Shashank Tiwari

Adobe’s Flex team seems inclined to move away from clean design. Flex framework’s current stable version is 3.x and the Flex team at Adobe is actively working on getting the version 4.x ready this year. At this time, the core SDK of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, is evolving through an open source process. From peeking into its initial version, it looks promising as there are serious attempts to create a clean separation of behavior and presentation in the components, apart from the tons of nifty enhancements throughout the framework. (I promise to write about some of the forthcoming features soon) However, one design decision in the midst of all this goodness seems rather odd and alarming. The Flex team is proposing to prefix Gumbo component names with the letters “Fx”. Lets... (more)

Rich Finance Widgets

I am organizing a session on “Rich Finance Widgets” this coming Monday. “Rich Finance Widgets” are revolutionizing the way we access and distribute financial information and make trading and investment decisions. Come and join me this Monday May 4, 2009 at 10.00am EDT and learn more. Event details: Starts: Monday May 04, 2009, 10:00AM Ends: Monday May 04, 2009, 10:45PM Event Type: Training... (more)

On Integrating Java and RIA at the Princeton JUG

Speaking on integrating Java and RIA at the Princeton Java Users Group tomorrow (March 25, 2009). The session talks about the pull and push based models for communication between a Java server and a rich web application. The remoting and messaging infrastructure within BlazeDS and both Flex and JavaScript based front-ends are considered in the discussion. This session focuses on the view... (more)

My Positon on the JCP and the JCP EC

Election for JCP EC members is in progress and by next week a new committee will be in place. So it’s an important time to understand where the JCP stands and what the EC members can possibly do to make things better for the JCP and the Java community.  Simply stated, JCP is a member driven organization to create standards for the Java language and the platform. Ideally, it intends to be ... (more)

Speaking at Flex Camp Chicago 2009

Flex Camp Chicago 2009 starts my speaking engagements for the year.  Last year I had around 20 engagements and so by the time it was December, I had decided to take holidays fairly seriously. I opted out of anything that had to do with a conference in the last month and did not travel at all. Now that the New Year has begun a couple of weeks back, its time to get back to mingle and meet ... (more)