July 4, 2007
I have been exploring Flex for a little over a year now and all through this time I never had a chance to read an actual book on Flex or ActionScript 3 …. Why ? …. well because until recently there was no Flex book available in India. Every time I went to book stores around Bangalore looking for some Flex book, I would return disappointed as the people at the book stores would’ve never heard of the term Flex and when I mentioned ActionScript they would point me to the old Flash books.
A couple of weeks back on Raghu’s Flex Wednesday someone in the chat window pointed out that ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook was now available in Delhi and coincidently i had plans to visit Delhi the weekend after that so I decided to get myself a copy. The bookstore i went to was the New Book Depot in Connaught Place … i went in, asked for books on Adobe Flex and to my surprise this guy was aware of the subject, but he regretfully told me that although many people had been asking for books on that topic he does not have any. Then I asked him for books on ActionScript 3 and …. he had the ActionScript 3 CookBook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall and Keith Peters available, I got very excited at the prospect of finally finally getting to read an actual book on Flex/AS3 and I got myself a copy. Like most O’Reilly books this book is also being sold as a low price edition in India which is good ’cause I did not have to shell out half a month’s rent to get it.
The goodness and usefulness of this book is already well established so I’m just gonna say its awesome and I simply love it.
What I would like to do here is to give a shout out to the authors Joey, Darron, Kieth and the publishers for making this available in India … Thank you Guys 
….. and at the same time I would request authors and publishers of other Flex books to please make their books available in India as well. I also hope that Adobe can somehow help with this. read more
June 20, 2007
Are you a Flex newbie? Do you need some pointers to what you should do to get up to speed with everything that is happening in this fast paced world of Flex/AIR/RIAs etc.? If so, then you cannot miss Raghu’s Flex Wednesday today evening ….
Topic: Getting on the Flex Highway – How to get up to speed with Flex
Description: The session is a non-technical one… intended for people who are getting started with Flex and covers the set of resources that they can tap into for the same… It intends to collate the diverse set of resources available on the net for this purpose…
About the presenter: Raghu is an engineer with Flex Team in Adobe, he is popularly known in the community by his blog FLEXing My Muscle.
When: 20th June 2007, 4pm India Time
Where: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/flexapacseminar/
And if you can’t attend the session for some reason you could still check out a recording of it in the Flex Wednesday recordings archive read more
June 13, 2007
My team in SAP India (Demo Solutions Group) has multiple openings for junior Flex developers. A very broad and basic requirement set for these positions is:
- Some experience with Flex or the willingness to learn and explore this exciting platform.
- Experience in developing User Interfaces with other technologies like Java Swing, .Net, AJAX etc.
- Good understanding of Object Oriented Programming
- Experience in developing Enterprise applications
- Preferably, some knowledge of SAP technologies etc.
So, if you are interested in working with me and my team on some very new and innovative Flex projects at one of the best software firms in the world send me an email with your resume at mrinal[dot]wadhwa[at]sap[dot]com. read more
June 11, 2007
So, my guess was right its called Adobe AIR after all, and its available on labs so check it out people …
Today is a BIG day …. I’ll talk more about it later … read more
June 11, 2007
This Monday morning couldn’t have been better ..Ted Patrick’s twitter page tells me its happening in about 1hr and 7mins…. 9.30 AM India Time …. The biggest Flex release ever …. So people Adobe Labs is the place to be today morning.
I’m all excited !!
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