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

The online publication RIARevolution.com covers everything related to development of rich Internet applications has published an interview with me as a part of the audio podcast Speak Rich. You can download it as an mp3 file or just listen to it at t

This podcast is about the closing  day of Adobe MAX 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ How I understand the iPhone/Flash situationGood read about AIR 2.0The Adobe MAX 2009 videos for developers are published the next day!

I'm continuing covering Adobe MAX 2009 in Los Angeles. This podcast is about the day 2 at the conference: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/

Published a new episode of my No BS IT podcast covering Adobe MAX, Monday, Oct 5 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/. Features of Flash Player 10.1: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/features.htmlStay tuned.

Published the next podcast covering my participation in the conference Adobe Max 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/   Started while driving to the airport and finished in LA. How I spend my first day in LA, and the first major software announcement

This is the first in a mini series covering my participation in a great event called Adobe MAX 2009 that will take place in Los Angeles, CA on October 4-7, 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ . Stay tuned.

Yesterday, my colleague  and I received notifications from  MAX 2009 (the main Adobe annual conference) organizers that started with words “We regret to inform you…we were forced to make difficult decisions, which topics would

Adobe AIR is cool because 1. AIR allows you to perform all I/O operation with the file system on the user’s desktop. 2. AIR allows you to sign applications and version application. 3. AIR offers an updater to ensure proper upgrades of the appl

Tomorrow is the last day for submitting papers for Adobe's main conference called Max'09. I've submitted two proposals - one's called "Practical Design Patterns in Flex", and the other one is titled "Data Synchronizatio

The number of software developers who are comfortable with Flex has reached critical mass and we started getting requests for advanced Flex training. People not just want to learn Flex, they want to use it properly. We have created a two-day curricul

Companies lay off people. It may happen to you, it may happen to me. Some laid off people are bloggers who immediately start posting online about how unfair it was to them badmouthing their former employers. These blogs is the worst thing people can

On day number three I managed to attend only three technical sessions and now I need to make a confession.  When I first saw the sessions approved for MAX, I was disappointed by the fact that there were too many presenters from Adobe. Yeah, yeah

On the MAX eve, I went to speaker’s reception.  First of all had to meet with three other panelists participated in Monday’s session Flex architecture face off - Chafiq Kazoun, Todd Anderson , Joshua Noble are very experienced softwa

On Sunday morning, I got my two conference badges – one for Press and the other one as a Speaker.  Each of those gives an access to special receptions or meetings with Adobe big shots, and I don’t want to miss any of those.While wait

Of all domestic air carriers, I like Continental the most.  They showed Mamma Mia and the food was bearable.  Last month, I was in the air for 14 hours flying to Japan, and now the trip across the USA is a piece of cake. I have only carry l

Yesterday, I call my friend from SF to arrange for a dinner.  During the conversation, I said that I have to be on a number of technical sessions there. He was surprised that I’m not going to present there, but will be sitting at the desk

As any software developer I enjoy working with cool components, and Flex is definitely cool. I also know that Adobe is not a philanthropy firm – they need to make money to stay in business.

After attending half a dozen conferences this year I took a break and did not go to MAX. I check MXNA blog aggregator daily, but finding useful info is not easy. This is how a typical blog looks like. Yo man, it’s so cool! I’m going to MAX in three d

Some thoughts on the situation with Adobe Flex, and why I want this technology to succeed (they have an ambitious goal of having a million of Flex developers in three years).

Flash Player 9 enters pre-alpha stage on Linux. Adobe marketing needs to work harder.

Yesterday, Adobe announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Google to distribute the Google Toolbar.

In my opinion, one of the Adobe's most important goals in regards to adoption of Flash-related technologies is to get attention of the enterprise architects and developers.

Adobe had a large booth at JavaOne. They were running multiple presentations of their latest software. Since I'm into Flex now, I knew the latest news in this area, but I did not know all the news.