AIRup your desktop application, Shu.

Ever thought of making a standalone application out of your already built AIR application? Shu is the answer.It simply takes an AIR application and packages it to a standalone application.Is not that amazing ? Once one completes the creations of AIR application on its favorite IDE may it be Flash, Flex, APTANA or whatever, the AIR application can easily be made a desktop application with Shu. Well, I think that also means, that whichever AIR runtime user is having or not not having my AIR application is bound to run.I have not tested it yet, so will comment about that once I do the test.

For me the question is how we look at AIR as a development platform? Is it going to completely wrap up the desktop applications? In the beginning I used to think so, I will never need to develop a desktop application, all I have to do is develop AIR applications.But products like Shu made me think twice.

First impression of Zemanta

Today while going through the regular blog reads, I came across ‘Zemanta‘ and trying it for the first time here.I thought to give it a try itself. Well, I am in Firefox and the installation went really smooth. Restarted the firefox and now inside my blog edit mode. As soon as I went inside the edit mode and tried to type out something, the plugin started updating on the left side of the regular wordpress edit mode.

I am finding it really cool and my first impression is wow, I am hoping that this will stand up to my expectations and keep its faith as a real cool add on.

Photoshop goes online

Well, another great move by Adobe. Here is the link to start your photoshop experience online. With Adobe Photoshop Express, Adobe is making a statement. Here comes my applications, lets begin with Photoshop. What I can see is, what we were talking for quite a long time. Everything is going to be online, one just need a platform to connect to net.

Well, well this new incarnation of photoshop is also shouting out loud that Flash is the future. This application is still in BETA and only for “United States” but one can register it and start the online photoshop experience.

Cheers to Adobe.

New releases Flex4,PureMVC,Box2DFlashAS3

Flex4 (Gumbo) is under rapid development. The best part is one can watch the path it follows during development and participate in the development too.Since Adobe has already open sourced it.

One of the best Opensource Actionscript framework PureMVC is now ported completely into AS3. And this awesome framework has got a new home for AS3 too :). That is a great news for me as I was trying to get my hands on the framework but cold not find the opportunity as all of my current projects are in AS3.

Well, well good news are still there. One of the best Opensource 2D Physics engine is now completely ported into AS3.Yes I am talking about Box2DFlashAs3. Now I can even try 2D Physics.

Wow, a lot of things are happening around AS3 and the big thing is arround Opensource flash . I think I must take some time out to play around with all these and many more in the Actionscript3 world. Enjoy Flashing

An old friend and a lot of hope in life

This is simply the most amazing thing to happen to my life.One of my dearest friends mailed me.whats the hell? what is so amazing about it?!
This mail came after 8 long years and with doubt of reaching me.The story goes like this.After getting our architectural degrees, we separated and life had never given us chance to be together or even to talk with each other. We never knew whether each others’ ids are still active or not.For past some months, I was always thinking of getting in touch with my friend, but all in vain.I could see all others in one or other social networking sites, but this fellow!!!I never found.The email id we shared back then was not active for my friend too.Googled, but no match. I thought in this era when every one is talking about information flowing arround, digitally transmitting things, can one person avoid net.But thats my dearest friend, who still seems to be not comfortable with net. From whatever information I was having back then, I thought I will make a trip arround and search for.I was working out the same in my back of my mind, but then I started believing in my telepathy potential and GOD’s grace. Well, then came a mail saying if this id is still active, please mail me back, I want to be in touch.WOw, WOW and wow. That worked.Thanks God, We are in touch again.A big thank and lots of love to my friend too.
I must say, what I have earned in all these years are some real good friends, who always make me feel good, who always proved that I am right even if I think I am not.
Now, I am thinking of practicing telepathy, so that I can transmit information even matter if needed .Fealing like the old Mythological days.And this is again proving me, where there is a will there is a way.One must have a will and the way will automatically come.We might not see the way in the wildest of our thoughts, but the way is always there, if you have the will.
I am so happy to get my dearest friend back.

Believe in the best in you.

Well, India beat Australia. How does that sound?
Yeah, WOW. Thats a win India required and got convincingly. A big congratulations to the team. The whole team played well. The captaincy, the fielding, the bowling, the wicket keeping, the batting, the situation management and what not, just everything is done so very good. All the players, all the players are just put it and showed how cricket should be played. A gentleman’s game should be played like a gentleman. I am just thinking whom to praise, could not decide, because India just played as one, one team, one spirit and unbelievable game.
It is the belief of the captain(Mahendra Singh Dhoni) on the players. Its the belief of players on each other. Its the belief of team. Its the belief in truth as its always be ‘truth always wins, sooner or later’. Despite of all odds India is standing tall. Its actually making me believe in truth and honesty. Believing in self and ignoring all, that is around to put you down, makes you a success.
I am not saying that all of the team Indian was perfect in the game today.But they believed in themselves and on each other.There were catches missed, there were mis-fielding, there were mis understandings between each other, there were bad bowling, there were bad quality batting, but in the end India won, for the faith and belive. They keep faith on self and belive on their potentials and won the battle.Team India was decent, explosive in their game and examplanary as sportsmen.
I must thank Sachin Tendulkar for his unbeaten century.This is not just the way he made his game today, but for all those good things he made in the field.He was silent, self contained, well behaved ( even if the opposition is throwing anything at him ), explosive in his game and mentor for juniours.
All in all cheers for the team India, thanking you for making us proud.Keep the good spirit up, all the best.

