Shashank Tiwari http://shanky.org www.shanky.org Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Purpose Maximization http://shanky.org/2010/06/01/purpose-maximization/ http://shanky.org/2010/06/01/purpose-maximization/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:47:26 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=488 Humans are not horses and it takes more than rewards to get the best out of them. In fact, more rewards for complex tasks that requires sophisticated algorithmic thinking leads to poor performance. If you are confused by now, then watch this brilliant animated presentation:

Given that human tasks are increasingly getting complex and automated intelligent applications is the direction, we are all headed to, does it mean large rigid corporates are going to get drained out of talent? On the corollary, does it mean those who run for money essentially don’t care about challenging work? If autonomy and mastery are of paramount importance, is being an entrepreneur or a freelancer a career all smart people need to choose? If smart agile enterprises that engage employees as people and get the best out of them is the way to go, then why isn’t everyone already doing it? Are companies scared things could go out of hand?

Last but not the least, if people like to contribute effectively where they have the freedom and can enjoy challenges for no monetary reward, only because it allows for purpose maximization then why don’t we use that same energy beyond open source software and free encyclopedias to solve some of the pesky world problems that have been around for a few generations?

What do you think?

]]> http://shanky.org/2010/06/01/purpose-maximization/feed/ 0 Come to Flash and the City 2010 in New York, NY http://shanky.org/2010/05/01/come-to-flash-and-the-city-2010-in-new-york-ny/ http://shanky.org/2010/05/01/come-to-flash-and-the-city-2010-in-new-york-ny/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 00:21:56 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=481 As I have said earlier, I am on a speaking engagement diet for a few months now and am sticking to a fewer number of conferences than I have in the last few years. The place I appear next is in a conference at my home base — New York City. Thanks to Elad Elrom, we have a great Flash conference, appropriately called — “Flash and the City“, right here in our city. Its a conference that has not only attracted a stunning lineup of speakers (including yours truly, just kidding :) ) and includes some of the most relevant topics that would interest any and every Flash developer and architect but is also a conference that promises a lot of fun in the very amazing city. There are city tours, bar hopping events and dinner on the hudson. Doesn’t that sound attractive?

The event is scheduled to take place between May 13 and May 16 at the 3LD Technology Center in downtown Manhattan. You can look-up the schedule to get more details on who speaks on what and when.

My session titled  — “Flash amid the cool and the futuristic web” covers a number of different emerging aspects of the Flash platform that are shaping and will be relevant for the web of the future. So, if you care about the future of the web, do stop by.

See you at Flash and the City!

]]> http://shanky.org/2010/05/01/come-to-flash-and-the-city-2010-in-new-york-ny/feed/ 0 Speaking at 360 Flex San Jose — March 7-10, 2010 http://shanky.org/2010/02/09/speaking-at-360-flex-san-jose-march-7-10-2010/ http://shanky.org/2010/02/09/speaking-at-360-flex-san-jose-march-7-10-2010/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:43:38 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=467 With the beginning of 2010 I have put breaks on my frequent speaking engagements. What I have decided, is to speak at select few events and venues, else for the most part keep to online communication. I will tell everyone about my plans for online sessions in a following post but for now let me talk more about the next event where I appear.

Going by the last few years, by the first week of March I would have spoken at atleast 4 to 5 events. However, this year is different and consciously so! My first event is 360 Flex at San Jose (March 7-10, 2010).  You may ask why 360 Flex and you may want to know what I am talking about at that conference. Let me first attempt to answer the “why” part of the question and then I will talk a bit about what I am presenting on at the conference.

360 Flex is one of the few conferences that is run by and for the developers. Its one big meetup for all those who are part of the Flex community. Its not a stage where companies pretend to demo the future. Its all about great content, friendly experience and immense value for your money. Its a place where even the expert takes a few tips back with him at the end of the conference. So it was not prudent for me to skip this event. Tom and John have been gracious to have me as a speaker for past many 360 events and I have enjoyed each one of them. So when I had to choose a select few, 360 Flex comfortably made the list for all the good reasons I enumerated earlier in this paragraph.

So now that I am going to 360 Flex, what am I going to talk about there. Answer: some regular Flex stuff hidden under a fancy topic! No, just kiding ;) I speak about the new Multi-touch support in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. I intend to talk about what this new support means and what it doesn’t and try and corroborate my statements with a few nice examples. It should be a good talk to attend even if you do not intend to build any touch screen applications in the near future. I will try and include a few essentials topics on touch screens and multi-touch as well to bring up to speed all those who haven’t had an exposure to this realm of application development.

