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Ash Maurya’s Running Lean — go read it now!
I just finished reading Ash Maurya’s Running Lean. Its one of those rare books that has lots of great content packed in only about 200 pages. The book is an ...
Special Guest at the NIT PowerConnect
The NIT (National Institute of Technology) Almuni Network in the Silicon Valley organizes a monthly power connect networking event. I am honored to be invite...
5 Technology Application Trends in 2011!
5 technology application trends that I think will be most popular in 2011 are:
Coast to Coast: New York to California
Over the last many years I was traveling to California for work and conferences and every time I was there I was very attracted to the entrepreneurial spirit...
Purpose Maximization
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 algorit...
A new year, a new promise!
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 h...
On Cultural Differences in Outsourcing
Yakov Fain invited me as a guest to his podcast — “No BS IT” — to speak about cultural differences in outsourcing. Yakov and I tried our bit to explain and u...
Insane Advertisement
Have you seen this advertisement? I found this by chance on Ben Nadel‘s website.
Rediscovering Gandhi
Born on October 2, 1869 was a man who proved through his deeds and actions the power of truth, love and non-violence. Celebrated as the father of a nation of...
Cakes and Geeks
My wife, who has super cool baking skills, updated me on what geeks seem to be loving in terms of cake decorations.Watch what you have got to choose from:
BigData
Interfaces -- HTML5/JS/Ajax/iOS/Android/Flex/AIR/PDF
First Steps with BlackBerry PlayBook AIR SDK
Last week at Adobe MAX 2010, the BlackBerry Playbook was introduced to the world of developers. Positioned as a powerful multi-tasking environment it promise...
Come to Flash and the City 2010 in New York, NY
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 ...
Speaking at 360 Flex San Jose — March 7-10, 2010
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 ...
Next Stop: NFJS Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
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) Ro...
Build4Flash @ StackExchange
My friends at Farata (Yakov, Victor and Anatole), who are a very accomplished set of authors, developers, mentors, architects and community leaders in the RI...
Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street Starts Tomorrow
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...
Featured on DZone “Meet the Author” Video Series
Watch me speak on BlazeDS, Flex and Java integration. (Original Post on DZone: Meet the Author – Shashank Tiwari on BlazeDS, Flex & Java Integration).
Speaking at NFJS Northern Virginia Software Symposium November 6-8, 2009
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 bril...
Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street 2009 on November 16-17 in NYC
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...
BlazeDS DZone RefCard Available for Free Download
Getting Started with BlazeDS, a DZone RefCard on Adobe BlazeDS that I authored is available online. Go ahead and download it now.
Speaking at SextaFlex Brazil
Igor Costa has invited me as a guest on the next episode of SextaFlex, the Friday talk show on Flex. I speak about combining Flex and Java using BlazeDS. My ...
Professional BlazeDS (Wiley/Wrox 2009) is Available
Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java
Flex and Spring JMS
If you are someone who is interested in coupling Flex and Spring based messaging (especially JMS) systems, you may want to whet your appetite by reading my a...
Installing and Setting up BlazeDS in JBoss AS 5
In this article I illustrate how you could install and setup BlazeDS in a JBoss AS 5 application server instance. A number of new developers have difficulty ...
Next Stop 360 Flex Indy
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:
Rich Finance Widgets
I am organizing a session on “Rich Finance Widgets” this coming Monday. “Rich Finance Widgets” are revolutionizing the way we acce...
High Performance Flex Applications
Coming Thursday (April 16, 2009) evening I speak on tuning Flex applications for superior performance at the Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group. If you ar...
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 ...
Flex 4 and SD West 2009
Last week I spoke on Flex 4 at SD West 2009. Apart from the warm California weather, I enjoyed the great conference. It had the usual impressive line-up of s...
Flex Architecture and Design Patterns
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 develop...
friendsofed.com Hosed!
Unfortunately, friendsofed.com is unavailable!
Prefixing Fx
Adobe’s Flex team seems inclined to move away from clean design.
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 ...
Flex or Flash?
The recent re-emphasis by Adobe on the “Flash” brand is scary!
Friends from Farata at MAX
My friends from Farata Systems, Victor and Yakov, were at MAX. Yakov spoke on Flex Frameworks at 360 MAX, was part of a panel discussion...
How Was Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco?