webservices in flash cs3

Well, I am recently working on a project which required webservices to be consumed in Flash CS3. But surprisingly I found one can not use Flash CS3 to consume webservices directly. The classes were previously present, but removed. One of my colleague’s made it possible to work with webservices by compiling some Flex2 classes inside a SWC. But my curiosity does not end there as always. I tried to dig into the problem and found these two links, very useful.

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Using flex compiled code in flash

The search still continues

Here is another good way.

One more link for the usage service.

AIR and FLEX 3 are finally here. Next Flash player is showing its face too :)

After a year long, testing and alpha, beta realeases, finally Adobe released Flex3 and much awaited AIR1. Well, Adobe has a clean new portal dedicated to Opensource too. This is present at http://opensource.adobe.com

At the same time FITC Amsterdam has also started from today. Its the first day and Adobe is showing up the next version of flash player codenamed Astro, looks awesome along with FlashCS4 codenamed Diesel. I like this guy Aral, he makes me feel as if I am there in the conference.Any and all the conferences he goes, puts up the video immediately. So thank you Aral. And you guys enjoy this video at his blog :).

The journey so far

Well, this post is nothing technology.Its my birth day today and I was thinking about all the past,present and future.
One thing I realised that I was all the time accompanied by The God.Whether its college time, institution or proffession, somebody always makes me feel that there is GOD and HE is always with you. I am not talking about any religion in particular. If I think of today, there are 6 people in particular to point out.Two of them are Muslims, two are christians and two are hindus, but I am always with either of them or all of them. Despite our religion, despite how much time we spend with each other, despite of whether we are near or far, they respect me and I respect them. There are times I fight with each of them, we have different opinions, but still we pray for each other.Yeah, we pray for each other for well being of the other.
One of my friends, is in Saudi now, he is a muslim guy and basically from Mumbai.I remember we talk about religion with each other and respect each others religion.We even shared one tiffin for lunch.He used to tell me, today you do not eat from my tiffin, because it may come between you and your religion.WOW,is not that great!!Once he was telling me tha the is doing Manaz for 4 times, i said why not 5 times, try it out, you can do it.I was even visited Mosques and holy places with these guy. He tries to explain me about the mosque, its history, the rituals and what not.
The other muslim friend of mine, is a holy soul.He does not drink tea even!! He is an early riser, 5 times Namaz doer.I felt God.He is softspoken, mild but well built body.He says the body is the abode of God, so I must take care of God’s place.Once, I was very upset and he advised me, do not worry, Truth always wins.He said, I will pray to God to give you peace and happiness, that was so good feeling.Now this guy, stays in Chenai, India. Everytime we meet online, must talk each other’s religious growth for sometime atleast.
One of my christian friend is a hardcore gamer.I used to get all the gaming world updates from him.I am fortunate that he lends me his original game DVDs :).He is as serious about God as I am.Its because of him only I got the indepth knowledge of Christianity.We gel with each other because of the technology.He shares gaming world and I share Flash.But then we often talk about GOD.I have visited his church with him almost for 3 months continuously. From my child hood, I seldom used to pray, but this guy showed me what happens when you pray.And then I got the habbit of praying.Still pray as much as I can, somedays skip too :).The other one was a collegue of mine.She is a preacher.She even gifted me an original Holy Bible.I sometimes go through it. She is the person, who forced me to pray, everyday in the office.So, we used to pray, just before we start our daily work in the office. Anytime, I got anything wrong, I always used to ask what to do now? And smilingly she used to say do not worry, ask God for help.Go and pray and tell everything to GOD and seek his help, HE will help you out.And I used to do the same.
Now, most of these guys are not with me in the same city or in the same office.But whenever we talk, we give some time to talk about GOD.

Sun Microsystems to acquire MySQL

This is probably a concern for the open source developers as Sun is taking over the most widely adopted open source Database Company MySQL. But as per the details in the announcement it will still be opensource. Well, Sun already knows opensource philosophy and quite a good player in it. So my thought goes the way Adobe-Macromedia acquisition. But this is most probably the biggest acquisition ever, not only on the money front but if we think about the clients, Google, Yahoo, Amazon are just the beginning of the client list of MySQL.