I get asked this question a lot:
“So, what exactly do you do at your job?“
The most common answer is usually me fumbling through what a surface is, multi-touch, and ending with something about consulting, cool projects, and NDA agreements. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, since a video is between 30-60 frames per second, that’s gotta be about a book right there, so I figured I’d give you a taste of what I do at my main full time job.
A bit of background on the demo; You may remember this post about building a really simple P2P network, and is the foundation of what we were eventually building out here. The framework itself is built out into three distinct layers, each independent of each other and interchangeable. For instance, the demo here is showing a P2P network layer, which is very nice for small demos because there is very little configuration required. However, because this layer is independent of the others it would be trivial to write an enterprise level sever based implementation that could be used to conduct sessions anywhere in the world.
The second layer is the framework that we’ve built up to handle the logic of managing a remote session, adding / removing remotable objects, synchronization, passing through commands, and routing commands from the network up to the individual remotable objects. The final layer is the remoting piece individual controls. It’s a layer of logic that is attached onto existing controls. The cool factor of the way this is built is it allows for a huge degree of flexibility at a control level if you need it, but also the power of being able to drop in a few lines of code and have objects magically start controlling and presenting.
Hope you enjoyed it, and let me know what you think!
- Paul Rohde
