Inventor invent things. What a revelation! But the thing is that often they invent things just for the sake of inventing things. Take a look at this mini motel for travellers that got stranded and have to sleep in the airport or other . Visualize yo

This is a compilation of the blog posts about my trip to Israel in 2008.1. Arrival 2. Ashqelon 3. Bat Yam 4. Exodus 5.The Wedding  

Imagine, if for some weird reason the USA would have to accommodate the entire population of Italy (58Mil) and provide everyone with social benefits like medical coverage, food stamps, incentives and financial gifts used toward the purchase of the ho

Haifa is a large port in the North of Israel. My friend lives with his family in one of the Haifa’s suburbs, and I always enjoy meeting him. He’s one of a small number of gifted people who knows everything about everything.  I always

Bat Yam means  Daughter of the Sea. It’s a southern suburb of Tel Aviv.  The housing sector here is old, but the beach area is pretty. Citizens of Bat Yam give credits for this to the current mayor. During the celebration of the New Y

The subject of job interviews always interests me. What people ask? How people answer?Today, I ran into an article on Yahoo! where the author talks about how he asks  the question “What are your weaknesses?” and what answers he expe

Population of Israel is 7 million including 5.5 mil of Jews. You may be surprised, but there are 1.5 mil of Arabs who are loyal citizens of Israel who use buses for commute and not to blow themselves up. They are pretty happy living in Israel among J

Next week I’m attending the wedding of my niece in Israel. My flight was originating in Newark’s airport. Have you noticed that the planes flying to Israel are usually parked at the gates located in the very end of the terminal? I can&rsq

Many years ago I started my career as a programmer.  These days people try to come up with other definitions for this trade, like software developer, application developer, system analyst, application architect et al. But if most of the day you

Slowly but surely our book Enterprise Application Development with Flex is moving along. By the end of the month we are submitting three more chapters. So far O'Reilly got just the chapter on comparing Flex frameworks.  I just want to give y

I'm happy to invite you to attend a two-day 360 Flex Bootcamp in New Jersey . If you want to learn Flex in a day (yeah, right) attend my one full day hands on training on Friday, Sep 26. Durin the ferst half of the day I'll explain the b

Back in January  I published an article at Flex Developer's Journal about how Flash programmers who really liked programming in Flash  where forced by Adobe to learn Flex.  Of course, how this ugly heavy-weight monster mo

I don't use Picasa, Flickr,  or any other software where allowing my to create and organize photo albums online. I keep them on my local disk poorly organized but I can get get by.I prefer keeping my personal photos locally. But some people

Yesterday, we’ve had a meeting at  Princeton JUG http://myflex.org/princetonjug – Reza Rahman has been giving a sneak preview of JEE  6 .   The meeting started with a little surprise – projector in the place we m

Once upon a time, there was a country called Soviet Union, where Russian was an official language. It had 15 republics, and people in some of these republics spoke broken Russian and in some situation they've tried to take advantage of it. For ex

I like it - it's simple and minimalistic, has a small memory footprint and is easy on the CPU. Flash player works fine on my Windows XP box. I'm sure, Mac and Linux version will be available soon too. The absence of the I like the fact that t

We’ve published more than a dozen of PDFs that were used by our software engineers presenting at various events. You can find them under the section Conferences at www.faratasystems.com. These are some of the titles: Comparing Flex Frameworks,

360Flex got a little brother now. It’s called 360|Flex Camp. The first camp will take place in a month in New Jersey.  I knew this for a while but kept a secret - folks from New Jersey Flex Users Group had to take care of logistics of the

Tomorrow, I'll be speaking in New York City at Enterprise Flex symposium.  If you can't make it, on Wednesday, I'll be speaking in the evening at New Jersey Flex Users group (see http://www.njflex.com/ for details).Also, if you are a

Clear Toolkit 3.0 is a set of components, code generators, and plugins created by software engineers of Farata Systems that we were using internally in multiple Flex enterprise projects.  In September of 2008, we’ll release its private bet

If you are into enterprise development Flex, don't miss this one day technical event Enterprise Flex Symposium that will take place on August 19 in New York City.You'll see six presentations covering different areas of developing enterprise F

I’d like to share with you my experience of working with LiveCycle ES 8.2. This version has been released  in July of 2008. The letters ES stand for Enterprise Suite.   This tiger can do a lot of things. LiveCycle ES server is de

Haven’t been sleeping in a tent for four years.  Last time it was several years ago in  the Pocono mountains when we went fishing.  They gave us a spot for setting up a tent, and I was pleasantly surprised finding a electric and

I spent this weekend attending a wedding in the capital of the New York state. Raise your hand if you know what’s the capital of this state. Nope. Not New York. Nope. Not Brooklyn. It’s Albany, stupid!An easy three hour drive, and we are

Check this  out:http://www.fukung.net/images/2674/designer.gif TGIF!