Yakov Fain

The time of my winter vacation has arrived. Have you ever had a lower back pain that lasted for two weeks right before your skiing vacation? The question was if those stupid muscles are needed while skiing  on the slopes of Alps. Our plane with about 20 amateur kamikaze landed i... (more)

First of all, Flex and  BlazeDS are open sourced and free, which is important for many IT shops even those from filthy rich Wall Street companies. Typically, an enterprise IT group has a limited budget, and even though a more advanced LiveCycle Data Services component offers you ... (more)

I've read an interesting article by Felipe Gaucho called "Good Java Developers Deserve Better Salaries," where he states that employers have to increase salaries for Java developers. Unfortunately, in the market economies such demands won't work. In enterprise IT no one just rais... (more)

I knew Joe since he was a kid. Today he’s 26, and here’s Joe’s story. Four years ago Joe’s got his BS degree in Computer Science. Joe always loved programming games and decided to start his career in a gaming industry. But here, in the East Coast, most of the IT shops are creating ... (more)

In this 30-minute audio podcast Brian Morton from SuranceBay.com teaches me how to become appointed and licensed insurance agent. He also explains and old and somewhat futuristic workflows between insurance producers, GA's and carriers. The audio file (MP3) can be downloaded by c... (more)

After teaching our popular advanced Flex master class in New York, Boston, Toronto, London, and Moscow, we are hitting the beer capital of the world: Brussels, Belgium. This class is scheduled for the first days of March, and we hope that Flex 4 will be officially released by th... (more)

Recorded a new episode for the No BS IT audio podcast: "Whores, pimps, and other IT resources": http://nobsit.libsyn.com Happy New Year! ... (more)

From Farata Systems Blog I had a dream. I had a dream that Adobe’s CTO gave me a call saying, “Yakov, can you help us with writing a roadmap for LiveCycle Data Services for 2010?” I said, “Piece of cake, Kevin. Just give me a half an hour”. This is what I came out with. 1. Gi... (more)

iPhone Summit at Cloud Expo Yeah, it's this time of the year. Again. Making predictions is so tempting... This year I'll cover just the iPhone. 1. Apple will let Flash Player on iPhone no later than October ’10. They don’t have a choice, if they want to stay competitive. Enough ... (more)

RIA Track at Cloud Expo There are about 250,000 developers working with Flex and AIR. If you add an army of ActionScript developers, this number will grow substantially. Where do you go if you have a technical issue while developing RIA? As of today, there no one place to ask qu... (more)

When I told a friend that I'm going to Moscow to teach a master class on programming with Adobe Flex , he said that I was crazy. Normal people don't go to Russia in December.  This reminded me an old Russian joke:  A boss asks an engineer, "Do you like sweaty women and warm vodka?... (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)