Thoughts on SenchaCon 2011
I'm back at home after an exciting time at SenchaCon 2011, in Austin, Texas. What an event. A great bonding experience for the company, and an even better opportunity for us to spend time with customers and the community. I don't blog often enough about Sencha, but this was so much fun and so exciting that I had to toss out a few things that were my favorite from the show:
- The Sencha Platform: we articulated our platform for the web using Sencha technologies. Built on tools, frameworks and the cloud the Platform gives developers all they need to get up and running building world class web apps. So stoked about building out the Platform over the next year.
- Sencha.io, Ext JS 4.1, Sencha Touch 2, and Designer 2. Awesome launches for all of our products. Congrats to the teams for making it happen.
- Multi-device, Shared, and Enriched: our vision on how the future is going to shape web apps and content in general. Abe did a fantastic job articulating how the web will evolve over the next few years.
- BBQ at Stubbs! So much fun hanging out and have a drink with folks from the community, and an awesome live performance by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears. They'll be at the Fillmore next month if you want to catch them in San Francisco.
- Hackaton! I'm always amazed at what people can put together at a hackathon, and I'll brag just a bit: the teams at our hackaton produced some of the best apps I've ever seen at a one-day hackathon. Hats off to the community for kicking ass hacking on our products.
Presentation from Source Dev Con
I've uploaded my presentation from Sourc{ Dev Con last week, where I previewed Sencha.io, our new set of cloud services. They're also available on SlideShare if you want to browse them directly online.
Hello Sencha (& Goodbye Adobe)
This month I started a new job at Sencha, a small Silicon Valley startup that builds frameworks, tools, and services for the next web. I'm super-excited to join Sencha and to be working in a startup. Sencha has some killer frameworks (like Ext JS, Ext GWT and Sencha Touch) that make building amazing web content and web apps a breeze. The kinds of stuff you can do in the web with HTML and next generation browsers is truly stunning. I'll be running the product management team, helping define, guide and take to market all of our products. Very exciting stuff.
Adobe's been the smallest company I've worked for and I've always wanted to work in a real Valley startup. This was an amazing opportunity that crossed my path so I made the jump and I've said goodbye and thanks to Adobe. I look back at my years at Adobe very fondly -- there are great people, products and customers there and I was sad to say goodbye to all my friends there. Doing a startup that I believe in made sense for me, so it's a fond farewell to Adobe and to the Flash/AIR community. I'm super proud of the work we did shipping AIR for iPhone (aka Notus), AIR for TV (aka Stagecraft), the Mobile Distribution Service (aka Outbreak), and all the other projects, teams and efforts that continue to kick-ass.
Here's to the next adventure! (and yes, we're hiring!)