By Yakov Fain Many years ago, while applying for a college, I've selected Applied Math as my major. I made this decision after seeing a computer printout on the wall of the admission office. This was an ASCII representation of cartoon characters. After college, I've started working as ... Oct. 30, 2009 02:03 PM EDT Reads: 201 |
By Yakov Fain Great Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA is available for free in the Community Edition flavor. This is good news, but IMO, it's a little too late. I've recorded the episode #14 of my No BS IT podcast where I explain my point of view: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ . Oct. 27, 2009 09:42 AM EDT Reads: 196 |
By Yakov Fain  I never liked online forums where comments to the original posts could be rated (+ or - 1) by other readers. But today, I changed my mind. These negative ratings can tell you a lot. There is a Web site www.habrahabr.ru popular among software developers in Russia. Today, someone posted ... Oct. 20, 2009 10:50 PM EDT Reads: 421 |
By Yakov Fain The online publication RIARevolution.com covers everything related to development of rich Internet applications has published an interview with me as a part of the audio podcast Speak Rich. You can download it as an mp3 file or just listen to it at the following Web page: http://bit.ly... Oct. 19, 2009 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 463 |
By 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 iPhoneIt's easy if you... Oct. 19, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 771 |
By Yakov Fain During the last several months, we ran advanced 2-day Adobe Flex training in New York, Boston, Toronto, and London. The next destinations are Moscow, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine. But this is a different world and I'd like to share with you some of my thoughts on the subject.This is ou... Oct. 12, 2009 06:44 PM EDT Reads: 252 |
By Yakov Fain  This podcast is about the closing day of Adobe MAX 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ How I understand the iPhone/Flash situationGood read about AIR 2.0The Adobe MAX 2009 videos for developers are published the next day! Oct. 8, 2009 05:50 PM EDT Reads: 445 |
By Yakov Fain I'm continuing covering Adobe MAX 2009 in Los Angeles. This podcast is about the day 2 at the conference: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ Oct. 7, 2009 01:25 PM EDT Reads: 291 |
By Yakov Fain Published a new episode of my No BS IT podcast covering Adobe MAX, Monday, Oct 5 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/. Features of Flash Player 10.1: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/features.htmlStay tuned. Oct. 6, 2009 10:32 AM EDT Reads: 303 |
By Yakov Fain Published the next podcast covering my participation in the conference Adobe Max 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ Started while driving to the airport and finished in LA. How I spend my first day in LA, and the first major software announcement at Adobe MAX 2009: http://flex.sys-... Oct. 5, 2009 09:48 AM EDT Reads: 405 |
By Yakov Fain This is the first in a mini series covering my participation in a great event called Adobe MAX 2009 that will take place in Los Angeles, CA on October 4-7, 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ . Stay tuned. Oct. 2, 2009 07:52 PM EDT Reads: 404 |
By Yakov Fain  Three years ago, I was calculating the cost of attending JavaOne conference. Thanks to the crisis, the conferences got cheaper, but arestill not affordable for many software developers. I’d like to offer you a legal way to get more than 80% off the registration price at Adobe MAX tha... Oct. 1, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 653 |
By Yakov Fain Published a podcast: "A conversation with a CS professor who doesn't want his son to be a programmer": http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ Sep. 29, 2009 05:30 PM EDT |
By Yakov Fain  Russia "will" develop a new Web browser for federal employees. The news was published on infonews.ru. The project is funded by the Ministry of Defense and FSB (formerly KGB). According to infonews, "several million rubles will be spent on creation of Russian Web browser". They are pla... Sep. 26, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 771 |
By Yakov Fain In this podcast I'll share with you my experience of hiring an offshore $13p/h freelancer to develop a simple Web site for personal use: http://nobsit.libsyn.com . Sep. 21, 2009 04:00 PM EDT |
By Yakov Fain Published a new podcast with Shashank Tiwari "Cultural differences in outsourcing" http://nobsit.libsyn.com/We talked about specifics in dealing with East European and Indian offshore developers. In the end, we happily agreed that American enterprise managers are the on... Sep. 11, 2009 05:58 PM EDT |
By Yakov Fain In the beginning, the world was flat. At least people thought so. If you don’t believe me, check Wikipedia, which efing knows everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth Eventually, some educated people got a gut feeling that the world was round or as they say ... Sep. 8, 2009 10:30 AM EDT |
By Yakov Fain During the last half an hour Twitter is down. It's hit by a denial of service attack. And when Twitter is down, there is no way to quickly say to the entire world that Twitter's down. Actually, to put it properly, there is no way to broadcast (push) this message. But the good ... Aug. 6, 2009 12:04 PM EDT Reads: 120 |
By Yakov Fain Don’t create new singletons – just use what you already have. Each real-world software developer knows at least one design pattern – Singleton. Flex has some specifics in implementing Singletons due to lack of private constructors in ActionScript, but the goal of this... Aug. 5, 2009 01:38 PM EDT Reads: 205 |
By Yakov Fain 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. You application is considered fast for one of two reasons: 1. Well, it is fast 2. It’s perceived to... Jul. 29, 2009 08:17 PM EDT Reads: 573 |
