Comparing AmCharts with Flex Charts

In this blog, i will share my experiences with AmCharts (Third party API for Flex Charting). The requirement was to show a dataset in two different views, first was a tabular view and second was the chart view. For tabular view we simply used the Flex datagrid. For showing the same dataset in charts, we [...]

Take Aways from Dr. Venkat’s Session on Test First Development

This Sunday (24th April) Xebia organized a session on Test First Development by Dr. Venkat. He is a well known personality in Agile and Extreme Programming field. He has authored several books and has conducted numerous workshops on several areas of Agile. The session consisted of three parts, first a question answer round, then an [...]

Rendezvous with Dr. Venkat at Xebia

Learning is a continuous process, and even though we practice Test First Development and Agile religiously,  there is no dearth of things to learn about them. So, keeping this in mind, Xebia organized a session by Dr Venkat Subramanium on Test First Development this Sunday(24th April) at Xebia India Office. Dr Venkat Subramaniam is the [...]

iPhone Memory leaks – An Introduction

I recently started working in iPhone (iOS) development. Before that I was having a happy life while working on Java-Flex technology. It is a big shift from wider to smaller space if you compare Java with Objective-C. Java guy doesn’t need to know much about the memory-management because he has a very good friend in [...]

Building Editable GridView for iPhone apps

Grid Views are powerful way of presenting data to users that won’t be as appealing if presented in tabular form. For instance, the default home screen of iPhone looks elegant when presented in grid view. Similar case can occur in your application as well. As for iPhone, sdk doesn’t provide any grid view implementation similar [...]