I am a technology entrepreneur, innovator, author and, as some say, a “thought leader”. I like to solve challenging computing problems, especially those that drive innovation. Being a polyglot programmer, I can program fluently in many languages, including Java, Python, C++, C, Ruby, ActionScript, JavaScript, Objective-C, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, PHP, Groovy, Lisp and Perl. I must admit that I like to learn programming languages and if there is a new interesting one coming, I wouldn’t be far behind getting to grips with it. Over the last many years I have built some cutting edge enterprise and consumer software applications, many of which have leveraged large data sets and the web based programming paradigms. This means I also know a lot about data bases and persistence. I am very conversant with relational databases, embedded databases, object databases, text based data and XML. Having leveraged web based programming paradigms, I have first hand experience with a lot of web development frameworks, including but not limited to Adobe Flex, Spring MVC, Rails, Grails and Django. Not to forget, I obviously have worked a lot with HTML, JS and CSS. My experience and interest are varied and diverse and range a wide spectrum of application development realms that include the server, the client and the middleware.
Besides, programming, I am also deeply interested in mathematics and theoretical computer science. This motivates me to bring my knowledge of applied mathematics, statistical modeling, artificial intelligence and sometimes simply data structures, to good use, when I build applications. A couple of domains like financial mathematics and scientific computing seem to have been good fit for such expertise.
I am an ardent supporter of open source software and try and contribute to open source code bases and causes. I like the plurality and variety that software development offers; the choice of programming languages, the abundant availability of tools and libraries, the existence of multiple operating systems and the possibility of varied software development methodologies. As a member of the technology community, I am an active contributor to the ever evolving software development languages, methodologies and standards. I am an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications, for example JSRs 274, 283, 299, 301 & 312, and have been recognized as an Adobe Flex Champion.I run and organize a few community events like Flex Camp Wall Street, Show Ramp and Polyglot World.
I bring together all my expertise in terms of services and products via my primary venture, Treasury of Ideas LLC, in which I play the role of a Managing Partner. Treasury of Ideas LLC, through its focus on innovation and value optimization, offers many best of the breed services and products and has incubated many ideas to help translate them to reality. Our clients range from large enterprises, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations to promising new startups.
I write regularly in many technical journals and magazines, present in seminars and mentor developers and architects. I have authored a few books, including Advanced Flex 3 (friends of Ed/APress, 2008) and Professional BlazeDS (Wrox/Wiley, 2009) , and am in the process of authoring a few more. You can learn all about my books and public talks by browsing through the Publish & Present page at www.shanky.org.
Starting Monday May 18, 2009 fun begins at Indianapolis. No, not the car
race; its 360 Flex! 360 Flex is a unique and special event for many reasons,
namely:
Its the one and only event dedicated completely to Flex (and AIR). Its an
informal event that is run for the community, by the community. Till this
edition, there wasn’t much of a formal call-for-participation process
either. Interested folks contacted Tom and John and if the topic was
interesting and there was enough enthusiasm and originality, you presented
your wondeful idea at the conference. This time the submission overwhelmed
the nice mom-and-pop process and forced one to have some sense of formalism.
Yet, it was still a comfortable process, full of open dialogues and community
participation. No big wordy contracts and no restrictions on how you can
share your material. Most, if not all, sessions cover ... (more)
The NIT (National Institute of Technology) Almuni Network in the Silicon
Valley organizes a monthly power connect networking event. I am honored to be
invited as a special guest to their event this evening. I am not an NIT
alumni (I attended St. Stephen’s College, XLRI and Courant, NYU) but do
know that NIT (which was formerly known as REC) produces a number of very
bright engineers every year. Although, IIT is the big global brand from India
which has produced a number of very smart and well-recognized engineers, few
know that NIT has a lot of great success stories as well.
I w... (more)
The default text editor on Ubuntu, or for that matter any Gnome powered
desktop, is gedit. If you are a developer like me, who isn’t a huge fan of
IDE(s), there is a good chance you use gedit for some of your development.
Gedit supports syntax highlighting for a number of languages but if you were
hacking some Scala code using the editor, you wouldn’t find any syntax
highlighting support out-of-the-box. However, the Scala folks offer gedit
syntax highlighting support via the scala-tool-support subproject. To get it
working with your gedit installation, do the following:
Download... (more)
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
... (more)
A lot of my readers and clients have been asking for advice and help around
getting Flex application architecture right. In some cases, these capable
developers are struggling to morph their initial fancy toys into robust
applications.
If you have seriously dabbled with Flex, you probably can empathise with
them. However, if you haven’t delved into Flex at all or have minimally
glanced at its surface, you are probably stunned in amazement and possibly
ridiculing the indiscipline and lack of knowledge of these developers.
Interestingly though, the shortcoming isn’t of the develop... (more)
I am a technology entrepreneur, innovator, author and, as some say, a “thought leader”. I like to solve challenging computing problems, especially those that drive innovation. Being a polyglot programmer, I can program fluently in many languages, including Java, Python, C++, C, Ruby, ActionScript, JavaScript, Objective-C, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, PHP, Groovy, Lisp and Perl. I must admit that I like to learn programming languages and if there is a new interesting one coming, I wouldn’t be far behind getting to grips with it. Over the last many years I have built some cutting edge enterprise and consumer software applications, many of which have leveraged large data sets and the web based programming paradigms. This means I also know a lot about data bases and persistence. I am very conversant with relational databases, embedded databases, object databases, text based data and XML. Having leveraged web based programming paradigms, I have first hand experience with a lot of web development frameworks, including but not limited to Adobe Flex, Spring MVC, Rails, Grails and Django. Not to forget, I obviously have worked a lot with HTML, JS and CSS. My experience and interest are varied and diverse and range a wide spectrum of application development realms that include the server, the client and the middleware.
Besides, programming, I am also deeply interested in mathematics and theoretical computer science. This motivates me to bring my knowledge of applied mathematics, statistical modeling, artificial intelligence and sometimes simply data structures, to good use, when I build applications. A couple of domains like financial mathematics and scientific computing seem to have been good fit for such expertise.
I am an ardent supporter of open source software and try and contribute to open source code bases and causes. I like the plurality and variety that software development offers; the choice of programming languages, the abundant availability of tools and libraries, the existence of multiple operating systems and the possibility of varied software development methodologies. As a member of the technology community, I am an active contributor to the ever evolving software development languages, methodologies and standards. I am an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications, for example JSRs 274, 283, 299, 301 & 312, and have been recognized as an Adobe Flex Champion.I run and organize a few community events like Flex Camp Wall Street, Show Ramp and Polyglot World.
I bring together all my expertise in terms of services and products via my primary venture, Treasury of Ideas LLC, in which I play the role of a Managing Partner. Treasury of Ideas LLC, through its focus on innovation and value optimization, offers many best of the breed services and products and has incubated many ideas to help translate them to reality. Our clients range from large enterprises, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations to promising new startups.
I write regularly in many technical journals and magazines, present in seminars and mentor developers and architects. I have authored a few books, including Advanced Flex 3 (friends of Ed/APress, 2008) and Professional BlazeDS (Wrox/Wiley, 2009) , and am in the process of authoring a few more. You can learn all about my books and public talks by browsing through the Publish & Present page at www.shanky.org.
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