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

I'll be in Ukraine on a private visit. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems made arrangements, and I'll be presenting on their join meeting reviewing technologies for RIA development (AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX). This event will take place on

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

This is called The Instinct Java Developer Contest. Actually, the first prize is $20K + up to $5K as free membership (?!) in the developer’s program.   Details are here. This sweet deal was backed by Sprint that’s promotes Samsu

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

OK, car manufactures go Flex. Will they lose or gain customers after that?Car manufacturers want to have fancy consumer sites. It’s a RIA world, and having interactive Web sites should bring more people to car dealerships.   Bikers to

Have you checked your Program Files folder lately? If you did not, do it now. Surprise, Surprise! My  happy family may have  a new kid – Microsoft Silverlight made itself comfy on my machine.  There are different ways of deliveri

I have a gut feeling that 2008 will cry for a new breed of IT people called User Experience Professional. I already see some serious changes in a designing front ends for such boring business Web applications as pension plan management system or a st

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

Yesterday, my colleague and I participated in an interesting event where several presenters were given 15 minutes each to show off their rich Internet application. Each presenter was promised a prize, and the first prize was the iPod Shuffle. We did

I was delivering a talk on SOA and asked the following question, “What do you think is the driving force for implementing any technology or architecture in a decent size Enterprise?” The answers were typical – better code reusabilit

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

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

Something new is cooking in the Google software pot. It’s called Google Gears, which is a new way to create offline Web applications. “Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offlin

An Eclipse plugin version of Web reporter ClearBI (a.k.a. FlexBI) is available for public Beta testing. ClearBI is a business intelligence engine that allows software developers automate report generation process, and end users can customize reports

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

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

Who’s better looking – Flash Player or Sliverlight? As of today, 98% of the world computer users know what Flash Player is and only 2% or so know what’s Silverlight. But this will change pretty soon.

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

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

The book "RIA with Adobe Flex and Java" is written. Check out the book site. Do you know why we are smiling? Because the writing is over!

My partner Victor Rasputnis and I will teach an intensive, one-day workshop called "Adobe Flex Developer Bootcamp" at at AJAXWorld 2007 on March 19 in New York City.

Last year I started a column at Java Developers Journal about a Java programmer who bought a gas station and is trying to find the best tools for automation of this small business. These are the links to all articles.

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