I know, that it's not nice and I should behave as if it's not that important to me, but I can't. During the last two and a half years I've been writing, openly speaking, whistle-blowing, and whispering that AJAX is a wrong way to go f

I always respected cliff hangers.  Not because I want to become one, I just understand that it’s very difficult. Cliff hang don’t try to make it look easy – they openly admit that it’s hard, but this is what they like.In

Thirty years ago. The Soviet Union. On election day people would gather  at the voting centers to select Leonid Brezhnev. Who do you vote for - Leonid Breznev or Leonid Brezhnev? You pick! This was one extreme.When I've arrived to the USA, I

Check out this article to see how two swf components (both written in Flex) can help AJAX folks with processing SOAP Web Services and incorporating professional looking reports into HTML/JavaScript pages. Now our Web reporter ClearBI can get the data

I’ll be running a new special interests group on Rich Internet Applications   for New York Software Industry Association.We are going to cover Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, AJAX, JavaFX, OpenLaszlo and more. I invite you to

Last Monday I was participated in the rich Internet application panel that has been broadcasted live from Times Square.  The recording of this session is available. Unfortunately, none of my comments on Ajax made it to the recording (they were

This is my first attempt to podcast. I did this recording while driving the car. After riding a bus for several years, I'll have to drive the car  to my current client for a while. To minimize waste of time I've been listening to other p

Sys-Con.TV has invited me  to participate in the live TV broadcast "RIA Shootout ". This panel will discuss variety of tools and techniques available for developing rich Internet applications.  If you are not sure if RIA is for yo

When Microsoft renamed WPF/E into Silverlight it was just a re-branding news. But yesterday’s news requires some serious attention. Microsoft has announced SilverLight 1.1 Alpha. Here’s the quote from asp.net : “Silverlight is a cro

I'm writing this right after the opening keynote of noted Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON. It's been a year since the first AJAX conference took place here in New York. What has changed?

I met with Jeff Whatcott from Adobe a couple of times, and have to admit that he's a top-notch professional product manager. He knows how to talk the talk, and I mean it. But let me explain you what I mean. Intelligent Enterprise magazine has publi

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .Net technologies or less know yet AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo or a number

Last month, on my way home from my annual skiing vacation I spent a day in Zurich, Switzerland with may family and friends. This city is very nice and clean with well maintained buildings, large windows with watches...It reminded me of today's Java

Even though I write for Sys-Con, I've never publicly complimented them. But this time they really deserve a credit.

If you have extra $379, read the 7-page Forrester report on the subject. if you don't...

I've been using so many different tools and techniques in the past, but nothing worked as reliable and fast as AJAX.

Today, I've received an invite to participate in the IT predictions for 2007. But first, lemme see how I did last year.

Was trying to provide a definition of Web 2.0 in one sentence...

When I was learning how to work with AJAX, I went through a number of 101-type articles. The biggest problem with these tutorials is that the authors are trying to explain several things at once, which is confusing. I’ll try to offer you a very simp

There is a nice looking demo showing how AJAX can happily live together with Flex charting. Now let's read between the lines.

I ran into an interesting statistics about current job openings. Good news: Java and SQL are in demand in New York City.

In Java, if you've created an object from a particular class, you can use only properties and methods that were defined in this class. This is not the case in ActionScript 3.

This sample application shows the data exchange between Adobe Flex and Microsoft Excel

In this interview James Gosling talks about AJAX, Ruby, NetBeans and WebServices

IBM Developers work has a tutorial on how to build an RSS reader using AJAX. The amount of code you need to write is scary. Adobe Flex 2 plus a simple Java programming to support DB interaction allows you to achive the same functionality using