Les Aventures de Techiemaque…

Tour de Flex is like mana from heaven for newbie developers who want to know what Adobe Flex & AIR are capable of.  It is an application built with Adobe AIR which is basically a component browser which showcases the Flex components with over 200 examples, source code and links to the relevant documentation.

What’s more, is that it is also available as an Eclipse plugin which enables you to lookup these examples and source code directly from the Eclipse IDE. This is specifically useful if you are using Adobe FlexBuilder to create your Flex projects.

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Tags: adobe, air, download, flex, tour de flex

As many of you would know that I have had to dissociate myself from the ESME for personal reasons. However I had a chance to be back with the team and honored when I was provided with an opportunity to present ESME at DemoJam, SAP TechEd Bangalore along with Mrinal, a friend and a ESME member. DemoJam took place on the 12th of November, 2008.

The video shows us on the DemoJam stage with Craig hosting the event.

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Tags: demojam, esme, sap, teched, video

Americans have spoken ! And to celebrate this occasion my dear friend and college junior Alfi Ashraf has posted an really amazing poem on his blog. It is with his due permission I republish it here…

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Tags: alfi, Friends, poem

It just needed some prodding from Craig Cmehil (as always) and I’ve just uploaded two of my plugins to the official wordpress repository. This blog also serves to be a shout out to my friend Oliver Kohl whom I’ve been constantly pestering to upload his fantastic SDN Contibutor plugin to the official wordpress repository. It’s a damn good plugin and he should upload it to the plugin directory to let everyone use his piece of work.

The submission process is a breeze which starts with the filling of a submission form and waiting for your submission to get approved. Once it does, (it usually takes about a day), you get access to a subversion repository where you upload your plugin files and a readme.txt and you are done.

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Tags: chinposin, fmr, sdn, widget, wordpress

Autumn is that time of the year when all Bengalis (also known as Bongs) head over to their respective hometowns in the eastern state of West Bengal in India. And the reason for this mass homecoming is the festival season triggered off by the greatest festival for the Bengalis, Durga Puja, the worship of the mother goddess Durga who symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. This is the time of reuniting with family and friends and great food, fun and frolic for the duration of the 4 day celebration.

Being a bong myself I could not afford to miss to celebrate this festive season with my family and thus set off with my wife Haimanti, to my home town Durgapur, a small township 158 Kms from Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal. Air travel being too expensive we settled for the Train, which would take a little more than 36 hours for the 2000 Km long journey from Bangalore, where I live for my work.

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Tags: bengal, bengali, bhojohori manna, calcutta, chello kebap, durga puja, durgapur, food, metro, pandals, peter cat, prawn, sandesh

…and they will love you.

I am always on the lookout for new ways to make my blog more accessible and helpful to visitors. And this does not only mean that I write something that helps them but also hold their hand if they stumble into a 404 or want to search my site better.

In my quest for a better and a more visitor friendly blog i stumbled upon these two wordpress plugins which i quite like :

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Tags: Blogging, plugin, search, wordpress

I heard about mx:Devsummit on Twitter when Mrinal tweeted about it and then the details from Raghu’s Blog. A RIA Developer Summit from Adobe is exciting enough but the icing on the cake are the free Adobe Flex Builder 3 licenses that go out to every participant, how cool :)

From the mailer that Raghu sent me:

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Tags: developer, Events, flex, ria, summit

Diveagar is small secluded beach on the Konkan coast roughly 150 Kms from Pune. I had been once sometime in 2005 and had fallen in love with it’s virgin beach. So in the long weekend of 15th - 17th August, 2008 I decided that it’s time i visit the place again, but this time with my wife and two of my best friends.

The Gallery below is fully interactive. You can drag images and double click on them to magnify them to their full glory.

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Tags: diveagar, Friends, pune, Travel, trip

I’ll be there at SAP TechEd 2008, Bangalore. Will you ?

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Tags: flex, sap, teched, widget

Singleton Classes are based on the Singleton Design Pattern and have a single instance of the class throughout the application. When would one need a singleton class ? A simple example would be a database manager class which would instantiate a connection to the database at the application initialization and have methods for data manipulation of the database tables. In such a case multiple instances of this class is not required and will end up consuming memory and other issues.

How does one implement a Singleton Class ?

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Tags: actionscript, flex