By Yakov Fain  During the last week I had to interview five developers for a position that required the following skills: Flex, Java, Spring, and Hibernate. Most of these guys had demonstrated the 3 out of 10 level of Flex skills even though each of them claimed a practical experience on at least tw... Jul. 18, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,246 Replies: 39 |
By Yakov Fain  A perspective client showed me a Web page from Adobe’s Connect Now. Check this page out before reading further: https://connectnow.acrobat.com/
“Yakov, I want our new application to be like that one. The page comes up really fast and it’s very responsive. Can you create our Flex app... Jul. 17, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,362 |
By Yakov Fain  I really like Google. They produce easy to use applications that work great. I use their search engine about a hundred times a day. Their applications make sense. But this announcement gave me goosebumps. If you didn’t hear that Google has announced that in 2010 consumers will have a c... Jul. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,051 Replies: 2 |
By Yakov Fain During the last several years our company, Farata Systems have architected and developed a number of Flex projects ranging from creating widgets for startups to large applications having two hundred views. Some projects were created from scratch, and Jul. 10, 2009 06:20 AM EDT Reads: 150 |
By Yakov Fain Большинство иммигрантов приехавших в Америку из Советского Союза в 1970-80х годах получали статус политических беженцев (political refugees). Такой статус давали тем, кто мог доказать, что они притеснялись по политическим или рассовым причинам... Jun. 15, 2009 10:16 AM EDT Reads: 174 |
By Yakov Fain On many occasions I’ve been writing that there is almost no women at the IT conferences, and it’s sad. Unfortunately, some presenters treat women as second class citizens and don’t think twice before using dirty jokes and imag Jun. 12, 2009 03:23 PM EDT Reads: 184 |
By Yakov Fain Information Week has published an interview with GM’s CIO discussing the impact of the bankruptcy on the two-billion-IT operations of this huge corporation .After reading this article, I’m pretty sure that GM’s IT is doomed. Jun. 10, 2009 05:53 PM EDT Reads: 146 |
By Yakov Fain  Information Week has published an interview with GM’s CIO discussing the impact of the bankruptcy on the two-billion-IT operations of this huge corporation. After reading this article, I’m pretty sure that GM’s IT is doomed. The chances are slim that they will turn themselves into lea... Jun. 10, 2009 11:40 AM EDT Reads: 1,682 |
By Yakov Fain ????? ? XIX ???? ?????? ?????? ???????? ??? ????? ?? ???????? ? ???????? ?? ????????? ???????, ????????? ? ??? ?? ????? ??? ???? ?????? ?????????? ? ????? ? ??????????????? ??????? ??? ????????? ????????? ???? ? ?????????. ?? ????? ?? ? ? ??????? ??? Jun. 9, 2009 10:08 PM EDT Reads: 125 |
By Yakov Fain 24 ?????? 1992 ???? ? ??? ? ???????, ?????????????? ?? ?????? ? ??? ???? ? ???????? ? ?????????? ????????? Shannon. ? ??????? ? ???? ??? ??????? ??????? ????????????? ???? ?????? ????????? ???? ? ???????? ????? B2. ????? ???????? ? ?????. ????? ???? Jun. 8, 2009 03:42 PM EDT Reads: 111 |
By Yakov Fain  I'm finishing writing a book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Development with Flex". It's my 6th one. Yesterday, I got an email from a person asking if I'd like to write a new book on software. Here's what came to my mind Jun. 7, 2009 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 691 |
By Yakov Fain It’s a huge tragedy, and my heart goes to the survivors of 228 passengers who left Rio, but never arrived to Paris. The black boxes landed somewhere 4000 meters deep in the ocean and their batteries supporting emitting signals will die in 30 da Jun. 4, 2009 06:28 PM EDT Reads: 101 |
By Yakov Fain Добрые люди помогли нам найти работу. Мошавы в отличие от киббуцев являются капиталистическими фермерскими хозяйствами. У Моше, хозяина было 4000 нектариновых деревьев, которые только-только зацветали. Нам с Сашкой был выделен сарайчик с телевизором,... Jun. 3, 2009 06:40 AM EDT Reads: 108 |
By Yakov Fain Моя Американская история продолжается. Так как способ моей инъекции в желанное америкаское сосаети не просматривался, я решил проверить, что происходит в более близком Израиле. Об иммиграции туда речь не шла, а поехал я туда на 45 дней в составе кул... Jun. 2, 2009 08:06 AM EDT Reads: 102 |
By Yakov Fain Аксиома Будама о перемещении тел в пространстве. Для того, чтобы переместить тело из пункта А в пункт Б следующие необходимые и достаточные условия должны быть соблюдены1. В пункте А тело ничего не удерживает2. В п... Jun. 1, 2009 10:57 AM EDT |
By Yakov Fain This is great news. The most valuable new feature for enterprise developers are data-centric code generator and network monitor. Flash I'm glad that Adobe picks up the best ideas from third-party libraries and components and implements them in Fl Jun. 1, 2009 07:42 AM EDT Reads: 259 |
By Yakov Fain ?????? ? ????, ??? ? ?????? ????? ? ???????. ??? ?????? ? 8 ?????? ????????? ????? ? ?????? ?????? ?? ?????. ??? ???? ?????? ?????, ??, and ????????. ??? ???? ????????? ??? ??????. ??? ???????, ??? ??? ??? ?????????, ?.?. ????? ? ??????? ?? ?????? ? May. 31, 2009 12:47 AM EDT |
By Yakov Fain  Yesterday, my colleague and I received notifications from MAX 2009 (the main Adobe annual conference) organizers that started with words “We regret to inform you…we were forced to make difficult decisions, which topics would May. 30, 2009 08:06 AM EDT Reads: 1,162 |
By Yakov Fain 1. ???????? 1. ????????? ????????????? May. 29, 2009 07:19 AM EDT |
By Yakov Fain Америчка, это уменьшительно-ласкательно-пренебрежительное-обидненькое название которое иногда используется русскими иммигрантами, живущими здесь в Америке – самой лучшей стране, где я когда-либо бывал. Во избежание ненужных вопросов, ... May. 29, 2009 06:58 AM EDT |
Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of 
