Mrinal Wadhwa is a software developer form Bangalore, India. His interests include Rich Internet Applications and Enterprise Software. These days he's working with a small team trying to bootstrap a software as a service product startup
Flash Player 10 beta (Astro) is now available on Adobe Labs for download and test. This release adds so many great features that we have all been waiting for … read more
Yesterday I wrote about how several A-list bloggers are confused about various Rich Internet Application technologies and don’t exactly know what each one is. I also shared an example of how Mary Jo Foley’s recent post was wrong in so many ways and how I had noticed a similarly confused post on TechCrunch a while back.
Swaroop just twittered me the latest example from ReadWriteWeb … read more
Mary Jo Foley, who blogs about Microsoft on her very popular ZDnet blog has an article titled “Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition from Sun” where she says …
Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described Hydrazine to me as a combination of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud, Microsoft’s Live Mesh and Google Analytics all rolled into one. It’s a platform that Sun is building on top of JavaFX ….
Wo !! something seems wrong already … read more
I spent 10 minutes after dinner today creating this short 4 min long Adobe AIR Hello World video tutorial. In this tutorial I show how to use Flex Builder 3 (development tool for Flex) to create your very first Flex based AIR application.
FlexBuilder is not a requirement for writing Flex based AIR applications, although it makes things quite easy. I’ll show how to make AIR applications without using FlexBuilder with just the Flex SDK in another tutorial.
I hope to make more of these quick tutorials whenever I have some free time .. I’ve used Jing to make the video and its kinda lame, so if you know a good and not too expensive option for screen recording on a mac please let me know.
Also, do let me know what you think of the tutorial.
As many of you know, I have been working from home for the past 3 months .. its been a good experience and I think I can continue to work like this on a long term basis.
I have converted a corner of my apartment into my office and I thought it’ll be fun to share a few pictures of where I work, so here they are .. read more
