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

The early bird discount for the two-day Flex workshop in Boston expires on Monday, April 6. Details at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/295389518.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you Those who are planning to learn Flex during weekends sho

The goal of this article is to give you a brief overview of some of the objects from clear.swc, which is a part of the open source Clear Toolkit framework available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit.Component library clear.swc includes

On Tuesday evening, I’ll be buying beer for every attendee after our workshop for Flex architects: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/247789144 .  To get $300 off the price, enter the discount code adjusting2crisis. If you can’t ma

Our company, Farata Systems, started the process of outsourcing of our Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java.  The source code is located in the Sourceforge CVS repository

During the next three months I’ll be making a number of technical presentations for Flex and Java developers. These are the confirmed events:1.    New York Flex User’s Group, February 19, Flex design patterns, details shoul

The rough cuts version of the first chapter of our book "Enterprise Development with Flex" is already available for subscribers of Safari Books Online . The first published chapter is about the use of selected design patterns in Flex. This