Winning Habits of Star Developers

Here are few points that i captured in the meeting. It was a great learning experience not only in term of technology but also in terms of technical etiquettes, I met few people with extra ordinary social etiquettes (actually irritating) too.

I would love to share few of the key points with you.

Name of the conference was - Unlock the star within you.

and They have been talking about Qt and Symbian technology as in technical presentations.

This was discussed by Erich John, He was talking about what one should take care of in order to shine in development and delivering the relevant and appealing.

Business Agility

Business agility is nothing but having that ability or say flexibility in your application /softwares or products which can efficiently respond to the frequently changing needs of a client or customers.
Its all about moving to coupling from hardwinding. Its about planning all way around, making up a proper strategy, thinking proactively and incorporate innovation in your work.
Business strategy, BPM () Business process management and SOA (Service oriented application)is all that's demand of time, keeping in view the smart and less job for coder, lesser maintenance and obivously lesser time for implementation.
One biggest challenge what i felt is by now (with whatever little experience I had in industry and also from the life.)
Never Tempt yourself to diverge from the standards try it at least because once you see the code running without even following the standards you simply get in the hold of bad habit.
yeah, obviously you will get back to following standard but I am sure that will be only when you would have faced enough damage so better as naive start following standards.
Documentation and Reporting, these two things are really I have felt these two are badly missing in the industries. specially in the start ups. They should follow all these standards, because very easily they miss it very badly when they start really growing in terms of projects and people.

My First Project in Symfony

First of all I installed wamp server 2.0 on my machine.

Its easy http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php

download the file from here. and then run it as you install any other program.

Next thing to do is- php -V

check php version.

you may get a message that your machine is not able to recognize this command name as php.

so the solution is add environment variable.

right click on mycomputer-> properties-> advanced-> environment variable -> edit.

in the tmp- > use the path C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0. append this using a semicolon after the given path.

then its time to install pear on your machine

its as simple as that - go to C:\wamp\bin\php and just execute the go-pear.bat file.

But when i did it, it gave me an error, may be thats the less compatibility issue of PEAR.

so i found a magic command- that will do u a trick -

this command is -

php.exe -d phar.require_hash=0 go-pear.phar

once you will run it no!!

it will install pear on your machine.

all you will have to do it -

either pressing 'enter' to continue or

typing a 'y' to say a yes for the installation of the files.

now you may feel a problem may be executing your pear command.

same - go and set the environment variable- C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\pear\, append this in the tmp with along with a semicolon.

Next comes the installation of symfony on your machine

why i preferred symfony installation over pear is - because it lets you explore and understand the real offerings of symfony. also leaves you with a lot many options.

One thing- that i learnt today - if you dont want to use name 'localhost' for- 127.0.0.1 then just go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts\ and change the name in the last line of the file.

hurrey, Now access your application with the name of your choice!! :)

BarCamp @ kanpur !!

New word!! , wanna know it ... what a Barcamp is ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp

Great opportunity for kanpurite Techies!!Its happening in Kanpur too !
http://barcamp.org/BarCampKanpur
and the best one for Tech students (BTech, BCA, MCA... ) infact to all (look at the topics, they are common) !

Check the link out, participate and volunteer the event!!

Help making Kanpur a place of learning enthusiasts!!

see you at the event! :)

How the data is sent !!

There were certain questions which always used to fascinate me, and I always kept finding solutions of them sub consciously. For eg- how does a child learn to speak the language, the emotional flow through words, decision making etc.

after I got internet connection at home what fascinated me most was 'how the things I type on my system appear at other screen'.

As I learned a little about computer networks while graduation, I developed certain analogy. And I would like to share that thing with all my readers

.

A computer is nothing different from any other electronic device as in it also takes the same input as your electronic iron, hair dryer, juicer, grinder etc. that’s electricity.

Ever thought that how they convert in to the words that we see on the screen!!??

The computer takes input in form of electricity that’s voltage- and the intelligent developed a language out of it.

