Rags To Riches: The Debut
In February of 2005 Jesse James Garrett coined the term AJAX in an Adaptive Path Essay and the way we perceive the Internet has changed ever since. Users are demanding and developers are providing more and more desktop like functionality in web sites, so much so that the very concept of web “pages” seems to be loosing significance. We are now experiencing the evolution of a new class of Internet based applications where a user’s experience is finally an equal to functionality, Rich Internet Applications are the talk of the day and that is what this weblog is all about.
“Rags to Riches” is a journal of my experiences as I observe and contribute to the evolution of a Richer Internet, an Internet where applications are more engaging, interactive and intuitive. There are a host of technologies aiding this evolution … AJAX helped in setting the stage, Adobe’s Flex, Microsoft’s WPF/E and others are taking the march forward.
Flex is my personal choice of technology for making RIAs, I’m going to keep the details of why I like Flex for a future article but in short I believe that if used properly it is the best solution available(as of now) for making RIAs. I started playing with Flex around the release of Flex 2 i.e. mid 2006 and there has been no looking back ever since. In December 2006, I left my Java development position in EMC for a Flex centered position with SAP Labs and things have never been so good. I am currently involved in some very cool Flex development and I would be sharing whatever I can on this blog. I enjoy developing flex components and I plan on sharing some of them as well in this space.
It is my birthday tomorrow and as I start a new year of my life, I am very excited about this technological evolution that I’m a part of and hope to talk a lot about it on this blog.
February 6th, 2007
Happy Birthday and thanks for starting this Blog! I am very interested in your thoughts about using Flex on top of SAP. I have been advocating Flex usage with SAP backends for a year now. There are a number of SAP customers including T-Mobile and Philips Lighting who have done some interesting stuff with Flex and SAP already.
Cheers,
Matthias
Product Manager, Adobe SAP Alliance
February 6th, 2007
Thank you for your wishes Matthias and a very warm welcome to this blog.
I totally agree that Flex front-ends and the SAP back-end gel really well especially because both of them hold the SOA paradigm so close to their hearts
I will surely post my thoughts on this topic here so … Stay Tuned !!
February 27th, 2007
[...] Since the time I first developed interest in Flex (about mid last year), I have been collecting bookmarks to various flex components available in the community. A few days back I realized that I had over a 100 components bookmarked and I hardly used about 10 to 15 out of them regularly, maybe if this information was a little more structured i could find the components that I needed and when I needed them. I also felt that these bookmarks are a good resource to share with the community as it would be really helpful to people trying to find new components for their Flex Apps. [...]
February 5th, 2009
Cheers Mrinal
Let’s have a party for your blog birthday
We all waiting yar. . hehe
February 8th, 2009
Anytime dude
February 10th, 2009
[...] been a few days over two years since I started writing this blog and all this time it has looked the same. I started out using the Hemingway theme by Kyle Neath and [...]