Comments on: How many Flex developers are there in India?

By: Nilesh W

Nilesh W — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:37:09 +0000

Hello Mrinal,

This is Nilesh. I have been with Cognizant from last 1.6 years. Currently working in the eLeaning team as a flash programmer in Pune. I am currently expolring some flex data. I read so many articles on flex but wanted to start with the practicle ones. Could you please direct me to some site where I can get the code samples so that i can work around them

Thank you in adv

Regards,
Nilesh W

By: ayush

ayush — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:30:36 +0000

hey…. i am new to flex.. n i found it amazing…. but i dont have enough material to learn it…. please provide me with some books and online tutorials…..

regards
ayush

By: How do you estimate the number of Flex developers in India? « FLEXing My Muscle

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:08:52 +0000

[...] How do you estimate the number of Flex developers in India? This is a question that has been troubling me for quite a while.Â Yakov & Mrinal have tried to come up with some ways of getting to this, but I was wondering if there are any other ways of doing this? [...]

By: Rags to Riches » Blog Archive » Flex India: 1000+ members

Rags to Riches » Blog Archive » Flex India: 1000+ members — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:39:32 +0000

[...] As far as I know, the group was started somewhere in mid July of 2006 by Manish Jethani, it stayed quite dormant during its early months, about a year ago it had 43 members and the number of discussions was starting to increase, today as we speak the group has 1003 members and 1079 messages were posted last month. A few months ago, Raghu had done an analysis of how well the group was doing.. [...]

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:22:41 +0000

Arul, This post is almost a year old, things have changed a lot since then, the popularity of Flex has increased many folds, any serious company considering building an application for the web is thinking about Flex today. You should Flex-India.org, its a discussion list where almost 900 flex developers from India discuss Flex. There are many job postings from time to time as well.

By: Arun Lal

Arun Lal — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:08:29 +0000

Hi Mrinal,

Nice blog… I am working as a flash developer in bangalore and I am self-learning Flex as of now. Now the issue I am facing is that I am not able to find a company where I can get a good exposure in Flex development. Most of the companies who are into web development are using primitive versions flash and the projects that they are involved in does not seem to be challenging. In one of my previous companies, in a casual meeting with the managers there, they said the comapny is not willing to take the risk of going into a new technology(like Flex) altogether as they dont want to waste much money in R&D.And because of this reason most companies,even the bigger ones are lagging behind in Technology,atlest when it comes to Flash/Flex. And as Shajahan quoted very correctly, Flash is still considered as an animation tool by majority of the people from different domains which I find very irritating sometimes. And Rohan also has a point, as we can have a kind of forum wherein we can share our proffesional experience with other through which we can get to know what all is happening at various places in the industry. My current comapny is into e-publishing, so I can share what all applications we develop in this industry, and how far we use Flash/Flex in developing these applications.

By: Rags to Riches

Rags to Riches — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:00:50 +0000

Flex India User Community: the seeds have been sown…

John Koch, Adobe’s Developer Relations Manager for Asia is in Bangalore and he with Abdul Qabiz’s help got some Flex Developers in Bangalore together for an afternoon drink today. It was quite an exciting experience for me especially so as …

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:57:29 +0000

Hi Rajesh, I am glad you like it ... you may want to check the article that I wrote as an extension to this one Update: How many Flex developers are there? Also such a list of names and companies already exists: Flexcoders.net, is a world wide registry of all flex developers ... you along with your friends may want to register there.

By: Rajesh Bhadra

Rajesh Bhadra — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:21:09 +0000

Hi Mrinal,
Great post..Keep it up..
Till now I only know TIS,Ness and Magnet(where I am working) in Mumbai working in Flex Development.There maybe others which I might not be awared of.
You can blog about this and request readers to put their names and their company names.That might be helpful for the survey..

By: Rags to Riches » Update: How many Flex developers are there?

Rags to Riches » Update: How many Flex developers are there? — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:26:04 +0000

[...] A month back, as a follow up to Yakov Fainâ€™s estimate of How many Flex developers are there? â€¦ I had had tried to estimate How many of them are in India?. I find taking a guess on these numbers very interesting as these estimates give an idea of how Flex is is gaining popularity and how fast the developer network is growing. A month has passed since I first tried this and I now have a few new insights to share: [...]

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:20:51 +0000

Hi Shajahan,

As stated above I also feel that the Flex buzz hasn’t really caught on in India … but hopefully this will soon change … John Koch who is the developer relations manager at Adobe for Asia is visiting Bangalore this weekend and he has organized a meeting with local Flex developers. If you live in and around Bangalore you should join us.

If you are interested in joiningContact Me

By: shajahan

shajahan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:48:54 +0000

hi,
i’m a flash and flex developer In my company i’m the only flex developer and in cognizant and symphonyservices my previous companies which has a combined strength of more than 30000 software engineers has less than 10 flash developers. Here the people aren’t still aware of the power of flash and flex they’re still treating flash as an animation tool.

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:50:26 +0000

Hi Rohan,

That sounds like a great idea … only I don’t have any experience or ideas on how to do this survey.

Can you please elaborate a little on how do we go about it?

By: Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:30:40 +0000

Hey Mrinal, what about an enterprise survey in organizations (Indian) that have flex based development happening.

This could be a great way to collect some other unique facts about the profession as well. And we could get the approximate numbers as well.

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:29:50 +0000

Hi Elango and Abdul,

A very warm welcome to my blog. Abdul, I appreciate your advice, I will keep refining and updating the data here.

Coming to what Elango pointed out ....

I wonder why Adobe appears to be paying comparatively less attention to India when Indians form a considerable chunk of the software development world.

The Flex buzz has not yet caught on in India ... most developers that I interact with have not even heard of Flex (I live in Bangalore and every third person here is a software developer) ... and those who have think that it is the next version of Flash or something even weirder.

I feel that Adobe should put more effort into evangelizing Flex in India (more so because they have 2 development centers here) The number of developers adopting Flex in India is growing but I get a feeling that it is not growing at a rate comparable to the rest of the world.

Some suggestions that could help are:

Get the Adobe Flex team in India to be more active in the blogosphere. I know a few of them (like Raghu) who blog, but this is one area that could be improved upon.
Organize some nice events to market Flex to both developers and management.
Organize the current flex community into city-wise User Groups. Maybe Adobe can facilitate this in the beginning and then these groups could grow into being independent.

I hope some one from adobe is listening