That’s either there will a voltage /electricity flow => 1

Or there will be no voltage flow => 0

Now just two literals /numbers whatever you say it, the computer ancestors have to build all upon these two words.

They started working on it and soon – they started finding a way to represent English /language literals in nos. that’s popularly known as ASCII code among computer professionals and students.

ASCII- stands for American standard code for information interchange!

Information= words = literals -> code= numerical values!

But here was a problem that in computer it knew only two things either 1 or 0. how to represent the 26 values of English/lang. in this format!

They implemented the same mathematics as we learnt in class third.

In a number system – the fundamental of place values.

The no. system that we use is of base 10 that means by using just 10 digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 )

For eg-

3698

=3*10³+6*10²+9*10¹+8*10⁰

=3*1000 +6*100 +9*10+8*1

=3000+600+90+8

=3698

Yeah, that sounds childlike… as all of us know this.

As it came to computers, here we used the number system which could represent all the nos. just by using 2 digits, either 1 or 0.

The fundamental was just the same- that base= no. of digits it needed to represent any no.

There are two ways to convert a decimal no. into binary.

1) division method

2) multiplication method

so for eg- we can represent these decimal values in binary such way

0=0

1=1

2=10

3=11

4=100

5=101 and so on similarly

So now here can u think of a system where we can represent the language literals by decimal nos. in turn converted into binary nos. which in turn can be represented through electricity, that’s what we have!!

Eng. Literals ASCII values Binary Conversion

A-> 0= 000

B-> 1= 001

C-> 2= 010

D-> 3= 011

E-> 4= 100

F-> 5= 101 and so on similarly

Hence think of a mail conversation which consists of just these 6 literals “ABCDEF”.

That means we need to send the binary value of A,B,C,D,E,F.

Or just 000 001 010 011 100 101

So now we have our information which can be sent from the sender after ASCII and binary conversion through a transmission media to the receiver and the receiver in turn is a system/computer which just inverts the process. That’s it receives the binary values converts them into ASCII values and then accordingly the English/language literals.

Different Programming Approaches - Library Management System

In my Institute (UIET) I learnt C, C++ and also PHP ; learnt different approaches of programming mainly procedural and object oriented. Of course I secured an A in all programming courses but several a times I was unable to decide on, which one will be better approach for a certain program. 

Whenever I was given a problem to program, My first instinct was to program that in procedural method although I could give you proper definitions and examples of all the object oriented concepts I learnt. But the problem was that I was unable to think in OOP on the first hand. 

Last few days I have been learning to mitigate this confusion.  and here, am sharing a few things with you.  

Let us consider the simplest example of Library Management System- 

SRS- Software Requirement Specification for our software-

1. The manager should be able to add a profile (student +book).
   
2. He should be able to update and remove a profile.
3. He can issue, re-issue and return a book.
4. He must be able to check the fine on a certain book at a certain account. 
5. He must be able to see the list of issued or non issued books, i.e. we are looking for sorting and searching on a book or profile basis. 

Of course there can/should be a plenty of other facilities, but these which are enlisted are enough to achieve the motive of the post.

First Approach-  Procedure Oriented Programming

Divide and conquer -is called the approach, we simply think of a program  having a certain no. of small functions which do a certain job for it and then finally returning the output to its caller. Its like a hierarchy of caller and doer programs. 

Data structure - A book will have its name, a unique id no., name of publisher, course name etc. 

so the best data structure as it comes in mind is 'struct' for it is meant to collect different type of data in one single data structure. 

Similarly a student will have - A unique roll no. name, course, address etc. also the struct will do great here. 

we can define them before  'int main() ' like- 

struct book

{

int book_id;

char book_name[50];

char book_publisher[50];

char book_course[50][5];

}

struct student

{

int rollno;

char student_fname[50];

char student_lname[50];

int book_counter;

}

Now as we see there will be many profiles and ample of books, how are we gonna organize them?we can make use of array to do that, fixed or of variable size. also we can store the books and profiles in linked list- kind of data structures, oh yes, you can argue that , this can increase the overhead but think positively, it can be a great help while dynamic allocation of memory and also in arranging the books and profiles in preferred order. 

for eg- we can insert a book according to its course, id no. or may be according to the issued date or something like that. 

