Mrinal Wadhwa, is a Rich Internet Applications Consultant from Bangalore, India. He uses this blog to study the evolution of a richer Internet.
I’ll be presenting a talk on Flex 4 Component Lifecycle at the next Bangalore Flex User Group Meeting on 19th. read more
As some of you on twitter may have seen me mention today morning, I’m now an SAP Mentor.
The Mentors’ website defines …
The SAP Mentor Initiative identifies and provides special status to exceptional and high-value members of our SAP Developer Network (SDN) and Business Process Expert (BPX) communities.
SAP Mentors are role models who differentiate themselves through the high quality and frequency of their community contributions, their perspectives, attitudes, and interaction styles. They are subject-matter experts who are passionate about SAP and share their opinions and insights with the community.
It’s truely an honor to be named along with such an extraordinary group of people, some of the brightest brains in the SAP world …. like Marilyn Pratt, Dennis Hewlett, Anne Petteroe, Dick Hirsch, Darren Hague, Michael Bechauf, Craig Cmehil, Ed Herrmann, Thomas Jung, Dan McWeeney, Blag, Abesh (the list goes on …) a mere conversation with some of these people has the potential of blowing your brains out … I deeply respect all of them, so I’m humbled, I’ve been given such a great opportunity to learn.
I also see this as an excellent opportunity to evangelize and promote RIAs in the enterprise, I strongly believe that enterprise applications can gain a lot by adopting RIA ideologies, so I look forward to mangling together my experiences in the Adobe and SAP worlds.
Adobe has just released BrowserLab (formerly Meer Meer). Quoting their website, the tool lets you ..
“Preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand. Adobe BrowserLab makes it easier and faster than ever before to see how your designs appear to your customers and audience. Get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the web”
This is a snapshot of 2 views of my blog .. one on Firefox 3 – OSX and other on Firefox 3 – Windows XP .. onion skinned on top of each other … read more
While working on a project yesterday I needed to convert several vectors (hundreds of them) into reusable Flex 4 visual elements that I could then use in my skins, so lets say if I have vectors of chess pieces that I would like to use in my Skin as follows …
Since I needed these in several skin files I did not want to deal with clunky Path elements which would’ve looked something like this..
So I created a quick AIR application …. read more
Saurabh twittered a link to a somewhat old post by Kimmy Paluch .. as I read through the post I was very impressed with the visual she uses to explain the various facets that make up User Experience Design ..