After months of build-up, Adobe MAX 2008 (North America) managed to live up to its expectations! Its not unusual for conference organizers to over-promise — ...
Adobe MAX Has Begun!
Max Starts at Moscone West San Francisco
Camps and Community (MAX BOF)
Come join me at the “Camps and Community” Birds-of-a-feather session at Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. Its at Room# 2000 at Moscone West and starts at 9.30...
Win a Copy of Advanced Flex 3 at MAX
Thanks to our publishers friends of Ed (APress), we are giving away 4 copies of Advanced Flex 3 at MAX 2008 next week. Stop by at the 360 | MAX booth, where ...
Flex HTTPService, Browser Cache and IE
This morning I spoke at a Flex event in Hyderabad (India). Our (Saven Technologies) team members at Hyderabad planned and organized this fantastic event. It ...
SWF is Searchable
Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of wha...
Flex Camp Wall Street: 1 day and 1 seat to go!
Flex Camp Wall Street is just 1 day away and we are also 1 seat away from being sold out! I must thank every attendee, organizer and speaker for generating t...
Adobe Developer Week 2008 : Flex and Java — Tying the knot!
Thanks to all those who attended my session earlier this afternoon. I will post answers to many of the questions that were asked and could not be addressed (...
| 360 | Flex Europe- 7-9 April, 2008 |
If you are interested in Flex and are close enough to Milan Italy then you must not miss 360 Flex Europe. This 3-day conference is the place to learn about F...
Adobe Developer Week 2008
I presented this afternoon at the Adobe Developer Week 2008 — an online seminar that runs each day from March 24th through March 28th. The topic of my presen...
Speaking at 360 Flex at Atlanta on February 26, 2008
Come to 360 | Flex at Atlanta and enjoy learning the exciting things you can do with Adobe Flex and AIR. Register now!
Presenting at the Adobe AIR e-seminar on February 13, 2008
Register for the Adobe AIR e-seminar, scheduled to start at 10.00 am PST on February 13, 2008. I would show how a modern day web developer could easily use h...
Speaking at Flex Camp Chicago
Presenting on Flex and Java integration at Flex Camp Chicago on 18 January, 2008. Details can be accessed at http://www.flexcampchicago.com
Speaking at AJAXWorld
Presenting on RCA (Rich Client Applications) and SJA (Server-side Java platform Applications) integration issues and resolution strategies at AJAXWorld on 26...
Java and JVM
Scala syntax highlighting in gedit
Update: A small typo, an unnecessary “<” tag before xmlns in scala-mime.xml has been corrected. Thanks @win for finding the error. See the comments bel...
Next Stop: NFJS Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
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) Ro...
Featured on DZone “Meet the Author” Video Series
Watch me speak on BlazeDS, Flex and Java integration. (Original Post on DZone: Meet the Author – Shashank Tiwari on BlazeDS, Flex & Java Integration).
Speaking at NFJS Northern Virginia Software Symposium November 6-8, 2009
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 bril...
BlazeDS DZone RefCard Available for Free Download
Getting Started with BlazeDS, a DZone RefCard on Adobe BlazeDS that I authored is available online. Go ahead and download it now.
Speaking at SextaFlex Brazil
Igor Costa has invited me as a guest on the next episode of SextaFlex, the Friday talk show on Flex. I speak about combining Flex and Java using BlazeDS. My ...
Professional BlazeDS (Wiley/Wrox 2009) is Available
Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java
Flex and Spring JMS
If you are someone who is interested in coupling Flex and Spring based messaging (especially JMS) systems, you may want to whet your appetite by reading my a...
Installing and Setting up BlazeDS in JBoss AS 5
In this article I illustrate how you could install and setup BlazeDS in a JBoss AS 5 application server instance. A number of new developers have difficulty ...
Speaking on Scala Actors at NY Scala Enthusiasts
Thanks to Dustin Whitney, we have a meetup for Scala enthusiasts in New York City.
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 ...
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...
Implementing Navigation and Pageflows with Seam
This article is published on JavaLobby / Dzone.
Presentation on Seam at Wisconsin
I am presenting on JBoss Seam at the Wisconsin Java Users Group on September 19, 2007 in Brookfield, WI — west of Milwuakee. The details of the presentation ...