Then we have simple functions to get our things done, for example we will just input the name roll no and course of the student, and a function named as add_profile will add a new student profile in the linked list we just talked about. 

Similarly we can add a book, via some add_book function. 

we just need to know proper function signature to get our work done. 

But here occurs another problem- that every time you loose your library and student list as you stop execution of the program -by making use of 'file handling' we can overcome this problem. 

UIET - Last Days

I am planning this post to be a longer one- here, will share some of my cool experiences @ UIET. The first few are the dreams I saw, in last days of my college. 

 Dream-1   Let us WIN(e)D up

 Most weird and funny things we are going to do in this dream. So expect unexpected.

Its evening 5 pm.Five of us, Me, Gagandeep (GD), Akanksha (akki), Satya, and Sushil are sitting on the stairs, outside CSE building, after playing cricket match for five hours. It’s our last day at college. We are done with exams. Guys come and say bye. All are leaving to their home or hostels. And we are like- who wants to go home.

Me- Today I want to do something wild.... may be I want to drink.

GD – woo!! , yeah, I know a great place where we can do this, they provide pretty healthy wine, it’s made of all fruit juice.

 Satya- No, are u MAD. ARE THESE GIRLS GONNA DRINK?????  And u gonna let them!!!!!!!????

Akki- No, My dad will kill me if I ever do this.

Sushil-  If every one drinks , I have  no problem.

GD- Come on yaar, we all are grown up. let us go and at least give it a first try. .....................bla bla bla..He gives pretty much of good reasoning, why should we try drinking.

 Me- See, I am going, anyone!! If anyone likes to come, can come?

Akki- Ok, Shalini am coming with you. She looks at GD as if he is villain and she declares- No one is going to force us to drink!

GD- yeah, only you keep control on your self. 

Akki is frowned, twists her eyebrows and seems she wants to throw water on his face, may be some cake... or who knows if she is planning to put a lizard on his face.

Well, we all reach at the place. It does not look like a bar.

It’s just a good restaurant.

GD orders the things. I am like- remembering all bad memories related to UIET.  Also some good memories but not that much of them... Neither I want to cry, nor do I.

Satya is suggesting me to cry, and am laughing loud remembering everything.

Everyone laughs at me for am laughing so weirdly, although they are terrorized as well, for everyone is looking only at us.

We are drinking the transparent wine ......... one glass for one bad memory.

GD - 5 glasses

Satya- 4 glasses

Sushil- 2 glasses

Akki- 3 glasses

Me- 10 glasses

Oops! I am in poor situation......   10 bloody glasses of thing called wine...

Everyone is suggesting me to stop. I don’t

Satya- Stop her, she will die if she drinks one more glass..

GD--  No, let her drink as much as she can, so that she can get all her frustration out and can focus on her work.  :O  

(Bingo!! All three are into altercation, I and Sushil keep drinking. Sushil has no issues with who drinks how much! )whhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaattttttttttttt!!!!! She already had 10 glasses, Akki is yelling on me (indirectly on GD, she thinks – its all because of him.)But GD is becoming monster of the evening.He is making me remember of- how some teacher used the word ' ye ladki (this girl) ' for me. what a torture was done by HOD while submitting our final BTP reports. How he has given me poor marks in mid sems of Algorithms. here akki drinks another glass for I got an A, gotta max marks in end sem exams. My God what we are doing....... total 56 glasses by now.

