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Drool, Britannia? Is the UK Failing the Cloud?
By Roger Strukhoff
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
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Immersing into JavaScript Frameworks
By Yakov Fain
During the last month my colleagues and I were immersing into the world of modern JavaScript frameworks. We didn’t start from scratch though. My business partners spent the first 5 years of this century porting PowerBuilder, a used-to-be-popular client server tool, to a JavaScript fram...
Jan. 10, 2012 10:40 AM EST  Reads: 2,445
The Axe Soup, Cake Mixes, and Frameworks
By Yakov Fain
I always get excited when I see another person questioning the use of frameworks that ask you to either replace one language with another or write additional code as a life support to sustain the framework’s functioning. This time my kudos to Christin Gorman, who did a great job explai...
Sep. 15, 2011 02:30 PM EDT  Reads: 2,559
Java, Soviet Union, and Job Interviews
By Yakov Fain
Back in the seventies, I’d been taking entry exams to the Kiev Politechnic Institute (KPI). I lived in the Ukraine, which was a part of the Soviet Union. At that time people of Jewish descent had a really hard time getting into most of the colleges and universities. Typically, there ...
Sep. 1, 2011 04:00 PM EDT  Reads: 2,755
How Many Frameworks Does It Take to Retrieve Orders?
By Yakov Fain
I don’t like most of the Flex MVC frameworks cause they force me to write more code. I do like frameworks and tools that let me write less code. But there is no free lunch and, at some point, even productive frameworks, tools, and libraries reach critical mass and the finger pointing ...
Aug. 23, 2011 11:02 PM EDT  Reads: 3,358
Thank You, Java Annotation!
By Yakov Fain
This was an interesting bug… I was working on a Web application, where Adobe Flex client was sending an instance of an ActionScript WrapperObject to the Java server, which was supposed to invoke some JBDC code to run an SQL Insert statement saving the data from the Java version of Wrap...
Jul. 28, 2011 11:45 AM EDT  Reads: 4,010
Tiggr Is Built with JSF, RichFaces, Seam and Flex
By Max Katz
Sasha Piskun is Tiggr’s Chief Architect. Sasha recently moved to Exadel’s Concord office from Exadel’s Donetsk office in Ukraine. He has many years of experience designing and building large enterprise applications. We are very happy to have him in Concord where he leads Tiggr developm...
Jun. 24, 2011 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 3,597
Sherlock Holmes and Adobe's Error #2032
By Yakov Fain
During yesterday’s Flex training the students had to install an Adobe's sample application "Tour De Flex". Everyone did. Everyone but one student was able to run this application. He was getting a weird error “An Internet connection is required” even though he was online. No proxies. ...
Jun. 22, 2011 10:30 AM EDT  Reads: 4,861
BlazeDS and Its Dirty Little Secret
By Yakov Fain
If you are developing a distributed application, you can’t get by with any single technology. You’re using at least one programming language and one or more frameworks. I work in the world that requires Adobe Flex and Java EE knowledge. To develop a front end I use, at a minimum, HTM...
Jun. 15, 2011 03:11 PM EDT  Reads: 4,217
Getting Ready for a Java Technical Job Interview with President Obama
By Yakov Fain
Passing a technical job interview is a challenge to most of the Java developers. Some people simply fail because they are not well prepared and questions like “What’s the difference between abstract classes interfaces?” puts them into a comatose state. In such cases Mr. President won...
Apr. 25, 2011 03:15 PM EDT  Reads: 4,100
Software Pricing Trends
By Yakov Fain
Pricing software can be more difficult than creating one.  There are companies who do just this – pricing software for others.  Setting the low price brings more customers but requires more investments into customers support. Higher prices simplify customers support, bu...
Apr. 25, 2011 03:00 PM EDT  Reads: 2,897
Uncle Who Kidnapped Sofia to Syria Still a Practicing MD in Chicago
By Fuat Kircaali
More than a year ago, Sofia was abducted from her home in Lighthouse Point, Florida, by her Syrian National uncle, who is practicing medicine in the Chicago area. Last March, a Florida judge issued an order to pick Sofia up from the uncle's house in Chicago and return her to her home t...
Apr. 11, 2011 12:15 PM EDT  Reads: 7,491
Enterprise Development on Tablets. Thoughts Aloud
By Yakov Fain
I've recorded our chat with my colleague Anatole Tartakovsky who leads the mobile development at Farata Systems. We were discussing approach for migrating existing legacy enterprise RIA to these shiny iPads, Xooms and the likes.   You can listen to this podcast on any MP3 pla...
Mar. 22, 2011 10:29 AM EDT  Reads: 2,592
Adobe Flex Development - Personal Retrospect
By Jason Alexander
I occasionally start small projects for friends or family. I intentionally use technology I have not used before in order to learn new things. The client gets something, I learn something new. It's nice also, because it forces me to finish the projects. Last year, I started writing a ...