If you are coming to 360 Flex, I would love to catch-up. If you haven’t registered yet, then without further adieu just follow this link to register for 360 Flex now.

Please lookup more about 360 Flex at — http://www.360flex.com/. For schedule go to — http://www.360flex.com/schedule/.

Before, I close, if at any time you were anxious why this speaking moritorium then here are my reasons –

  • Every time someone travels from coast to coast in the US, the person emits as much carbon dioxide as a full year of driving a car does. I would like to do my bit and contribute less to the global warming.
  • With the rise in the number of conferences and speakers, many events are becoming re-runs of the same old stuff, which you can easily Google for from the comfort of your home.
  • Its about time I started leveraging online media (especially video). I could reach a far greater number of people and help many more.
  • I am super busy with newer products in the making and customer work. Every time I am out I essentially slip down on my plans. I don’t want to continue to do that.
  • I am very keen on open spaces style events and advanced events as opposed to the 101 sessions. Honestly, 101 sessions are best delivered via online videos. So I think :)
]]> http://shanky.org/2010/02/09/speaking-at-360-flex-san-jose-march-7-10-2010/feed/ 2 A new year, a new promise! http://shanky.org/2010/01/07/a-new-year-a-new-promise/ http://shanky.org/2010/01/07/a-new-year-a-new-promise/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:45:08 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=457 As we enter 2010, its time again to celebrate a new year and the beginning of a new decade. 10 years into the new century we are still far away from frozen humans in suspended animation that Sir Arthur C Clarke wrote about in 2001: A Space Odyssey and again in 2010: Odyssey Two. However, we are deep in the age of socially networked internet that is helping us replace our real self with our online persona. It is a time where so many are so consumed in online stardom that they have stopped worrying about real people, real relationships and sometimes even real jobs! However, much of the new web also holds some great promise, including great new ways to collectively learn to make better decisions and mingle with like and unlike minds.  Hopefully this mingling will extend beyond playing computer games like halo with strangers around the world to understanding alternative viewpoints and a little less bloodshed due to the age old religion based feuds.

May you all have a great New Year and may you have at least a little more exciting things to do for yourself and the world — more than buying lottery tickets using your mobile phone and tweeting to the world that you finished breakfast! That’s not asking for much or is it :)

]]> http://shanky.org/2010/01/07/a-new-year-a-new-promise/feed/ 0 Next Stop: NFJS Rocky Mountain Software Symposium http://shanky.org/2009/11/20/next-stop-nfjs-rocky-mountain-software-symposium/ http://shanky.org/2009/11/20/next-stop-nfjs-rocky-mountain-software-symposium/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:46 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=455 I speak on Flex and Java Integration, Flex and Hibernate and Collaborative real-time RIA this Sunday (November 22, 2009) at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Rocky Mountain Software Symposium in Denver, CO. If you are in Denver and coming to the show, I hope to see you there.

]]> http://shanky.org/2009/11/20/next-stop-nfjs-rocky-mountain-software-symposium/feed/ 0 Build4Flash @ StackExchange http://shanky.org/2009/11/19/build4flash-stackexchange/ http://shanky.org/2009/11/19/build4flash-stackexchange/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:33 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=452 My friends at Farata (Yakov, Victor and Anatole), who are a very accomplished set of authors, developers, mentors, architects and community leaders in the RIA and Java communities, have set up a venue for you to ask all your questions that pertain to the Flash platform. So go to http://built4flash.stackexchange.com/ and ask away everything about Flex, Flash, AIR, Flex and LAMP, Flex and Java, the Flash development community, open source projects in the space and more. Going by their past and current track record, I am sure you will not be disappointed with their great replies and excellent management. Do bear in mind though that the venue is very new. Help grow the community and help yourself by getting your questions answered!

http://built4flash.stackexchange.com/ is a site build on the engine created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky of the StackOverflow fame.

