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Written by Kuldip Pabla
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 04:36 |
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For all those unemployed and Rif'd from jobs, there is ray of hope. Adobe has been offering free RIA tools to polishup your RIA skills. I think this is a great gesture by Adobe to offer free tools and free books. Visit the following link and down load the Flex tool all for free. https://freeriatools.adobe.com/ You can download Getting Started with Flex 3 at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/pdfs/getting_started_with_Flex3.pdf Happy Flexing, |
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Written by Kuldip Pabla
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Monday, 28 September 2009 20:39 |
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Hi! I came across this funny video that I thought of sharing with you. It is funny, but has something obvious to tell you if you are interviewing. Enjoy. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 28 September 2009 20:43 |
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Written by Kuldip Pabla
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Friday, 11 September 2009 15:34 |
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I do not know if it is just me. I am hoping Facebook is not singling me out. For the last couple of days, I have been facing this problem, where my decently powerful laptop bends to its knees while surfing pages at FaceBook. The fans start rotating at the highest possible speed they can. It works great while surfing most other pages. Yesterday, I saw a note posted on the login site that account was in maintenance mode. May be they were "fixing" my account. On a serious note, I believe that all these quick to do scripting languages on the server side are running into their limitations. I have a strong belief that these scripts (RoR, PHP, Groovy, ....) make developer's life easier by providing easier to implement functionality. However, they cannot scale like powerful languages like C/C++ and Java (and may be scala). I hope, someone at Facebook will fix the problem. |
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Written by Kuldip Pabla
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Friday, 25 September 2009 18:40 |
 We need to agree that JavaFX has come a long way in less than a year since Sun released 1.0 in December of 2008.
Let's also agree that JavaFX is a Rich client end technology meant for multiple screens: Desktop, Handsets, TV and Cars. It is suppose to be bringing the same experience on these screens if written to common profile. Which is excellent.
However, it still misses key features like recording of audio or video, accessing of native devices right from within JavaFX. Yeah, you may say that hey you can JMF in Java to access webcam or other recording devices. But folks that doesn't serve the purpose. If I have to use Java then why do I need JavaFX. JFX is suppose to be making a developers life way more easier and that is the reason I love it.
So, please do not ask me to use JMF. This is what many of the JavaFX developers feel, not just me. Java and JavaFX with no access to devices leaves the Java (&FX) story half completed. I am looking for a scenario where I should be able to plugin any device in a category (say, a webcam from any manufacturer) and it should just work - shoudl be as simple as that for a user.
Hey Sun developers and decision makers. If you are reading this, please please put it on your P1 list.
Looking forward to device support in JFX, sooner. |
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Written by Kuldip Pabla
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:26 |
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At last Oracle woke up and put up the following announcement for Sun customers. I guess, it is too late for Oracle. A lot of damage has already been done by commercials by HP and IBM, stealing away customers from Sun. |
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