Yakov Fain

Sometime ago I bought Adobe SoundBooth 2.0 to improve my user experience in the field of recording and editing audio podcasts. I played with nice and free Audacity, and then decided to give some business to a company I like.  There’s a version of SoundBooth for Mac OS, and ... (more)

At this point I’m working on a couple of new presentations for a bunch of upcoming conferences and  seminars and  that will take place in Flex community world wide.While in the past, I was trying to create cool presentations, now I wantbe even cooler and... deliver a boorin... (more)

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 a compu... (more)

One might think that a school district software is an easy case when it comes to performance and scalability. Now think of the end of a marking period when everyone is working with progress reports?  From this interview you can learn how Neoload, the popular stress testing softwa... (more)

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/ . ... (more)

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 p... (more)

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://... (more)

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... (more)

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 i... (more)

This podcast is about the closing  day of Adobe MAX 2009: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ How I understand the iPhone/Flash situation Good read about AIR 2.0 The Adobe MAX 2009 videos for developers are published the next day! ... (more)

I'm continuing covering Adobe MAX 2009 in Los Angeles. This podcast is about the day 2 at the conference: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ ... (more)

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.html Stay tuned. ... (more)

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.sy... (more)

RIA Developer's Journal on Ulitzer Today, Adobe announced a major release of LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), an SOA architecture for automation of document processing, RIA, and process management.  It’s an enterprise platform for SOA that brings together various technologie... (more)

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. ... (more)

Three years ago, I was calculating the cost of attending JavaOne conference: http://java.sys-con.com/node/187608. Thanks to the crisis, the conferences got cheaper, but are stil not affordable for many software developers. I’d like to offer you a legal way to get more than 80% of... (more)

Three years ago, I was calculating the cost of attending JavaOne conference: http://java.sys-con.com/node/187608. Thanks to crisis had, the conferences got cheaper, but still are not affordable for many software developers. I’d like to offer you a legal way to get more than 80% o... (more)

Published a podcast: "A conversation with a CS professor who doesn't want his son to be a programmer": http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ ... (more)

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... (more)

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 ... (more)