Most of what I learned about programming was during my first year at Yahoo!. I wrote so much Perl code and dove into naive attempts at distributed computing, and the like. I was pretty proud of my code and that I put in hard work, and was vindicated when I went back to meet old … Continue reading Refocus on the Basics
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How Fresh Graduates Can Grow
As a small experiment, I had put up a skribit sidebar where anybody can suggest what I can write about. Little did I know that it would actually be used seriously. Someone posted the topic "On how fresh graduates can learn independently and grow. Instead of waiting for the Company to help" and today, there … Continue reading How Fresh Graduates Can Grow
Thought for the Day
Look at the design of a lot of consumer products—they’re really complicated surfaces. We tried make something much more holistic and simple. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with … Continue reading Thought for the Day
Career Advice
There have been many times where I've been asked for "career advice", especially after a talk. I usually suggest them to 'build a repertoire of things you have done, things you are capable of, things you like to do'. But I've never really been sure of this advice nor do I feel I have the … Continue reading Career Advice
Last day at Adobe
As Jeff Atwood said recently in his entry on Choosing Your Own Adventure: I've spent the last six months staring at this page trying to figure out what to do. With some trepidation, I'm now turning to page 10. Thursday will be my last day at Vertigo. I will sorely miss the camaraderie and the … Continue reading Last day at Adobe
Closed source on Linux is hard
Update: Please read the article carefully before commenting. If you notice, most of the problems being described here is part of Eclipse, which is open source. So, usability issues are faced by open source programs as well, and not just proprietary programs on Linux. The reason I wrote that title was because this pain is … Continue reading Closed source on Linux is hard
Announcing Flex Builder on Linux
Now presenting the alpha of the Flex Builder IDE on Linux! (this was announced at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference). You can now create Flex projects, write code with intellisense-like hinting, compile and debug all within an IDE based on Eclipse, on Linux. You heard it right, it's officially supported by Adobe. Download it NOW. … Continue reading Announcing Flex Builder on Linux
Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild()
Flex 3 beta 1 is out, and along with it something that I've been part of - the AdvancedDataGrid component. An example built using the AdvancedDataGrid is embedded below (it is a SWF file, requires Flash Player 9 for viewing): Notice the tree view within a grid - that alone is a feature not found … Continue reading Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild()
Evolution of Adobe Flex : now open source
That's right, the Flex SDK is going to be licensed under the Mozilla Public License - this means the compiler, debugger, the huge libraries - it's all going to be open source when Flex 3 "Moxie" is going to be released. This news was not so surprising to me because I've heard there have been … Continue reading Evolution of Adobe Flex : now open source
Big Brother
Long ago, I had seen Nat Friedman show off a small Mono app that displayed the amount of time you spent on each application, and updated the chart in real time - so that you could clearly make out how much time you're spending in the browser and how much time you're actually spending on … Continue reading Big Brother