Mar. 16, 2011 11:12 PM EDT  Reads: 3,143
The Unofficial History of Software Engineering
By Yakov Fain
First, there was One Tier, and it was good. Back in the eighties, there was one mainframe and users’ dumb terminals were connecting this one and only Big Iron. These 3270 terminals were called dumb because they had only a keyboard and a monitor. No CPU. It was simply an I/O device. Tw...
Dec. 21, 2010 10:45 AM EST  Reads: 7,532
Hacking or Design Patterns?
By Yakov Fain
Earlier this year, in an interview for Oracle, I made a statement defending hacking. Yesterday, I found a thread on theserverside.com where java developers were sharing their view on the subject. In this blog I’ll take the same two quotes there ignited some arguments and will try to ex...
Dec. 12, 2010 07:08 PM EST  Reads: 6,488
Cloud Computing and the Horseless Carriage Syndrome
By Adrian Sanders
We absolutely love the analogy between the advent of the car 100 years ago and the increasing importance of cloud computing today. While Harms and Yamartino focus on economic comparisons, we believe there’s a real aesthetic comparison as well: specifically, we think many SaaS vendors (...
Dec. 6, 2010 11:22 AM EST  Reads: 5,377
The Next PDF You Open May Be Your Last
By David Strom
You know by now not to open unexpected email attachments, but what if someone that appears legit sends you a PDF? How harmful can it be? As it turns out, very. This week a harmless-looking invitation to a Nobel Prize ceremony was a nasty piece of business indeed. When saved to a hard d...
Nov. 9, 2010 04:39 PM EST  Reads: 2,925
The Unofficial History of Java Applets
By Yakov Fain
Fifteen years ago there was no iPhone and Android. Web browsers were hot. Netscape market share was over 90% - they didn't have competition.The situation changed when Microsoft has introduces Internet Explorer (me too, me too). Back in 1998, there was an infamous law suite betw...
Aug. 10, 2010 10:42 PM EDT  Reads: 6,016
To Use or Not to Use Flash/Flex Portals for Websites
By Yakov Fain
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. The mockup of the main view looks cl...
Aug. 1, 2010 08:44 AM EDT  Reads: 3,605
Open Letter to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
By Fuat Kircaali
Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad: At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria. I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...
Jul. 29, 2010 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 16,921  Replies: 1
Notes of a Lifelong IT Student
By Yakov Fain
Have you ever attended software training? If yes, have you enrolled voluntarily or your employer required you to get re-trained to get extra points for your annual review? If so, was that class useful other than getting these points? In my blog “Notes of a traveling contract trainer ”...
Jul. 20, 2010 10:36 PM EDT  Reads: 3,184
Enterprise Development with Flex
By Yakov Fain
It's been almost four months since our book “Enterprise Development with Flex”  been released in print by O’Reilly.  Since day one, it remains in Amazon’s bestseller’s list in several IT categories. This giv...
Jul. 11, 2010 09:25 AM EDT  Reads: 3,430
Adobe Should Cut Its iPhone Losses and Switch Focus
By Flex News Desk
Adobe should cut its losses with Apple and target its flagship Flash Player at telecoms carriers, independent analyst Ovum has claimed in a new report*. With the spat over Apple's refusal to support the Adobe Flash technology on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices continuing to ...
Jun. 29, 2010 09:11 AM EDT  Reads: 6,352
Notes of a Traveling Contract Trainer
By Yakov Fain
Over the course of my career, I've been running lots and lots of training classes on software development. I still do. Teaching software takes 15 - 20% of what I do for a living - the rest is work on real-world projects.  These days I mostly teach Java and Adobe Flex courses, but ...
Jun. 24, 2010 01:08 PM EDT  Reads: 3,927
Disappointed with Adobe
By Yakov Fain
I was not planning to write this post. It was ignited by the “Disappointed with Flex” article posted by Valery Silaev, our lead Flex/Java developer. I’ve been working with Valery on a couple of projects. He’s good software developer. And when he says that he’s disappointed with Flex 4...
Jun. 22, 2010 11:40 PM EDT  Reads: 3,660
Flash Player Is Not Open = Big Fat Lie; HTML5 Is the Savior
By Rob Rusher
The core of Flash Player is the Tamarin Virtual Machine, which is an open source project under Mozilla. While the SWF file format is not fully open, it is documented by the community on osflash.org. Additionally, there are numerous open source products that read and write SWF files. T...
