Yakov Fain

The ultimate goal of any software vendor is...to make sure that their software runs on iPhone. The time will come when entire J2EE stack with EJB will run on iPhone. Singing... You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Imagine there's no iPhone It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no iPhone It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no iPhones I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one ... (more)

Adobe's Serious Move Towards Model-Driven Development

When a couple of months back I told a fellow Flex developer that I’ll be speaking at CFUnited, conference he shrugged, “Why ColdFusion?” Little did he know that CFUnited is branded as a ColdFusion, Flex and AIR conference. And this was true – there were lots of quality presentations on Flex and AIR here. The venue selection was superb – a golf resort in Virginia with three swimming pools... (more)

Secrets Of The Masters: Core Java Job Interview Questions

JDJ's Enterprise Editor, Yakov Fain (pictured) writes: If you are planning to hit the job market,  you may need to refresh some of the Java basic terms and techniques to prepare yourself for a technical interview. Let me offer you some of the core Java questions that you might expect during the interviews.  For  most questions  I’ve provided only  short  answers to encourage further rese... (more)

Thinking of Flex in London

After running an advanced Flex training in London with my colleague Victor, we kept asking ourselves, “Why did we like it better than many of similar events from the past?” No, it’s not because London is a nice city to visit. It’s not because you hear "dear" and "darling" all the time. The reason is simple - this was the strongest (from the skill set perspective) group we’ve ever had. Go E... (more)

Flex Performance: Develop Each Flex Application As a Portal

In this brief article I’d like to talk about one of the most important aspects of RIA in general and written in Flex in particular – the initial download process.  Your application is considered fast for one of two reasons: 1. Well, it is fast 2. It’s perceived to be fast Today I’ll cover one of the approaches that we at Farata Systems successfully use in literally every enterprise project ... (more)