Author Archives: Saurabh

ActionScript 3.0 Fundamentals

This was long overdue. I had organised a series of technical talks on Actionscript 3.0 (last year during Oct, Nov) with my team at Opera Solutions and these are the presentation slides highlighting our discussion points. I believe these would work as a good reference for anyone who wants a quick check on the fundamentals [...]

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Visual Experiences with Flex 4 – presentation at Adobe Summit 2010

These are the slides from my presentation at Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010. I had to skip some slides to get on with speed with my demos, if you are interested in checking out the rest of the slides, please feel free to check them out here or download them and use them in any way, [...]

Posted in Flash, Flex, Flex 4, User Experience, Visual Experience | 3 Comments

Failure is an option, but fear is not!

Its been quite some time that I had watched James Cameron’s Ted Talk where he shares his experiences and learnings of all his time while film making and specially from the period of making the movie Avatar. The thoughts from the talk lingered in my mind for several days and thats how i finally sat [...]

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Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010

Adobe has been organizing DevSummit since 2008, the conference is the single largest Adobe conference in India, and since then it has been a huge success, attracting developers and designers from all over India. I believe such events and engagements are very important for our professional growth, its just amazing to get to know the latest in the technology, and the opportunities to learn new [...]

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Presentation on Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications

Recently I had an opportunity to speak on Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications at Walchand Institute of Technology(witsolapur.org), Solapur, Maharashtra. I am sharing my presentation and links to the demos in this blog post. My presentation was part of the Staff Development Program organized by the institute and sponsored by AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education). I [...]

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My experience with Adobe Flex 3 with AIR ACE Exam

I appeared for the Adobe Flex 3 with AIR exam yesterday morning and cleared the exam with a score of 82 %. I am extremely happy and feel elated that i am now part of the Adobe Certified Expert Community. I want to thank my colleagues (past and present), friends, the Flex India Community who [...]

Posted in ACE, AIR, Certification, Flex | 19 Comments

my response to a query on Flex 4 at Flex India Google Group

well i was writing a reply to a query at Flex India Google Group and i realized that the write up was just too long coz i had so much to tell and then i thought many developers would have similar questions and i should post the reply on my blog as well for the [...]

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Presentations on Skinning in Flex 4, Flex Debugging Tips and Tricks

I gave presentations on the two topics Skinning in Flex 4 and Flex Debugging Tips and Tricks during the Adobe Developer Summit at Chennai and at Hyderabad. I have uploaded the slides and the sample code that i used during my presentations, feel free to download them. Download the sample code here. Skinning in Flex [...]

Posted in Flex, Flex 4, RIA | 4 Comments

Speaking at Adobe DevSummit in Chennai and Hyderabad

Adobe is organizing Developer Summit at Chennai and Hyderabad for the first time, and I have been given an opportunity to speak at both the venues. I will be speaking about Skinning Components in Flex 4 and would give a small talk on Debugging Tips and Tricks in Flex, so if you guys are in [...]

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Sustainability: Myths and Realities, round up from World Usability Day at Yahoo Bangalore

I had the opportunity to attend World Usability Day at Bangalore today, the theme of the event this year was “Sustainability”. Amongst all the great talks during the event, the most striking was the talk by Dr Eric Schaffer, CEO of Human Factors International where he shares his insights on usability and sustainable design. This [...]

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