I sometimes ask myself – why is there so much buzz about AJAX when products like Flex are out there on the market? Flex has come a long way since its version 1.0, when it used to be a server based product costing $10 K for a simple application. Starting with version 1.5, Macromedia (now Adobe), have build the IDE on top of Eclipse platform. I installed and Beta 2 a few months ago and played with it for sometime. I’d say Flex is the ideal way for making interactive web applications especially since Flex allows you to direclty consumer Web Services (like data-binding). The runtime – essentially Flash runtime is available on 99% of the computers worldwide. Here is a good article (through digg): 10 Reason We Love Flex 2
Archive for July, 2006
Surviving Meetings
For all you technical folks out there, this might be helpful: A Developer’s Guide to Surviving Meetings. I found it hilarious especially because I have personally used all the suggestions made by author here in my prior meetings, except the second one – Imagine everyon’e naked. If I tried that, I probably couldn’t control my laughing…
The New India
I always found it amusing that as you drive out of Delhi even for a short distance, say 2-3 kilometers, the infrastructure changes dramatically. The quality of roads and house changes significantly and withing a few more kilometers you start seeing farmlands and huts. It makes me believe that somehow the economic prosperity and associated lifestyle developments have containted themselves within the limits of the metropolitan. The real India is quite different.
The myth of new India – good article on India. Thanks to Brian for forwarding this to me.
Update: Now on Slashdot too: The Myth of New India
