Riot Games launches League of Legends
Grio helped to develop many aspects of the platform for this MMO – initial reviews point to LOL becoming a huge success.
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Vook is Live Today
Grio developed the vook platform and Flex-based reader. Look for new vooks to come out on a regular basis.
Grio Inks a Vook Deal
Grio has been selected by Vook to develop an end-to-end technology that bring the worlds of video and books together on the Internet, through multiple applications, devices and platforms.
Scrum is like 20th Century Politics (Part 2 of 3)
Having toiled for years under the yoke of a brutal waterfallocracy, one bitter developer learns of management’s decision to adopt scrum and sees…a revolution.
Born is the Marxist, leader and friend to the common bit farmer.
The revolutionary swoons at scrum’s commitment to the “self-organizing team”. He visualizes an enervated bourgeois middle management, an empowered development base that directs company affairs, and an opportunity to play video games at work.
Think Services Turns to Grio to Enhance its Flagship Products
Grio proudly announced the signing of its consulting agreement with Think Services, a division of United Business Media. As part of this collaboration, Grio will assist by designing and introducing an agile software development methodology that fits Think Services' needs. In addition, Grio will be a key player in helping to build the company's next generation of products.
Scrum is like 20th Century Politics (Part 1 of 3)
Scrum is a bit like 20th century politics. You have your burn-down crazed fascists, your ground-up “power to the coding plebe” reds, greedy ladder climbers hiding under the guise of scrumocracy, and on very rare occasions… responsible elected representation.
Fascism
Let’s deal with the fascists first. Your average scrum doctrinaire falls back on phrases like “command and control” to describe the tired, archaic waterfallists. They should poke their own chests with that finger. I’m going to stick my neck out here and suggest that a large percentage of businesses practicing scrum err on the side of a Gestapo-like control. Why? Well let me answer you with a question: What do you think got your Product Owner or Director of Engineering their job in the first place?
Adding Sound Effects to Your Flex/AIR Application
It’s easy to add sounds to a Flex/Air application. Here we’ll see how to add whirrs, chirps, and bloops to your application’s button clicks and mouseovers. We’ll also see how to use Air’s EncryptedLocalStore to add mute and volume controls.
The first step is to create a sound manager for playing the sounds. The sound manager will make it possible to centrally apply user preferences like volume to all application sounds.
RiotGames Taps Grio for its Adobe AIR and Enterprise Java Expertise
RiotGames, an independent developer and publisher of premium online video games, today selected Grio to help develop its first major title: League of Legends – Clash of Fates. Grio will provide custom software development using Adobe Air and server-side Java technologies.