It’s been more than a year I have not updated my blog. This is due to my move to Australia. My work and life both kept me so busy that I didn’t get much time for blogging. It was a great experience to live and work in the land of sun and sand.
I remember attending Colin Moock’s workshop on Actionscript last year in Sydney where he was comparing 'Sydney' as a city which is rendered on Maya. I do agree with Colin. It’s a beautiful place to work and live life at the fullest. I used to stay just a walk able distance from the beautiful Manly beach and Sydney harbor. I used to go often for fishing to the nearby harbor. I will miss all these activities Manly has to offer.

I will be missing this year webdu too. My ticket was already booked for this event but I won’t be able to attend this wonderful event.

I have been working on some exciting projects in automobile industry here. It was indeed a wonderful experience. During these days of working here, I was instrumental in setting up the entire test driven development environment (TDD). I have worked with some talented flex developers here.

It’s time to go back to my country and say goodbye to OZ.

So, what I am taking along with me? I am taking along with me all the beautiful memories and my work experience. Now, what next on the journey? I am looking for my next challenging project on flex. If you have a challenging project/ job, do let me know.I am open to contract/full time flex development work.

Contact me for flex training requirements in India. Having realized the scarcity of good flex trainers in India I have decided to be available as a flex trainer for a short period of time .Just to give a brief introduction of me; I have got more than seven (7) years of experience in Flash platform.I have been developing Rich Internet Application (RIA) for large enterprises for quite sometime. Being one of the early adopters of flex, I have extensive knowledge of training, mentoring and helping the java/.Net developers to pick up flex. Apart from flex framework, I am also comfortable teaching Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, Cairngorm Microarchitecture, unit testing framework and best practices. I have also had the privilege to conduct numbers of in house flex training sessions for the organizations I have worked. If you have any requirement for Flex training just drop me a mail at

deb . flex [@].yahoo .com
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Note: I will be available for a limited period of time.

I have developed a MXNA Reader few days back. I know there are couple of readers available online which are good in their own way. My aim was just to put together some of the best practices for flex development that can help others to learn.

Some of the features:

1. Flex 2.0.1
2. Cairngorm 2.2
3. Aqua Skin by Nahuel Foronda
4. Custom Preloader
5. This reader provides internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) support based on gettext.
6. Unit Testing and many more

It’s not ready to upload yet. It still requires little bit of re-factoring. I will make it online soon. Here are some of the screen shots for the time being :)

Bangalore Flex User Group has launched the initRIA website last night. It’s now up and running and open for registrations.

According to Mrinal, Manager, Bangalore Flex User Group:

initRIA it is the first of its kind Rich Internet Applications developer conference in India. We, the members of the Bangalore Flex User Group are organizing this conference with the hope of providing a platform for RIA enthusiasts around the country to interact and learn.

The lists of talks is not finalized yet, we will be accepting topic proposals till the 11th of December, so if you have a topic in mind that you would like to talk about, become a speaker at initRIA by sending your topic proposals to organizers@initria.org. You can get more info about this at our FAQs page

The goal is to attract speakers and audience who are interested in different kinds of RIA technologies although till now all the topic proposals that we have received are about the Flash Platform, probably because I personally do not know many experts on other RIA technologies... so if you know any RIA gurus do try and convince them to share their knowledge at initRIA. If you need any kind of help with this, do write to us at organizers@initria.org.

I will be there at initRIA and wish to speak on the event.I have not finalized my note for the meet yet..

Can not wait to meet all the flex enthusiast at Bangalore initRIA.

There is a minor change from Cairngorm 2.2 to Cairngorm 2.2.1.

They have changed ServiceLocator to reflect moving of classes to LiveCycle Data Services (fds.swc). The main aim is to align Cairngorm with the moving of SWC libraries in Flex 2.0.1 with Hotfix 2 and LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.x.

Cairngorm was developed to work on request/response communication mode. To work on Data Oriented Architecture is still a challenging task.It seems that Adobe Consulting is working on this area.We can expect some significant changes in next Cairngorm release.I am looking forward to the next big release of Cairngorm with all these changes.