David Heinemeier Hansson talks Simplicity, Process with UIRC, August 11 2008
5 Million People watch CS3 tutorials online, July 28 2008
New to AS3? Grant Skinner wants to help., July 24 2008
eBay desktop hits 1 million users, July 20 2008
Inside Iron Man: an interview with visualization supervisor, Kent Seki, July 14 2008
37signals stops support IE 6 (and me), July 10 2008
Ely Greenfield on Flex 4, July 04 2008
ILOG starts preview program for Elixir 2.0, July 03 2008
Flash becomes more searchable, July 01 2008
An interview with Lovely Charts creator, Jérôme Cordiez, July 01 2008
"When is good" gets better, June 28 2008
John Resig and Processing.js, June 18 2008
Obsessing.org - Processing.js for the lazy, June 18 2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 released, June 10 2008
Calling all Python devs: DARE is open source, June 06 2008
Microsoft integrates Silverlight, Rails and .NET, June 03 2008
GUIMark - a benchmarking tool for RIA technology, May 22 2008
Flash Player 10 instructions, API, May 22 2008
Touchless Brain-Sensor Interfaces, May 21 2008
Adobe Announces Flash Player 10, May 15 2008
Flash 10 compiler released for Flex, May 15 2008
Day of the Twitter, May 14 2008
Announcing the User Interface Resource Center, May 09 2008
Flex 4, states, and bad MXML, May 06 2008
Adobe launches "Open Screen", opens SWF and FLV formats, May 01 2008
Flex Builder Enhancements, April 28 2008
Follow the Web 2.0 Conference, April 24 2008
Flex compiler supports conditional compilation, April 23 2008
The Flex Show: Doing 3D right, April 23 2008
Ted Patrick's DARE for AIR, April 15 2008
"whenisgood" is almost perfect, April 04 2008
Microsoft announces support for SWF in Silverlight Gold, April 01 2008
searchme: a visual search RIA, April 01 2008

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