May. 11, 2010 03:30 PM EDT  Reads: 5,136
Apple on Flash: Hey Steve, "C'mon Man"
By Bryan O'Rourke
Remember Hamlet and the quote, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"? While in this case it isn't a lady, the question still applies to Apple's CEO. Steven P. Jobs posted a 1,700-word letter on Apple’s Web site on Thursday, explaining the company’s decision not to allow the multi...
May. 6, 2010 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 8,433
Smarter than Adobe's Approach to iPhone Development
By Yakov Fain
Six months ago I started following Adobe's advancements in the creation of a cross-platform solutions for smart mobile devices. In general, it's nice that finally Adobe realized that it's time to do something about the close to zero penetration of Flash Player in mobile space (I'm talk...
May. 1, 2010 01:10 PM EDT  Reads: 4,511
Once Again About Apple
By Yakov Fain
Apple won't kill neither Flash Player nor Adobe. Yes, Steve Jobs is going slightly mad. He goes against all rules in the industry, and there's no logic in his statements. For example, today Apple allowed Opera browser on iPhone violating their own non-compete rule for accepting applic...
Apr. 13, 2010 10:42 PM EDT  Reads: 3,663
JBIG2: How PDFs and Developers Benefit
By Amyuni Tech
Ever since the PDF's payload began carrying images, file size quickly became an issue. As people began adding larger and larger images into their PDF it took longer to transmit these files and the space in which they were stored filled up faster. Luckily image compression technologies ...
Mar. 31, 2010 04:00 PM EDT  Reads: 5,867
Enterprise Cloud Design and Understanding Latency
By Blueprint4IT ...
Design of enterprise clouds incorporate multiple dimensions (security, data,service brokering, infrastructure management, etc..) and one of the most critical to understand is the impact of latency. With Network vendors starting to provide 10GigE connections, switches and fabric, and gi...
Mar. 25, 2010 05:00 PM EDT  Reads: 6,934
Joomla! Succinct Introduction & Tutorial of Inserting Flash Video Player
By Stephen Wong
An award-winning content management system(CMS), an open source solution to build your own website and online application, a totally free and easy-to-use tool available for everybody……that is our topic today, Joomla!. New users to Joomla! and have no ideas how to start? No problem, he...
Mar. 14, 2010 11:49 PM EDT  Reads: 4,272
iPad on Ulitzer - The New Browser Wars: Flash vs. Swipe
By David Strom
Pardon me for adding yet another iPad analysis (certainly, when a computer product launch makes it into Doonesbury, we have crossed a new threshold of hype), but one thing actually missing from the copious words and videos on yesterday’s event at Moscone was the simple fact that we hav...
Jan. 29, 2010 10:00 AM EST  Reads: 8,145
What Should Be Baked into the New Apple iPad and Why
By Wilson Kerr
Apple users are nothing if not dedicated. The landmark form factor and user interface innovations the company has ushered in over the last 25 years have created a fiercely dedicated customer base. There are Mac clubs, iPhone fan sites, and even online photo collections of Apple logo ta...
Jan. 27, 2010 09:15 AM EST  Reads: 5,977
Development of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to Incorporate Major Changes
By Ernest de Leon
The Ubuntu team has decided to take a different approach to development for the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Lucid Lynx, which is slated for an April 2010 release, will benefit from these changes through increased stability, more focused agile development and a tight...
Dec. 25, 2009 12:15 PM EST  Reads: 6,134
Field Level Access with RIA Services
By Brad Abrams
There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an entity.  For example, HIPPA compliance requires that some data not be exposed to only employees with a need to know. This example works with Silverlight 4\RI...
Dec. 16, 2009 12:30 PM EST  Reads: 3,462
My Three iPhone Predictions For 2010
By Yakov Fain
Yeah, it's this time of the year. Again. Making predictions is so tempting... This year I'll cover just the iPhone. Apple will let Flash Player on iPhone no later than October ’10. They don’t have a choice, if they want to stay competitive. Enough of a crippled Web browser already. Act...
Dec. 12, 2009 11:00 PM EST  Reads: 11,579
Mac File Recovery
By Jonny Defh
HFS Wrapper is a popular and reliable Mac OS X file system. The HFS+ volume could be made to contain within the HFS file system volume in a way that make it look like the HFS volume and not the HFS+ volume to your system
Nov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST  Reads: 4,689
HL7 Interface Engines
By Julian Jewel
So what do you really look for in an interface engine? There is more to an IE than just being a pass-through of messages.
Oct. 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT  Reads: 7,534
A New Medical Journal Search Tool from DeepDyve
By David Strom
A new search site is in beta called DeepDyve that has some promise. First, they claim that they index millions of medical papers from paid journals and free sites. The problem in the past is that this content wasn’t too readily available. Yes, there is Medline, but not a very user-frie...
Oct. 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT  Reads: 5,637

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