Bill Appleton is a leading expert on the client-side use of cloud services and the development of rich media authoring tools. He has designed and written approximately three dozen professional software publications including the first rich media authoring tool World Builder, the ground breaking multimedia programming language SuperCard, the number one best-selling CD-ROM Titanic: Adventure out of Time, the DreamFactory Player for consuming cloud services, the first AppExchange application DreamTeam, and the first third party enterprise applications for Intuit WorkPlace, Cisco Webex Connect, and Microsoft Windows Azure. He previously served as President of the CD-ROM publishing company CyberFlix, and has worked closely with Disney, Paramount, Viacom and Bandai to build creative vehicles for content development. Many leading computer publications and mainstream magazines have featured Bill’s work, including People Magazine, Newsweek, and US News and World Report.
Bill started working with cloud services more than ten years ago, back in the XML-RPC days before SOAP. Since then, as CTO of DreamFactory Software, Bill and team have done low level integration work with all the modern cloud platforms including salesforce.com, Intuit Partner Platform, Cisco Webex Connect, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services. Under the circumstances, he has lots of experience evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the various platforms, and plenty of first hand information about what’s really going on under the hood. Visit the Cloud Warrior blog for information on speed comparisons, industry analysis, marketplace differences, software development issues, and all your up to date information straight from the trenches of cloud computing.