Journey of an Actionscripter!

Goodbye to Sydney: Looking for next challenge

2009-05-06T06:25:00.006+05:30

It’s been more than a year I have not updated my blog. This is due to my move to Australia. My work and life both kept me so busy that I didn’t get much time for blogging. It was a great experience to live and work in the land of sun and sand. I remember attending Colin Moock’s workshop on Actionscript last year in Sydney where he was comparing 'Sydney' as a city which is rendered on Maya. I do

Drop me a mail if you are looking for a Flex Trainer in India!!

2008-03-10T22:01:00.003+05:30

Contact me for flex training requirements in India. Having realized the scarcity of good flex trainers in India I have decided to be available as a flex trainer for a short period of time .Just to give a brief introduction of me; I have got more than seven (7) years of experience in Flash platform.I have been developing Rich Internet Application (RIA) for large enterprises for quite sometime.

New MXNA Reader: Cairngorm 2.2

2008-03-02T19:53:00.013+05:30

I have developed a MXNA Reader few days back. I know there are couple of readers available online which are good in their own way. My aim was just to put together some of the best practices for flex development that can help others to learn.Some of the features:1. Flex 2.0.12. Cairngorm 2.23. Aqua Skin by Nahuel Foronda 4. Custom Preloader5. This reader provides internationalization (I18N) and

is MXNA down?

2008-02-05T21:20:00.000+05:30

initRIA:registrations are open

2007-12-09T13:06:00.000+05:30

Bangalore Flex User Group has launched the initRIA website last night. It’s now up and running and open for registrations. According to Mrinal, Manager, Bangalore Flex User Group: initRIA it is the first of its kind Rich Internet Applications developer conference in India. We, the members of the Bangalore Flex User Group are organizing this conference with the hope of providing a platform for RIA

New version Cairngorm 2.2.1:support for Flex 2.0.1 with Hotfix 2 and LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.x.

2007-10-08T22:27:00.000+05:30

There is a minor change from Cairngorm 2.2 to Cairngorm 2.2.1.They have changed ServiceLocator to reflect moving of classes to LiveCycle Data Services (fds.swc). The main aim is to align Cairngorm with the moving of SWC libraries in Flex 2.0.1 with Hotfix 2 and LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.x.Cairngorm was developed to work on request/response communication mode. To work on Data Oriented

Pune Flex User Meet:7th Oct, 2007

2007-10-05T18:20:00.000+05:30

Who will talk on what?Debabrata Acharjee1. Flash CS3 and Flex integration2. Flex memory profilingAnupam Shah1. Flex and .NET Integration 2. Benchmarking applications: DOT NET web service, JSON web service, and Flex Remoting using FLUORINE. It is an open source .NET Flash Remoting GatewayWhen?Sunday 7th Oct, 2007 11 AMWhere?Perennial Systems campus.32 Market Yard,On the way to Last Bus Stop,On

Adobe Roadmap: CoCoMo + Pacifica + Thermo

2007-10-04T21:49:00.000+05:30

Web 2.0 to work 2.0 - Adobe is going to cater for everyone. Apart from acquiring Virtual Ubiquity, they are working on number of applications, platforms which will help to retain adobe’s supremacy over the RIA market.Max 2007 was one of the most successful events of adobe in terms of visibility and marketing the future product. I could not attend MAX. Out of the hype on the blogosphere I had to

Flex + Ribbit

2007-10-04T20:25:00.000+05:30

I have blogged about Ribbit few days back. Now they have opened their site for the developers. Go and make your next generation VOIP application using flex + ribbit.Here is the mail I have received from them:Dear soon-to-be Ribbit Platform Developer,Within the last 6 weeks, you filled out a request to download the Ribbit component and join our developer community. We are happy to let you know

Adobe Max 2007 on YouTube: Opening Keynote and Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek

2007-10-02T18:58:00.000+05:30

Adobe Max Opening KeynoteFlash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 KeynoteWant to see more ? check out max2007 blog

MAX2007: Trio:Flex_India !

2007-10-02T01:23:00.001+05:30

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 1: Pre-Keynote] Breakfast, originally uploaded by prayanks. John Koch (Asia Developer Relations manager), Prayank (Evangelist Asia Pacific) and Mrinal Wadhwa (SAP India) at MAX2007 :)

Performance comparison among JavaScript, Java Applet, Flash Player 7,8,9

2007-09-30T14:18:00.000+05:30

A nice performance comparison among JavaScript, Java Applet, Flash Player 9New (Actionscript Virtual Machine-AVM2) - ActionScript 3 as well as Flash Player 7 and 8 (old Actionscript Virtual Machine -AVM1 ) - ActionScript 2. It would be nice to see a comparison between Flex and Silverlight performance. If you know any good resource on this please leave a comment here.Here is the link

Check out adobe.com/devnet!

2007-09-30T12:56:00.000+05:30

Finding information on adobe site was never so easy. Check out the new site .It’s just wonderful! No information overloading. All the information you need is just one click away. You will experience a better navigation and find a greater consistency.For Flex resources and tutorials. Check out this link

Mass migration from orkut towards facebook by the elite crowd of India?