Finally Akki slapped hard on my face, and because GD asked why she slapped me.... now it’s his turn to get slapped. And guess what- Sushil is dancing, he is remembering a girl whom she met in IIT while summer internship. And here is Satya weeping like a 10 year old child for his journalist friend.Guess more- Akki drinks 10 more glasses for her first crush. 2 glasses for each crush those happened in last 4 years.  (2*10)5 glasses for the boy -her latest love cum crush. Uhh and one more for the guy who is our junior and his face matches with her crush. : P LOL

The situation now is pretty emotional.Seeing this GD calls the waiter asks for tequila.He drinks it. When we ask - why - on whose name he is doing thisHe says- can’t tell L

Then a  pin drop silence! seems everyone dived into some sweet old/new memories. I am wondering what they would have been thinking.hmm.... finally Akki says- I understand. (No more problem Akki has with GD) and Satya and Sushil are also consoling him.I am waiting, I was anticipating that he is gonna cry, but he does not. At the end- all the four are alike most "thakele types" they are speaking nothing. And this is somehow charging me. (seems I cant help myself being monster) I am no more like a drunken, rather most alive, Seems as if I really had 20 glasses of fruit juice.

Their drama does not seem to get over.Finally I call hansmukh (Ashutosh) and ask him to arrange a car, and tell him that we are not in the situation to go home by our self.As if it was an urgent protocol, he puts his skates on and appears almost immediately.Now the situation is funnier, as he sees we have been drinking....... he says he too will drink....... and he drinks (12*2) glasses. MY GOD ...yes u guessed this right he tells us - that 12 rejections he has faced by now!! LOL.(In reality I think, he never would have proposed a girl) and he ever will like to drink, but he does - 2 glasses for each rejection

Anyways…Finally we reach home.

Dream 2- Out of the tyranny 

People from Space come to my college, they choose guys and offer them a free visit to space.The criterion for selection is a “Serious face and extra ordinary physique”.Here is an offer to the selected candidates- every one of them should take one of their friends (m/f) to accompany them.* And the friend should be such that - he/she is not allowed to smile/laugh.I did not get select for I don’t fulfill the criterion.The easiest of all - they notice a dimple on my face which tells them, I do smile most of the time.At last On the day of selection they gave funny purple space suit to the selected candidates.The selected candidates are not expressing joy… If they knew doing it, why would they have got selected?We are not sad. For all happy people are on earth, but at heart everyone wants to visit space. Next day – as we enter in the class, we see- that all the selected guys are wearing there space suit, in most weird ways. A guy – Afzal, has removed his sleeves from his shirt and the sewed those purple arms with that. A girl – Liz is wearing the space suit in Marzina (of ali baba and 40 thieves) style. A boy- Vaibhav is wearing a special hat cum mask. Yellow colored, for it radiates the light and thus they will not need any electricity in space. They have got very special shoes- Green-echo friendly shoes- with a soul which leaks small amount of water. We who did not get selected, although making fun of them, but its so fascinating, we wanted to touch their special suits and hats. But anyways we hold our urge to do this. Classes are going on. All teachers congratulate them, we clap for them in every class. Its lunch time and we are out in cafeteria. A guy/friend comes to me and he asks me to accompany him.I deny by suggesting him to go with his best friend.He tells me that he is going with her GF. I wanted to say yes, but I was being snoopy, about what’s going in his mind. Anyways, finally he convinces me.I try that all my friends get adjusted with the selected guys. And here starts the funny/weird scenes. We arrange a class to train such gals and guys who are not serious faced, yet they are going space.Most serious and mugging sort of guys comes to teach us - how to make serious expressions, how to look daunting, worried and depressed.Now Vaibhav of my class is like- we never saw him smiling.He is on stage, but then while seeing me trying making a serious face he starts smiling.I smiled back, and then as I started endlessly smiling /laughing/commenting.He starts laughing.Vaibhav is laughing. We are watching him as if we are seeing earthquake.Well yes, its no less than that, he has got most wild smile, I ever came across with.He laughs like a lion. :D People outside the class peep inside to know what’s going inside. 

