I always knew that I’ll buy an iPad in April. What I didn’t know would it be what for. I was trying to find an iPad function that can’t be easily done with a laptop.  The problem solved: I’ll sleep with it! No kidding.No

Last week, I've presented on Flex modules and libraries at 360flex in San Jose, CA. This talk brought lots of developers to the room. After this  80-minute presentation I've been answering questions for another 25 minutes. Such an unexpe

Community Keynote at #360flex is about to start to the sounds of beat sequences. Why hire a DJ if Sean Moore, a remote Flex developer can call in via Skype from Colorado with video camera on and start spinning his disks? Tom is projecting the video o

On Tuesday, I’ve attended a couple of panels and 2.5 sessions. The morning panel was titled “Principles of RIA” and was about bringing animation and effects to your RIA to make it more engaging. For some reason it didn’t get m

I’ve arrived to San Jose,CA late on Sunday. By coincidence, there were three other speakers on the same plane from New York: Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom, and Jeff Tapper.  A short taxi ride to Marriott and one of the conference organizers,

There are two types of Web applications: those that care about their discoverability and those that don’t.If you are developing a Web application in Flash or Flex for, say, financial advisers (FA) of a brokerage house or salesmen of an insuranc

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The first two weeks of March I’ll be vacationing in training rooms – teaching and learning Flex.  I used the word vacationing because I love this part of my work the most. March 1-2: Advanced Master Class on Flex in Brussels, Belgium

When people are screaming, "I won't use the soft unless it's open sourced", they actually mean the following "I won't to use the soft unless is free and readily supported by authors". People just forget that open sourc

The project plan is approved. The budget is in place. Deliverables of phase 1, 2 and 3 are defined. Developers started working. The business analyst Romeo analyzes the business and meet with end users on daily basis. The Project manager, Lord Montagu

Yesterday, I finished my dinner in a French restaurant with traditional crème brulee. This time I’ve also ordered a small glass of sauterne wine. Then we went to our friend’s house to polish it with some good old port.  But no

The recent announcement of iPad has ignited yet another wave of emotional discussions around the role of Flash Player in the evolution of mankind.  People easily take sides and everyone seems to know what’s right and what’s wrong.&nb

Here's yet another well written blog by Rachel Luxemburg that looks like a petition to Steve Jobs. So? Such write-ups  won't have any effect on the Apple's decision about Flash Player.  It's a cold blooded decision, and if

I’m proud to consider myself an upper middle class American. Why am I so proud about it? Because I haven’t been born in an upper middle class American family. I came to the USA 18 years ago with $200 in my pocket on a visitor’s visa

The time of my winter vacation has arrived. Have you ever had a lower back pain that lasted for two weeks right before your skiing vacation? The question was if those stupid muscles are needed while skiing  on the slopes of Alps.Our plane with a

I knew Joe since he was a kid. Today he’s 26, and here’s Joe’s story. Four years ago Joe’s got his BS degree in Computer Science. Joe always loved programming games and decided to start his career in a gaming industry. But her

I've read an interesting article by Felipe Gaucho called "Good Java developers deserve better salaries ", where he states that employers have to increase salaries for Java developers.  Unfortunately, in the market economies such d

After teaching our popular advanced Flex master class in New York, Boston, Toronto, London, and Moscow, we are hitting the beer capital of the world: Brussels, Belgium. This class is scheduled for the first days of March, and we hope that Flex 4 will

Recorded a new episode for the No BS IT audio podcast: "Whores, pimps, and other IT resources": http://nobsit.libsyn.comHappy New Year!

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When I told a friend that I'm going to Moscow to teach a master class on programming with Adobe Flex , he said that I was crazy. Normal people don't go to Russia in December.  This reminded me an old Russian joke: A boss asks an eng

There are about 250K developers working with Flex and AIR. If you add an army of ActionScript developers, this number will grow substantially. Where do you go if you have a technical issue while developing RIA? As of today, there no one place to ask

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At this point I’m working on a couple of new presentations for a bunch of upcoming conferences and  seminars and  that will take place in Flex community world wide.While in the past, I was trying to create cool presentations, now I wa

Many years ago, while applying for a college,  I've selected Applied Math as my major. I made this decision after seeing a computer printout on the wall of the admission office. This was an ASCII representation of cartoon characters. After c