2007-09-20T21:28:00.000+05:30

I have joined facebook few days back after receiving tons of invites from my friends/contacts.I have noticed with all my surprise that lots of my friends have migrated to facebook from orkut.Alexa has already ranked facebook No.22 in India.By opening the APIs facebook has created a platform which empowers the developers to plugin features into facebook and get noticed by 30 million people

I also want to see half a million Indian Flex Developers in next three years!

2007-09-16T13:34:00.000+05:30

Dear Yakov Fain,This is regarding your post "I also want to see a million Flex developers in three years". I liked your attitude towards the technology, especially when you say ' I’m not going to fall in love with any programming language, sorry, Flex. But I promise, we’ll have steady relations for a while’. You are sounding like a real businessman here :)! I agree that everything depends on the

Should Flash/Flex Developers learn Java/PHP/Ruby?

2007-09-08T20:09:00.000+05:30

Try this search query on flexjobs listhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexjobs/msearch?query=java&charset=utf-8There are around 325 job posts for Flex Developers by the time I have posted this entry. Out of these 325 jobs, I have noticed 322 jobs require Java or any other server side technologies as a skill.In most of the job posts at flex jobs list, I have found the following key skills and

Jooce in India: strategic philanthropy

2007-09-07T02:27:00.000+05:30

Before delving into a discussion on Jooce in Indian context, let us consider some of the available statistics on Indian internet users:Less than 5% of India’s populations are onlineHome PCs at 3.5 million out of a total of about 210 million homes“India has the fastest growing Internet user base in the Asia Pacific Region" -IDC reportThe Internet & Mobile Association of India predicts that

Real-time charting solution: Lightstreamer an alternative to Flex Messaging Service

2007-09-05T01:48:00.000+05:30

I have been working for real-time/streaming data/charting solution in flex for last couple of months. We are using Flex Messaging Service which comes along with the Flex Data Service (Adobe LiveCycle Data Services). Few days back I checked Lightstreamer as an alternative to Flex Messaging Service. They have just released SDK for flex 2.0. I have configured and run the demo app in my system. It’s

Flex Builder: An error has occurred. See error log for more details

2007-09-05T00:36:00.000+05:30

How Many times have you encountered the problem while refreshing your flex builder or opening a mxml file?An error has occurred. See error log for more details.Unable to create this part due to an internal error. Reason for the failure: The editor class could not be instantiated. I get this error more often. How I solve it?Earlier I use to go to my workspace directory and delete the entire .

Web 2.0 Entrepreneurship: business ethics and yaari.com

2007-09-02T00:55:00.000+05:30

All this started few months back when I had started getting mails from my friends and contacts to join yaari.com, an India focus social networking site but I have never acted upon that. My inbox was getting flooded with mails from my contacts to join that site. Out of my surprise, I noticed that I was getting same mail again and again from the same contact. All these days it was limited to my

PieTimer: A timer component using Piechart

2007-08-31T02:11:00.001+05:30

One of my colleague, asked me to develop something like a timer using Piechart. It took only 15 minutes to develop in flex. I will provide the source code of it soon. Keep checking this place.

Flex 2 Contracts:Contractor/Freelancer Rates for Adobe Flex 2 developers in UK

2007-08-24T00:44:00.000+05:30

I came to this site which looked at the demand for Adobe Flex 2 developers in UK with a comparison to their application Development category. They have presented a study of the contractor/freelancer rates which have been offered in IT jobs that required Flex 2 skill over the last 3 month to 23 August 2007 with a comparison to the same period last year.Do you have any idea how much a Flex

Web 2.0 site Orkut should have some responsibilities!!

2007-08-21T10:44:00.000+05:30

What’s going on? Why people can be so rude? Every day I watch Indian TV channels I feel bad about the degradation of human values. There is a speculation by police that Mumbai based 16 years old boy Adnan Patiala could be kidnapped and killed by his orkut friend “angel”.I have been blogging again and again on the misuse of the power of orkut on my blog. This time an innocent teen is the target. I

Market Speculation:Google takeover of Adobe

2007-08-19T14:14:00.000+05:30

Macromedia>Adobe>Google ?Flash video is the most popular thing over the internet. Youtube has not only created its own fortune out of it but also helped flash community to grow with the noticeable increase in the flash player 9 penetrations. By the time I am typing this post the penetration is as high as:2,483,353,315And this success story has created lots of forecast like these:Google: Buy Adobe

Everything about Cairngorm: Samples, Code Generation,Unit Testing

2007-08-19T01:31:00.000+05:30

You want to develop a loosely coupled, scalable solution for your next project. One of your colleagues might tell you that Cairngorm (CG) is the way to go. But you found it really scary. Is it really scary?Dear friend! I can assure you about the simplicity of the Cairngorm micro architecture.Cairngorm is the collection of some design patterns borrowed from J2EE fraternity. Sounding tough? Hold on