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Exception Handling – AOP way

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 - Articles

Exceptions, part of life. But if we can handle them in well defined manner, life becomes very easy. I couldn’t find any suitable framework in Java taking care of exceptions.

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Adobe AIR – Window Manager

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 - Air

If you have read my previous post AIR Notifier, it describes a simple technique to display new window in AIR. While it is very easy to create new window using the technique described in above article, it certainly not the right choice for creating new windows. Applications which may want to have a centralised control [...]

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Item Editor – Tabbing – Flex Datagrid

Saturday, December 19th, 2009 - Flex

Most of you, must have customized Flex DataGrid using custom item editors, may be to format an information or to group multiple controls in one column. Customizing appearance of DataGrid cells is one of the powerful feature of Flex and comes to the rescue of developer. This article discusses one of the problem faced by [...]

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Webservice Session Maintenance – Apache CXF, Blaze DS, Spring and Flex

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 - Articles, Flex

If Flex is dominting RIA world, CXF is dominating SOA world with its feature rich framework. CXF not only makes developers life easy by abstracting many complex task through a set of APIs but also adheres to WS-* standards without a need to having dependency on other frameworks.

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My Quotes

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 - My Quotes

Quotes are just ordinary words, but when you arrange these words they have certain meaning.

Achievement is not doing what you are good at, but taking risk in doing what you can’t do…
It is difficult to stay on top, not because you will fail, but someone will take over you.
It is hard to get someone in [...]

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XUL, SVG, SMIL, AML everything under one roof – AMPLE

Sunday, November 15th, 2009 - Articles

You must have heard of XUL, language to define user interfaces using XML. Till now, XUL has been a properitory kind of implementation supported by Mozila browser. The advantage of using XUL is feature rich controls, which are not available in HTML. While Mozilla claims that it can be easily ported across various platforms but [...]

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Flex goes mobile – Slider

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 - Flex

It has been quite a while that I have been using Flex for Developing projects. I found Flex has been quite interesting and with new versions of Flex SDKs, its started getting rich. New components, skinning techniques and improvements in IDE has been key factor in growth of Flex popularity. Though I would like to [...]

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Mozilla Raindrop – Open Messaging

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 - Articles

Over past few years, information sharing has grown by leaps and bounds. There are various means of communication and Internet has just added options to effectively transmit data over the wires. While sharing of information has become much easier, the fact that remain painful is “The Information is cluttered” across various sites. Be it email, [...]

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AIR Notifier

Saturday, October 17th, 2009 - Air

Building applications with AIR is real fun and what could be more interesting when you install it on desktop and see it running. In last few months, I have seen many applications built using Adobe AIR. Nice, soft look and feel, great functionality, quite handy are some of the words I will use to describe those applications.

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Make Flash mobile, ride with AIR on Handheld device

Saturday, October 10th, 2009 - Flex

Develop Once, Deploy anywhere
Finally a great effort from Adobe, OpenScreenProject – Initiative to have Singular experience, multiple devices. It’s always give great pleasure to watch the web has changed over the years. With more and more tools being innovated and used to develop Rich User Applications, information has got its new express way to reach [...]

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