Presentation on Seam at Chicago
I am presenting on JBoss Seam at the Chicago Java Users Group on July 17, 2007 in downtown chicago. The details of the presentation can be accessed at http:/...
JavaScript
Getting Started With Node
Node.js, the V8 (Chrome’s JavaScript runtime) based platform for building fast and scalable network applications, is gaining substantial traction among deve...
My Publications
My new book: Professional NoSQL (Wiley, 2011)
My new book, Professional NoSQL (Wiley, 2011) is now available in bookstores.
NoSQL Sessions at Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Meetup in January 2011
After Santa Claus has come and gone, NoSQL is coming to town! Come January 2011, I present the core NoSQL ideas, concepts, tools and technologies via a set o...
Featured on DZone “Meet the Author” Video Series
Watch me speak on BlazeDS, Flex and Java integration. (Original Post on DZone: Meet the Author – Shashank Tiwari on BlazeDS, Flex & Java Integration).
BlazeDS DZone RefCard Available for Free Download
Getting Started with BlazeDS, a DZone RefCard on Adobe BlazeDS that I authored is available online. Go ahead and download it now.
Speaking at SextaFlex Brazil
Igor Costa has invited me as a guest on the next episode of SextaFlex, the Friday talk show on Flex. I speak about combining Flex and Java using BlazeDS. My ...
Professional BlazeDS (Wiley/Wrox 2009) is Available
Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java
Flex and Spring JMS
If you are someone who is interested in coupling Flex and Spring based messaging (especially JMS) systems, you may want to whet your appetite by reading my a...
friendsofed.com Hosed!
Unfortunately, friendsofed.com is unavailable!
Win a Copy of Advanced Flex 3 at MAX
Thanks to our publishers friends of Ed (APress), we are giving away 4 copies of Advanced Flex 3 at MAX 2008 next week. Stop by at the 360 | MAX booth, where ...
Implementing Navigation and Pageflows with Seam
This article is published on JavaLobby / Dzone.
Public Events / Conferences
Big Data Analytics : What’s Next?
While a majority of Fortune 1000 companies are en-route to understanding Hadoop and adopting it in their technology stack, startups in the bay area and elsew...
Geolocation in MongoDB at the Silicon Valley MongoDB User Group
Thanks to all of you, who were able to join me at the session last evening. Thanks much for the kind remarks some of you left behind on the meetup message bo...
Research Papers and Videos on Google Bigtable, GFS, Chubby and MapReduce
Thanks all for coming to my talk today on sorted ordered column-family stores at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Meetup. Here are the links to the Google’...
Getting Friendly With Document Databases
Here is a draft of what I plan to present in Part 1 of the NoSQL Series on Jan 24th at Fenwick & West in Mountain View, CA (The series has 4 parts in all...
Special Guest at the NIT PowerConnect
The NIT (National Institute of Technology) Almuni Network in the Silicon Valley organizes a monthly power connect networking event. I am honored to be invite...
NoSQL Sessions at Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Meetup in January 2011
After Santa Claus has come and gone, NoSQL is coming to town! Come January 2011, I present the core NoSQL ideas, concepts, tools and technologies via a set o...
Come to Flash and the City 2010 in New York, NY
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 ...
Speaking at 360 Flex San Jose — March 7-10, 2010
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 ...
Next Stop: NFJS Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
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) Ro...
Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street Starts Tomorrow
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...
Featured on DZone “Meet the Author” Video Series
Watch me speak on BlazeDS, Flex and Java integration. (Original Post on DZone: Meet the Author – Shashank Tiwari on BlazeDS, Flex & Java Integration).
Speaking at NFJS Northern Virginia Software Symposium November 6-8, 2009
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 bril...
Flex (Flash) Camp Wall Street 2009 on November 16-17 in NYC
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...
Speaking at SextaFlex Brazil
Igor Costa has invited me as a guest on the next episode of SextaFlex, the Friday talk show on Flex. I speak about combining Flex and Java using BlazeDS. My ...
Next Stop 360 Flex Indy
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:
Rich Finance Widgets
I am organizing a session on “Rich Finance Widgets” this coming Monday. “Rich Finance Widgets” are revolutionizing the way we acce...
High Performance Flex Applications
Coming Thursday (April 16, 2009) evening I speak on tuning Flex applications for superior performance at the Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group. If you ar...