Teachers and students from other branches come to see us (as if we were some circus)Then comes the HOD of CSE in the scenario.He orders all teachers to schedule 5 quizzes a day for usnow :( all gets sadAll joy, laugh and chirpiness is gone. We go through the quizzes; faces are all pulled up and serious.And finally when after 2 days spaceship comes to pick us up, no one is eager or happy to visit the space.Every one is drawn.They come down the spaceship, as no one entered on time. They see all of us and gets happy - they select all of us to go to the visit.We look at each other, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. But as together we get into spaceship. I make a comment-Finally we are out of the tyranny of HOD. Hurrey!! and we start shouting with joy. But we manage not to smile.But guess what- Vaibhav is the happiest chap, and he starts laughing. We are flying.They get puzzled whether to take us to space or not and we are like - teasing them, smiling every second moment :D

EMBED tag in HTML

I was thinking to upload a slideshow in my blog, came across this thing called embed tag in html. 

thought to share it with you guys - 

This tag is basically used to put some browser plug-in on your web page, used to put a sound file, a flash application etc to you page. 

Its advantageous over BGsound tag, for it provides an interactive interface to the users. 

Here goes all the stuff which you will need to learn using this tag.

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/embeddedobjects/_EMBED.html

 http://www.webreference.com/js/column20/embed.html  http://www.w3schools.com/tags/html5_embed.asp

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed2.html

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_12701

 http://www.world-voices.com/resources/addaud.html

Just a tag has the power to make your site/web page more beautiful more interactive. :)

Trace the Traffic

I am using web-stat for my blog and believe me It’s amazing, if you own a website or are a blogger, or just if you own any page on web and you are interested in the statistics that who, how, where and  when accessed your page just add few lines of code in your page’s html just before '/body' tag. And that’s it!!

Find further info here-

1)-  http://web-stats.com/ 

2)-  http://freehitscountersnow.com/

Glow Yellow!! - Go Idle and Chat

Yes, I understand how irritating is this, when people keep pinging you, no matter whether you signal green or red. 

The facility of getting invisble is not yet embedded in Google talk. 

find here the solution of your problem- 

http://www.nirmaltv.com/2007/10/29/make-your-gtalk-status-always-idle/

just install the plug-in, and enjoy!! 

Sansmriti'09 - A life time experience

As it spent two and a half years at UIET, on some 28^th feb 2008, an idea struck in my mind, that why don’t we have an alumni meet in our college. Suddenly I found myself planning for everything. Next night I wrote mails to seniors to fetch the current status of their batch mates. I got enthusiastic responses the same night. On 3^rd of march I started up with midsems of 6^th sem. She was in the same moment, as I told the idea to my friend Deepika, A final year student at UIET.

As we explored the things we got to know that a teacher in the college, also the alumnus and she did make some efforts towards it. We talked Director Sir, and before we could have understood anything, I felt people around less enthusiastic.

As I analyzed I got to know that they were not agree over one thing that –  the money that will be donated by alumni will go into University’s account in place of it being a separate account of UIET.

I came up with certain ideas but it was impossible to implement them without having alumni team with me/us.

In nut shell the idea swept away slowly, I got busy with other things; also I lost enthusiasm to fight back for I did not find an anchor to support me back.

Anyways, gradually a year spent by.

It was spandan’09 scheduled on 26-29 march. And along with it, Organizing team planned for Sansmriti- alumni meet.

Sandeep arya, a final year student also the member of organizing team contacted to Gagan Deep, my branch mate. And consequently I was contacted and thus I was in the team (they did not know that I previously made efforts for meet.)

Now we were a small team with two of us only with a lots of things to be done, as sandeep was busy with spandan stuff.

The biggest hurdle was where to start with.

The tasks we were upto –

• Collecting all email addresses of seniors.
• Sending them invitations
• Confirming their arrival
• Hospitality – making arrangements for the stay of our guests
• Getting good coordinators and volunteers
• Invitation to faculty, Director, VC etc
• Finalizing the schedule
• Deciding and ordering for mementoes
• Writing applications for taking permissions for almost everything and get them all signed up by Director Sir

And plenty of other things like posters, decoration etc etc which sound of negligible importance but took most of our time and energy. because we were inexperienced people, generating everything from scratch.

