I’d like to share with you two Web applications that I enjoy the most. Even though one is from the music industry and the other one is about travel, they have are very similar: very simple and intuitive UI and sophisticated data processing unde

Google pulls out all 17 their presentations from the upcoming JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Yes, it's because of that law suit. This is what Reuters has to say about it. Unless Oracle and Google will settle on their little issues, JavaOne

If you ask me, "What's the main achievement in my American life?", I'll answer, "I can afford to purchase food in supermarkets without worrying about the prices". Today I bought a pack of hot dogs at Whole Foods supermarke

Well, I’ll be honest with you. Both of these were offers for an interview, not for a job. When four years ago I got a call from Google’s HR person from France I got excited. They found me online. No wonder, it would be weird if they would

If the President Obama believes that he must comment on a construction of a each building, I’ll be happy to share my opinion on the subject too. To put it short, I believe that the whole discussion is plain stupid and if someone received permit

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Last week I was thinking about design of the main view of a new project for a new client of ours. This application is interesting in that it can deployed as an enterprise RIA as well as a tool to be used by any consumer connected to the Internet.

When I was working in New York City, pretty often I was passing by the street drummers like this one . Here's another one . When a street drummer goes main stream, the drums get more expensive and the sound is richer . When the drumming gets out

Last week I was thinking about design of the main view of a new project for a new client of ours. This application is interesting in that it can deployed as an enterprise RIA as well as a tool to be used by any consumer connected to the Internet.

Have you ever attended software training? If yes, have you enrolled voluntarily or your employer required you to get re-trained to get extra points for your annual review? If so, was that class useful other than getting these points?In my blog &ldquo

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It’s been almost four months since our book “Enterprise Development with Flex”  been released in print by O’Reilly.  Since day one, it remains in Amazon’s bestseller’s list in several IT categories. Th

Over the course of my career, I've been running lots and lots of training classes on software development. I still do. Teaching software takes 15 - 20% of what I do for a living - the rest is work on real-world projects.  These days I mostly

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Last week, a US based Flex/Flash developer who IMO belongs to the top 20% Flash developers twitted that he was contacted by a recruiter offering a contract paying $55 per hour. While $55 per hour may sound a lot in some of the developing countries, t

1.    Last year, the Princeton Java Users Group  that I’m leading became homeless. We lost the host that was giving us a place to meet and pizza. 2.    Last year, New Jersey Flex Users group ceased to exist

Six months ago, I started following Adobe's advancements in the creation of a cross-platform solutions for smart mobile devices. In general, it's nice that finally Adobe realized that it's time to do something about close to zero penetrat

In on of my No BS IT podcasts , I've compared relations between IT consultants and agents with how whores and pimps operate.  Last week I was wearing the pimp's hat, and here's the story.A group of consultants from our company work f

I've been reading a review of this week's CloudExpo that took place in New York City. Unfortunately, I did not have a chance to attend this event and can't report on the quality of this conference, but one item took my attention - the au

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Two most fashionable discussions for this Spring-Summer season are:1. Will Apple kill Flash Player?2. Will Apple kill Adobe? Apple won't kill neither Flash Player nor Adobe. Yes, Steve Jobs is going slightly mad. He goes against all rules in the

My deep condolences to the citizens of Poland on today's tragedy - the plane crash, where almost a hundred people died. But what makes things worse is the cowardish coverage of the event by a largest Russian news portal Lenta.ru and Channel 1, th

Yesterday, Apple introduced new features of iPhone OS 4. Nice. Really? Should we embrace the platform and, for a lousy $99, become a developer for this API? Those people who bothered to go through the application process noticed the difference in a c

I got it yesterday at 5PM. The Apple store at the nearby mall was crowded, but this time there were more people in blue shorts (I was told that there were a 100 of them) than customers. The salesman immediately showed me a shelf with nice looking iP