Last week I was thinking about design of the main view of a new project for a new client of ours. This application is interesting in that it can deployed as an enterprise RIA as well as a tool to be used by any consumer connected to the Internet.

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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

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

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

The Register has published an article about Twitter considering moving the mission critical portion of its code from Ruby on Rails to Scala.  This sounded logical to me, even though the article has been dated by April first. But then Artima, a

This poem is written by Vadim Rabovsky, a Java developer from Rochester, NY Advanced topics of object oriented programming.Presenting the world as a random collectionOf objects is dubious. Far from perfection,It hardly can pass for a decent expressi

Three years ago I've suggested a lighter architecture for Web/J2EE applications that was based on a Servlet container with transaction processing, Message Oriented Middleware and a DBMS: http://eit.ulitzer.com/node/204697. This  piece was a

Unfortunately, our host can't sponsor our meetings any longer, and I'd like to thank them for giving us a place to meet for several years. If your firm has a conference room and is willing to purchase pizza and soft drinks about 8 times a yea

Tim Bray, a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems has been interviewed by InfoQ about the future of the Web.With all me respect to Sun’s engineers, I have to disagree with some of the statements Mr. Bray m

Spoke to Rod Johnson from SpringSource. You can read about it here .

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

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

Typically, when you are looking for a job as a Flex developer, knowing just Flex is not enough. A quick search using keywords Flex Java on dice.com returns more than 450 jobs.  What if you are not familiar with any of these programming environme

I’ve got an email stating that AOL finally abandoned the ugly Java applet  that was used in the ICQ2Go , the Web version of hugely popular (about 30M users) instant messaging system. The person who sent me this email also wrote, “IMO

1. Purchase of MySQL by Sun Microsystems for $1B for a company that makes $80M a year? This raised lots of questions. Let's use smaller numbers cause it's not easy to think billions. Say you want to purchase a pizza store that makes $80K a ye

Sun Microsystems is a very respectful company, with strong engineering spirit and talented software developers on staff. Sun Microsystems was the company behind the very first technology to support rich Internet applications. Yes, I’m talking a

When I read another posting about adding yet another cute little element to Java syntax, it makes me sad and angry. It seems that people are converting Java into a some kind of a science project. Someone asks, "Kids, what new features you'd

Redmond Developer News has published an interview with Dr. James Gosling, creator of the Java language  where among other things, he talks about JavaFX and  competing technologies.  And he made a comment I can’t agree with. Here&

Java.net ran a poll asking how many people attend local Java Users Group meetings. The poll shows that more than half of Java developers never attend local JUGs. Why? I see two reasons of why you do not attend your local JUG:1. You are lazy. Yes, tha

As of this coming Monday the stock symbol for Sun Microsystems will be changes from SUNW to JAVA (see http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-08/sunflash.20070823.1.xml ).“The Java brand and technology have evolved to be among the most pervasive o

While using Adobe Flex for development of the front end portion of your J2EE applications slowly but surely become a reality, many enterprise managers are still waiting for development of  Flex ecosystem that would include a pool of professional

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

Up till now, most of the time we've been teaching Adobe Flex by invitations from our corporate clients. But since the Flex market really picks up in New York, we decided to run public classes as well to accommodate the needs of smaller businesses