Flex Online Style Explorer

At Xebia India we were having training on Flex, and this gave me an opportunity to look deeper and around this new eye catching technology. During this learning period I came across a free online tool provided by Adobe Flex to create CSS for your flex application. It is not a full fledged application covering [...]

Article Series: “Automated code reviews with Checkstyle” on JavaWorld

Today JavaWorld published my article series “Automated code reviews with Checkstyle” in 2 parts. Part 1: Automated code reviews with Checkstyle, Part 1 Part 2: Automated code reviews with Checkstyle, Part 2 This article series attempts to bridge the gap of code review with applying automated Checkstyle checks in a complete and proactive way. First [...]

My inferences about Agile from Sanjiv Augustine’s workshop at Xebia India

Last weekend, I had the privilege of attending and interacting with Sanjiv Augustine in his workshop on “Transitioning to Agile project management”. Sanjiv is a well known thought leader in the field of Agile and Scrum. He is an author of the book called “Managing Agile Projects”. I felt he was very practical and Agile [...]

A Blog aint An Article

Recently I had an interesting discussion with a colleague about blogs and about what keeps people from posting a lot of them. Especially in our fields where-in we learn something new every now and then and know that people will benefit from sharing our learning, what really pushes us away from blogging?

Flex Testing Toolkit

My recent assignment at Albumprinter gave an opportunity to play with flex testing tools available out there. Coming back to serious flex development after more than a year was a pleasant surprise. The state of flex when I last did something on it was for sure not “mature”. There weren’t many frameworks around. But things [...]