Ample of ‘not-to-happen’ things happened. (We will talk about them in next post.), but still we continued…….

It became 28^th march 2009, and finally clock struck 10:00 am. None appeared except the team. All my volunteers and coordinator members were on time.

 The first one to appear was Mr. Manish Dua, 97 batch, Then HODs and faculty-organizing team members.

No more alumni turned up yet, and the clock was strucking 10:30 am. We started getting panicky. But fortunately at 10:50 am nearly 8-10 alumni turned up. The first task then was getting the alumni information filled up, and providing them the entry cards. We were through with this formality soon and then we proceeded towards Director’s office.

From there we had to go to Center of Academics, a grand and beautiful building, where our meeting with Vice Chancellor Dr. Harsh Sehgal was scheduled.

Nearly 25-30 people, including 6-8 coordinators were there in the CoA. The meeting was unexpectedly successful. 

At times we got to see the things which filled us with the fascination of being the alumni of the institute some day.

All the alumni we received for the event were quite impressive, must say Handsome too (as the institute is just 10+ years old) and also well established in  this short period of time, unexpected once again.

To the alumni they seemed happy seeing the improvements in the college, new infrastructure etc, and above all their batch mates and juniors. We all were eager to know each other and to share our experiences, even talking/ gossiping.

With in seconds we got intimate academically, say it seniors, juniors, faculty, audience every one of the participants.

 Lunch, Interaction, meeting with coordinators, memento distribution ceremony, dinner everything went really cool, unexpectedly very smooth.

And how can I forget telling you amazing performances given by three of our seniors, Kshitiz,Vishal and Amit sir.

It was a complete 12 hours (10am-10pm) alumni meet. I was there managing things yet I gotta enough time to have words with seniors. The event was completely fascinating, involving, amazing and all in all it was a brand new experience.

Plenty of fruitful outcomes we got, benefiting juniors and college, but above all meeting the great products of our college filled all UIETians with joy.

Even before the meeting was over I started receiving the congratulation messages from juniors, batch mates even from Director Sir and few of the faculty panel.

 At night I reached home nearly t 10:15 pm. All my family members were waiting me eagerly to listen the whole event, despite from the truth that I was running short of energy, I decided to talk to them, (I did not want to let them down), But when I started talking ,,,,,,, I kept talking for 2 hours.

Finally I came to my bedroom at 12:30 am. Unable to sleep, I had been analyzing the whole event, the mistakes that were committed by team and by individuals, about the coordinators who should inherit the things for next year.

I looked at watch, It was striking 1:00 am. Dried mouth, I felt tired like anything. I had been sleeping only four-five hours since last 5-6 days. And hell I found that I was starving too. I got to remember that I did not take enough food neither in lunch nor at dinner , at lunch I was busy managing the next thing and at dinner I was in hurry to reach home, also too tired to eat. And while mom asked for dinner, I refused saying that I am done.

Now 2:00 am, yet no sleep.

3:00 am, still .. no sleep, only thoughts and I was famished.

Finally I knocked the door, and went in to kitchen, cooked poha for myself and ate it in peace and tranquility of night. Now I though I would sleep. But It took another hour to make me sleep.

Well, I awoke next morning at 9:00 am. J

So this was all 28^th march 2009 for me, the most awaited date since last one month.

At last I must thank all team members who made this experience worth remembering –

Sandeep, GaganDeep, Bhaskar, Diwakar, Ashutosh Rashmi, Divya, Varun, Abhinav, Anupama, Nikhil, Somyajeet, Shadab, Sandeep(junior), shakti…and all other friends, faculty members, Director sir, audience, and all alumni. (also my enthusiasm which kept increasing through out the process :P LOL)

What Is a FRAMEWORK?

you must have seen your mom preserving the peas to use them in out season, you must have enojoyed sauce at the same price, no matter whether its summers or winters. Baby, its all about the preservation. 

