Adobe Flex Builder Workshop

After dilly-dallying for two days and keeping me waiting for almost an hour, the senior i was supposed to be taking orders from, met me at KC today.[edited].She came with the expected sorry-you-had-to-wait look, and listened patiently to all that I had to say with a diplomatic I-totally-agree-with-you rejoinder that did wonders to my confidence. After receiving marching orders from her, I finally called up the *no-frills-guy* from Adobe, making him an offer he couldn’t refuse

And finally, at the end of the day,before I goto sleep, am feeling euphoric about the whole flex thing. The 2-day workshop will be held in the first week of October, preferably on the weekends. We have arrangements for having 25-30 students for the workshop and so chances are, registrations might close even before most people come to know about it. I had personally been using Flex 2 on Linux platform for sometime, (before a certain timani tunduwani from the US replied to one of my emails telling me the immense beauty of Flex in Windows albeit he had personally blogged on how to install Flex 2 on Ubuntu and also won accolades from the Adobe Team) and I had loved it. I have now moved to good old Windows (the damn thing erased my entire Linux partition, of which I had already been warned by the second year Einstein who built the Techtatva Website ) . It was also important to me because I had so much wanted to built a website using flash after I saw this.

Flex is easy, and Flex is fun.You can download the 30-day Flex Builder 2 trial here

For starters, the Getting started with Flex documentation(though I like to call it eBook ) can be downloaded by clicking here.

The already hip ones can view and download the Flex Builder 2 Developer’s guide from here

Happy FLEXing muscles (“,)

~Quote Of The Day~

~”A Windows User spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.“~

Manipal Institute Of Technology’s

Annual Tech Fest commences on 10th October, and there is so much buzz in the campus. The standards are raised even higher this time around by inviting over 500 colleges and institutes from all over the country and having super cool gadgets as prizes. So its gonna be a thrilling time for all the techies of our collage , busy and bustling with the organization work.

I have specially been looking forward to Param . I still recall the Internet Mania event under it that kept me hooked on to my dv2000 pavilion notebook for hours. There was also this event called Google Champ, which required the participant to enter the smallest word in Google Search bar so as to open a required URL in the first place.You could not enter any word that was a part of the full form of the URL name. I still remember one of the toughest of them all was http://msn.com/,because you weren’t supposed to be using “Microsoft” or any related word to search for it. After much effort,the damn thing opened up on entering “us messenger”.

Its an year now, and I just noticed ,on entering “us messenger” in Google,it opens up messenger.yahoo.com Now, from a business perspective , the change speaks for itself.It shows how Microsoft has been losing markets to its rivals.Now, getting into the issue, even Yahoo has lost markets (and advertising revenues) to Google.No wonder Yahoo and the big daddy of software, MS joined hands,and so the honeymoon between Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger.

Oh and by the way a certain alumni of our collage has agreed to conduct a workshop in the college,which all the more makes me happy.Whats more, he isn’t among the handle-with-care faculties .He is a super cool complete no-frills guy.I am glad I found him while blogging on my latest technical blog wherein I have decided , and committed at 43things.com(I ‘ll surely write about the amazing 43things.com some other time.Hate it or like it,you can’t ignore it!) to be regular technical blogger ever since I have moved from Windows to the debian based Ubuntu .And it has been a roller coaster ride,but I kinda love roller-coaster rides ;p

Techtatva’07 is a month away am I am keeping my fingers crossed.Keep watching this space for news and more (“,)

~Quote Of The Day~

~”If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0“~