Doug McCune » interview http://dougmccune.com/blog A blog about Adobe Flex Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:34:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Interview up on InfoQ http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/30/interview-up-on-infoq/ http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/30/interview-up-on-infoq/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:13:21 +0000 Doug http://dougmccune.com/blog/?p=502 screenshot102 An interview I did with Jon Rose of InfoQ was just posted. I talk about my experience with Flex component development, the Flex commuity as a whole, and the current state of the enterprise software market in general. I’ll probably get some shit for some of my comments about enterprise software where I say that it’s all “almost uniformly horrible” :) I don’t really mean to call all enterprise software crap, it was more a broad strokes comment, the kind I’m apt to make after a few beers. So if you’re making awesome enterprise software, don’t be mad at me, keep doing awesome stuff.

Here’s just a small excerpt from the interview, read the entire thing at InfoQ.

Enterprise software is almost uniformly horrible, but there’s no reason for that. We’re seeing a “UX revolution” in RIA design, and for all the buzzword nonsense surrounding “user experience, ” there’s something real happening in terms of the overall quality of the experience delivered by RIAs. We’ve seen some really great and innovative work in consumer RIAs, with a trend toward simple and intuitive interfaces. And yet in enterprise software this trend has barely even begun, it’s all still complex. I want to see enterprise applications treated like consumer apps, with the same attention to the user experience and with a consistent drive to simplify and make everything more intuitive. Complex systems don’t have to be presented with confusing software. But it takes more work to figure out the simple, elegant solution. It’s far cheaper and faster to make bad complex software than good simple software.

]]> http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/30/interview-up-on-infoq/feed/ 3 Flex and Guns on Flasher Magazine http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/01/31/flex-and-guns-on-flasher-magazine/ http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/01/31/flex-and-guns-on-flasher-magazine/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:07:46 +0000 Doug http://dougmccune.com/blog/?p=404 Lee Brimleow just posted issue #2 of his sweet Flasher Magazine video mag. For this issue Lee interviewed me about Flex development, what I hate about the Flex SDK, what I think about Flash vs Flex. And then after the interview we went to shoot handguns at a shooting range in San Francisco :) Check it out, I hope you enjoy:

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This issue also includes interviews with Phillip Kerman and Robert Reinhardt.

Thanks to Lee for giving me the opportunity to do the interview, and for putting rounds of ammo on the Adobe corporate credit card!

Oh yeah, and here’s a quick still shot from the video’s intro sequence. I’m so proud:

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