I think it would have been very interesting to see a quick demo of curl, especialy since I had never heard of it before.

Another thing my coworker who attended said is that she felt it would have been better to see some small homemade apps to see the code, or at least see some code snippets of the different languages for RIA.

I’m glad you enjoyed the feedback… I was a little afraid it might come off negative since I didn’t get much out of the presentation, but then again I wouldn’t have gotten much out of the groovy sessions yesterday either.

Great feedback on my session “Developing Rich Internet Applications”. This type of feedback helps me tune the presentation to better meet the needs of the audience.

You are absolutely right that it is really intended for people who know very little about RIA. However, you are also right that I need more interesting demos - I’ll make sure I have them ready before the Minneapolis show on March 14th.

The whole cURL/Curl thing is confusing. The Curl platform is a RIA product. The cURL open source project is a unix/linux utility for fetching data using URLs. They were created by different people for different purposes.

The Curl platform that I work with is actually a lot older than the cURL utility. My Curl (http://www.curl.com) was created in 1995, is trademarked in a dozen countries, and we’ve owned the domain curl.com since before the cURL project was started. The confusion is unfortunate, but the cURL utility is pretty useful for stuff completely different from the Curl RIA technology and I think (hope) they can co-exist.

Anyway, I hope that clarifies that issue. I’m looking forward to incorporating your feedback into my presentation so that next weekend I cooler demos to show people.

All the best,

Richard Monson-Haefel