Who You Calling A Jesse?

In my lost week last week Opera went and released version 4 of its Opera Mini browser in Beta. Their new features list sums up all there is to love about it. It loads the pages much like the Symbian Webkit browser but its fast, easy, and sorta looks like what the iPhone browsing quality does on the Apple site. The nice thing is that Opera offers a browser for everyone, not just a device.

I loaded it on my E62 and gave it a try over the weekend. What I really love about this is that it is a solid browser, no mobile version rendering. This should mean you can build a decent looking small screen version that will run nicely in your mobile device. What I need to do this week or next is try out the rendering and see what I can and can’t do.

Overall I really like the beta. With the iPhone coming the end of the week I really do think the mobile browsers are going to get used a lot more. I am just wondering how to raise awareness about Opera? Is it worth it? Should Adobe drop the Flash mobile and get me a plug in for the mobile browsers?

The past week is a bit of a blur but I figure I should update this thing with what has been going on. First off TODCon 2007. With a ratio of one Adobe person to every nine (or so) attendees it was a great opportunity for folks to speak their minds to the big red A. Along with the great line up of presenters and attendees made it another successful conference.

For those that have never been, TODCon is a small (110-125 people) conference of web folks that are mostly Dreamweaver and Flash enthusiasts (although that seems to be changing). It is a lot like an organized BarCamp with its atmosphere of collaboration and discussion. Thanks again Ray for putting it on, looking forward to TODCon 2008!

Around here I managed to just now get my head above water. Still haven’t caught up on three weeks of email and I doubt I ever will. In CPA we are close to putting Chatter and Kiwi into RubyForge. There are just some authentication issues to work out, you will need to plug kiwi into your LDAP or use kiwi’s database authentication in order to have Chatter work for you. For UW folks please do not install your own Kiwi. We are fixing the API key management so you can just use the one we have. It will support the whole log in once, have access to all kiwi enabled apps, as well. We just need to slowly modify our apps to support it.

Anyway, I will post here when we have that done (in the next few days).

After a two week vacation across the Atlantic visiting the inlaws and touring the English countryside I am now in sunny Las Vegas attending and presenting at TODCon. Today opens up with a presentation from Greg Rewis of Adobe talking about CS3 integration and the future. The day is packed with some great presentations and there are quite a few Adobe folks lurking around and talking to folks. Should be a great couple of days in Vegas!

I will probably post a daily summary of events once I have my presentation all polished up ;)