Author Archives: chrisk

November 17, 2005 by chrisk

Gliffy Beta Begins

The Gliffy closed beta has begun. We’ll slowly add more user to the closed beta in the next several weeks/months. Browse on over to http://www.gliffy.com and you can see our new home on the web. In fact, as of today, … Continue reading →

October 8, 2005 by chrisk

Standard Interoperability API

Sam at Writely kicks off a conversation about a common interoperability API between all these new applications popping up. We totally agree that such an API would make applications such as ours way more useful. Here are some examples of … Continue reading →

September 28, 2005 by chrisk

Simple answers to concerns about Office for the Web

My former co-worker and friend, Dave, had some common concerns about moving to an Office on the Web. I thought I’d chime in with my thoughts: > Maybe you don’t want your company/state secrets going across the internet and stored … Continue reading →

September 22, 2005 by chrisk

People are talking about the trend….

I read two blog posts recently, both from VC’s, which show folks are starting to grok the reality that collaborative internet based applications will soon be the tools of choice, replacing traditional desktop applications. Fred Wilson writes: “…my experience and … Continue reading →

September 16, 2005 by chrisk

Writely!

Writely is a web based word processor which is similar in concept to what we’re doing in many ways with Gliffy (our product), except we’re not building a word processor. I can’t believe how similar the names are…. too funny! … Continue reading →

September 9, 2005 by chrisk

www.silvertie.com launched!

This was truly a team effort. Lyla did a fantastic job with the design of our logo and web site. Also, Henry did some great work getting the HTML in order. Props to Dana for most of the content. Thanks … Continue reading →

August 20, 2005 by chrisk

Flash 8 Beta!

If you’re developing an OpenLaszlo application, and you’re worried about performance, like we are, you’ll be happy to know that Macromedia’s Flash Player 8 offers significant performance improvements. Click here to download the public beta.

August 20, 2005 by chrisk

OpenLaszlo Performance Tip: offsets

I’m not sure if Laszlo Systems would approve of this, but I found something that improves the speed of rendering views that are changing their dimensions or positions rapidly. In our application, we need to resize and move many views … Continue reading →

August 3, 2005 by chrisk

RIA’s will spawn a new breed of web based applications

Get ready folks, Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) will soon have you doing things on the web which you thought were only possible with desktop applications. These new web based applications will soon have you collaborating in ways you never thought … Continue reading →

July 15, 2005 by chrisk

Better Programing Practices: Pair Programming

In previous start-up companies I’ve worked at, it’s been implied that the official development process was something along the lines of Extreme Programming (XP) . In the book Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck, it is suggested that Pair Programming … Continue reading →