Our new book "Enterprise Development with Flex " made the Amazon bestseller's list of ... Java books:http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3608/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_3_4_lastThis list is refreshed every hour so I'm not sure what p

When O’Reilly’s sent us a book cover design for approval, it was a no brainer. Three authors hence three chickens. Anatole immediately said that he recognized Victor and myself, but was not sure if the third birdy looked like him.  N

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

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

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

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

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

During the last several months, we ran advanced 2-day Adobe Flex training in New York, Boston, Toronto, and London. The next destinations are Moscow, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine. But this is a different world and I'd like to share with you some of m

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In this brief article I’d like to talk about one of the most important aspects of RIA in general and written in Flex in particular – the initial download process.  You application is considered fast for one of two reasons: 1. Well, i

During the last week I had to interview five developers for a position that required the following skills: Flex, Java, Spring, and Hibernate.  Most of these guys had demonstrated the 3 out of 10 level of Flex skills even though each of them clai

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During the last several years our company, Farata Systems have architected and developed a number of Flex projects ranging from creating widgets for startups to large applications having two hundred views. Some projects were created from scratch, and

This is great news. The most valuable new feature for enterprise developers are data-centric code generator and network monitor. Flash I'm glad that Adobe picks up the best ideas from third-party libraries and components and implements them in Fl

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

This advanced Flex workshop has been very well received in New York City and Boston. The next destinations are Toronto (July) and London (September).  These are some of the topics covered during these two days of immersion into the Flex and AIR

Three days of the best conference for Flex developers went by fast. I’ve been attending this great event for the first time, and in the future, I’ll try not to miss this #1 gathering for Flex developers. While Adobe MAX is a lot larger, t

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

We'll be a two day training workshop "Flex for Architects" that will take place next week in Boston, MA. This small event will take place in the heart of financial district, in Hilton hotel on May 21-22, 2009. During registration at htt

Here's an excerpt from chapter 3 of our upcoming O'Reilly book "Enterprise Development with Flex": http://tinyurl.com/qu5dacThe chapter uses components from the open source component library clear.swc, which is available at http://s

Today we’ve finally submitted the chapter 6 of the book on Enterprise development with Flex to O’Reilly. This one was about advanced techniques of using BlaseDS in communications between Flex and Java.  At this point you expect somet

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

We'll be a two day training workshop "Flex for Architects" that will take place in Boston, MA on May 21-22, 2009. During registration at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/295389518, enter the discount code flex100 to get $100 of the tuiti