Adobe Developer Olympiad - How to make your application interesting?
This entry was posted on 12/6/2006 3:57 PM and is filed under ADO,RIA.
Adobe India has announced the Adobe Developer Olympiad contest for students. Please check out: www.adobeindia.com and click on Adobe Developer Olympiad. This contest is intended to encourage the students from recognized Indian universities to build compeeling Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and components based on Adobe Flex and ColdFusion technologies.
What are the key steps to building a compelling RIA application or a component? Here are some tips:
1. Choose the right application that can benefit from being an RIA. and being visually rich. An application that serves its intended purpose effectively with a simple text interface may not benefit much if we make it jazzy. It may even make the user experience worse. On the other hand, applications that are inherently complex requiring multiple controls can benefit significantly from enhanced user experience through RIA technology. Flex provides a variety of components that can be used to build very rich interfaces in quick time
2. Choose a real world application. Higher the business value of the application, better it is. One strategy is to select some of the popular existing web sites that are not RIA based and redesign them using RIA. A good example is to redesign crickinfo.com where the existing design can be improved significantly using flex
3. Focus on innovative design. Identify which component would be suitable for what purpose eg, should we use tabs or accordian or ...
4. Think through both client side and server side design. ColdFusion is an excellent server side product that makes it very easy to build complex server side logic
5. Focus more on innovation. It is not necessary to build a product grade quality to the application for the purpose of this contest.
6. Contact ado@adobe.com for any help.