]]> http://shanky.org/2009/11/19/build4flash-stackexchange/feed/ 1 Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street Starts Tomorrow http://shanky.org/2009/11/16/flex-flash-camp-wall-street-starts-tomorrow/ http://shanky.org/2009/11/16/flex-flash-camp-wall-street-starts-tomorrow/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:39:24 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=448 Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street starts tomorrow (November 16, 2009) in New York City. If you are coming to the event, do stop by to tell us about your exciting adventures in the world of RIA. Enjoy 14 exciting sessions over two days. Meet with the experts in the field. Mingle with the community and don’t forget to hang out in the after session sessions :) If you haven’t registered yet, don’t wait any longer as very few seats remain. Register online now at http://www.flexcampwallstreet.com.

speaker_badge_flash_camp_wall_street

(This cool speaker badge was created by Adam Flater as a draft initial artifact!)

]]> http://shanky.org/2009/11/16/flex-flash-camp-wall-street-starts-tomorrow/feed/ 0 Featured on DZone “Meet the Author” Video Series http://shanky.org/2009/11/07/featured-on-dzone-meet-the-author-video-series/ http://shanky.org/2009/11/07/featured-on-dzone-meet-the-author-video-series/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:57:26 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=441 Watch me speak on BlazeDS, Flex and Java integration. (Original Post on DZone: Meet the Author – Shashank Tiwari on BlazeDS, Flex & Java Integration).

]]> http://shanky.org/2009/11/07/featured-on-dzone-meet-the-author-video-series/feed/ 0 Speaking at NFJS Northern Virginia Software Symposium November 6-8, 2009 http://shanky.org/2009/11/06/speaking-at-nfjs-northern-virginia-software-symposium-november-6-8-2009/ http://shanky.org/2009/11/06/speaking-at-nfjs-northern-virginia-software-symposium-november-6-8-2009/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:03:02 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=436 This weekend, I will be speaking at the No Fluff Just Stuff Northern Virginia Software Symposium in Reston, VA. The symposium, as always, has some truly brilliant speakers from the world of Java, dynamic languages and agile software development. I have 3 sessions; all on Sunday. All my topics relate to Flex and Java integration. On Sunday morning at 9.00am I  start off with a general and broad based topic: “Flex and Java Integration“. Later that afternoon, I explore the world of “Flex and Hibernate” and the promising domain of “Collaborative real-time RIA“. The session on “Collaborative real-time RIA” extends beyond Flex and Java integration and includes the larger context of collaborative applications and real-time systems.

Speaking on the NFJS 2009 Tour

Speaking on the NFJS 2009 Tour

If you are already at the symposium, please stop by at the sessions. If you are interested in these topics and are in the area, consider attending them. If you are nowhere close by and are interested in the topics, then do let me know, and I could perhaps plan a session in that geography, if there are enough interested.

Also, not to forget, a lot of what I speak about in these sessions, is covered in my book Professional BlazeDS (Wiley/Wrox, 2009).

]]> http://shanky.org/2009/11/06/speaking-at-nfjs-northern-virginia-software-symposium-november-6-8-2009/feed/ 0 Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street 2009 on November 16-17 in NYC http://shanky.org/2009/11/05/flex-flash-camp-wall-street-2009-on-november-16-17-in-nyc/ http://shanky.org/2009/11/05/flex-flash-camp-wall-street-2009-on-november-16-17-in-nyc/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:19:38 +0000 tshanky http://shanky.org/?p=433 The second edition of the hugely successful Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street is less than 2 weeks away. This time the event is bigger (over 2 days — November 16-17, 2009), better (more speakers and more topics) and cheaper ($49 only!). Alike last year, its at the conveniently located New York Seminar and Conference Center — 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010.

There are a bunch of very talented  Flex, AIR, Flash, LCDS and BlazeDS experts (experienced developers, celebrated authors, speakers and ideators) speaking at the event. As it stands, the speaker list includes James Ward, Yakov Fain, Jeff Tapper, Jeffry Houser, Wade Arnold, Christian Saylor, Brian O’Connor, Daniel Holth, Elad Elrom and Adam Flater, besides yours truly :)

You can lookup the details about the event and register online at http://www.flexcampwallstreet.com

Information on the schedule and sessions is available at http://www.flexcampwallstreet.com/sessions.html. You can read more about the speakers at http://flexcampwallstreet.com/speakers.html.

An idea of a party at the end of day 2 is actively brewing as well!

If you are interested, please go and register right away. The tickets are selling out fast and going by last year’s experience its highly likely that they will all be sold out soon!

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