The great programmers were no better than cooks, The monsters said "hey why dont we preserve the functions we wrote for logging in and out, We use them in all websites". 

I must acknowledge that they were the fascilitators not the monsters. :)

The concept of reusability is a buzzword in programming since the booch. 

and finally they provided you with a ready to cook chilly paneer. :)

yeah the same is the concept of framework. 

you know what they do. Its like providing you a helper who has estimated that you used salt in your maximum recipes, and you cook only for four people at a time. Hence he is always prepared with the 2 t-spoon of salt.  :)

ofcourse you can tell him that "hey ramu, today I invited my two friends on dinner" and he would say "Ok, Ma'm take the 3 t-spoon of it then" :)  you see the extendability.  :)

keep it thinking the same way.... and you will find that-- The technologies are nothing but the common sense. (our moms use in kitchen) 

you see Framework= framing your work, putting the things at the right place. (remember your mom telling this to you all time, when you were trying to cook something out of blue.  :P  

BLUEEEEE??????? oh yeah ...may be brinjal.. its purple anyways!!  :D )

Talk in tech terms-A framework adds structure to the code, prompting the developer to write better, more readable and more maintainable code. 

Ultimately It makes the programming easier, since it packages complex operations into simple applications.   (you see, you just have to say "ramu, please grind the spices" :) :P   )

.. rest next time!  :)

Why do they always make logos of wild animals!!

18th of Feb, as i came back from college, again I got curious for this flex thing, In morning I read that "Flex is a XML based language that is compiled into flash applications".

Hey I was wondering that why do they use logos of wild creatures on most of the open source things.
Yeah may be that shows their spirit! :) (of being open= wild =animal= natural)  :)

Ok, somewhere i read that - 

Flex is mostly that, at least concerning Builder (not counting the server components). You have a framework with an extensive set of components which, with MXML - an HTML-like mark up language (XML) for laying out visual elements on the screen, help you quickly develop applications and form-based layouts with minimal effort.

Most design sites would rather stick to Flash, but for "applications" and things requiring a lot of components, Flex is usually the way to go.

Lets dive!!

I tried to download adobe flex trial version twice, but because of slow net connection and it also get disconnected amid the downloading, I could not.
I have got a t-shirt and a small pocket book recently which has this flex logo on it. I want to wear the t-shirt and also want to make something out of what I read in that book, soon I will. Today was the second and last day of techmart2009, the technical festival of my college, as i came home and checked my mails, i saw some mail from adobe, I joined its online community, hence they sent some mail regarding some information. I logged in through my account and checked few things, In between I got to see the http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/careeropp/fma/dayinthelife
Amazing!! really amazing!!
I started reading few online things about adobe. which in turn increased my curiosity like anything.
then I thought, let us keep the track of learning, hence i created the blog.
In this blog i m planning that i will write whatever i will learn. :)

I checked out few sites.
1. www.sliderocket.com
2. http://aviary.com/home
3. https://buzzword.acrobat.com/#o

and the very first thing that I noticed is-
"almost every site was made using gray, black, red and white colors only!! :) "

I never saw or used adobe flash, seems something used to adjust photos or make animations.

They say some Action script- the language of flash, to give the interactivity to your application.

Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005. "why?? did they sell macromedia?? "

I also got to know that Flex is a framework, i.e. it facilitates the job of organizing your project.

The applications you make using Flex are cross platform, they work without any changes on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, both in the browser and often on the desktop (for this they use some AIR technology of adobe itself :), wow what a chain of products. ) They worked on the same concept as Tata :)

Got to know that some application called "pownce" http://pownce.com/
has got closed on 15 dec 2008. this application used to sit on the desktop using Adobe's AIR technology.

check out http://desktop.ebay.com/ example of an online application using AIR technology (well, its the first application of flex i saw till now "not in black" :D )

Action script is a scripting language based on ECMA language, and ECMA sript is a scripting language standardized by ECMA international in ECMA-262 specification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

They warn that ECMA should not be confused with Javascript and Jscript.