Speaking on Scala Actors at NY Scala Enthusiasts
Thanks to Dustin Whitney, we have a meetup for Scala enthusiasts in New York City.
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 ...
Flex 4 and SD West 2009
Last week I spoke on Flex 4 at SD West 2009. Apart from the warm California weather, I enjoyed the great conference. It had the usual impressive line-up of s...
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 ...
Friends from Farata at MAX
My friends from Farata Systems, Victor and Yakov, were at MAX. Yakov spoke on Flex Frameworks at 360 MAX, was part of a panel discussion...
How Was Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco?
After months of build-up, Adobe MAX 2008 (North America) managed to live up to its expectations! Its not unusual for conference organizers to over-promise — ...
Adobe MAX Has Begun!
Max Starts at Moscone West San Francisco
Camps and Community (MAX BOF)
Come join me at the “Camps and Community” Birds-of-a-feather session at Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. Its at Room# 2000 at Moscone West and starts at 9.30...
Win a Copy of Advanced Flex 3 at MAX
Thanks to our publishers friends of Ed (APress), we are giving away 4 copies of Advanced Flex 3 at MAX 2008 next week. Stop by at the 360 | MAX booth, where ...
Flex HTTPService, Browser Cache and IE
This morning I spoke at a Flex event in Hyderabad (India). Our (Saven Technologies) team members at Hyderabad planned and organized this fantastic event. It ...
Flex Camp Wall Street: 1 day and 1 seat to go!
Flex Camp Wall Street is just 1 day away and we are also 1 seat away from being sold out! I must thank every attendee, organizer and speaker for generating t...
Adobe Developer Week 2008 : Flex and Java — Tying the knot!
Thanks to all those who attended my session earlier this afternoon. I will post answers to many of the questions that were asked and could not be addressed (...
| 360 | Flex Europe- 7-9 April, 2008 |
If you are interested in Flex and are close enough to Milan Italy then you must not miss 360 Flex Europe. This 3-day conference is the place to learn about F...
Adobe Developer Week 2008
I presented this afternoon at the Adobe Developer Week 2008 — an online seminar that runs each day from March 24th through March 28th. The topic of my presen...
Speaking at 360 Flex at Atlanta on February 26, 2008
Come to 360 | Flex at Atlanta and enjoy learning the exciting things you can do with Adobe Flex and AIR. Register now!
Presenting at the Adobe AIR e-seminar on February 13, 2008
Register for the Adobe AIR e-seminar, scheduled to start at 10.00 am PST on February 13, 2008. I would show how a modern day web developer could easily use h...
Speaking at Flex Camp Chicago
Presenting on Flex and Java integration at Flex Camp Chicago on 18 January, 2008. Details can be accessed at http://www.flexcampchicago.com
Speaking at AJAXWorld
Presenting on RCA (Rich Client Applications) and SJA (Server-side Java platform Applications) integration issues and resolution strategies at AJAXWorld on 26...
Presentation on Seam at Wisconsin
I am presenting on JBoss Seam at the Wisconsin Java Users Group on September 19, 2007 in Brookfield, WI — west of Milwuakee. The details of the presentation ...
Presentation on Seam at Chicago
I am presenting on JBoss Seam at the Chicago Java Users Group on July 17, 2007 in downtown chicago. The details of the presentation can be accessed at http:/...
Python/Perl/PHP/Ruby
Painlessly Remove All Ruby Gems on Windows
If you want to uninstall all gems from your local Ruby installation on a Linux, Unix or MacOSX box then you can rely on the standard shell commands like “cut...
PyCon 2009 Call For Proposals
PyCon 2009 Call for proposals opens September 29, 2008. Come, share your knowledge and experience.
Real-time
Getting Started With Node
Node.js, the V8 (Chrome’s JavaScript runtime) based platform for building fast and scalable network applications, is gaining substantial traction among deve...
Ubuntu
Build Hadoop from Source
Instructions in this write-up were tested and run successfully on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10. The instructions should run, with minor modificat...
Scala syntax highlighting in gedit
Update: A small typo, an unnecessary “<” tag before xmlns in scala-mime.xml has been corrected. Thanks @win for finding the error. See the comments bel...
Ubuntu and HP TouchSmart Sound
I upgraded my Ubuntu install on my HP TouchSmart machine to version 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Desktop experience is so nice and smooth that I...