nirav April 30th, 2007
I am a bit late to write about this, but Adobe has decided to open source Flex fully by the end of the year. It will be released under MPL. The Flex SDK, the compiler, debugger, flex components and AS3 libraries - all will be open sourced.
This is a major move! A very strategic one I must say. Adobe is certainly trying to kill competition - whether it is OpenLaszlo, or the upcoming Microsoft technologies including WPF/E & Silverlight. Making Flex open source will not only get a lot more visibility for Adobe & Flex, it will also mean a lot more developers who can contribute to Flex, while Adobe focuses on Apollo as a delivery platform for Flex and HTML. I am sensing that Adobe’s got plans to push Apollo real hard. They may even have a couple of very strong products using Flex coming out in the near future. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them is related to entertainment!
But heck, whatever is the business agenda behind this, it’s a great news for developers! We will see more news from Adobe soon!
And for all those who did not notice it yet, the announcement comes right before Mix 07 - the Microsoft conference where they are going to do a lot of talk / demos on Silverlight. (it was also an eyebrow raiser to notice the similarity in name of this conference with Adobe’s MAX!)
nirav April 26th, 2007
Read an interesting note from boss to employees on ExecPundit. Naveen sent the link and I felt if everyone would follow those suggestions, things would be so much better! The post also has a few notes from employees to the boss, and they are also a good read! Here’s a sampling of the note from boss to employees:
- I am sometimes under enormous pressure from upper management; pressure that you seldom see. Anything that you can do to make my job easier will be greatly appreciated.
- I will make mistakes. Please give me the same understanding that you’d like me to give you when you blunder.
- If I do something dumb or am on the verge of doing so, please tell me. Don’t hint. Tell me.
- I expect you to take initiative. If you keep bouncing things to me, I’m going to wonder why I have you around.
- Don’t let all of my talk about meeting goals and producing results lead you into unethical behavior. You always have my permission to be ethical.
- If either of us has a problem with the other’s performance, let’s talk about it.
So true!
nirav April 25th, 2007
I have been thinking about doing an MBA for more than a year now. Wanted to do it when I was in college, never did it because I started Magnet in last year of college. Was talking to Naveen the other day about personal MBA, and it came up again.
What’s the best MBA program for me? At this stage, I can’t do a full time MBA, since Magnet is in growth phase. Time is a constraint again. I understand there are different programs, and the value of each is different. Executive MBA, Part Time, Distance Learning and of course full time. There are tons of institutes offering the program - including foreign ones.
I asked Ashok, and he said why do you want to do an MBA! The purpose is to get a degree and to grow the network. I certainly will get to learn a lot of theories, but that’s not what I would do an MBA for. There is still some time for the entrance exams etc, but I want to think about it in advance!
At this stage, I am unclear.
Any advice?
Magnet April 24th, 2007
* Finally, we did it!
List of people who attended meet:
1. Hardik Dalwadi (DeepRoot Linux)
2. Kartik Mistry (Magnet, Utkarsh)
3. Isaac Praveen (DeepRoot Linux)
We met at CCD near LD College of Engineering around 7 PM yesterday. It was surprise that only 3 people actually turned up at meet (I though of atleast 6/7 people). But, since this was Meeting Zero, Never mind!
We discussed lots of things from Debian Etch release to DeepRootLinux. Hardik showed fancy Beryl and Deepofix working. I handed over Debian Etch Multiarch CD, We tried to install it over VMware but couldn’t get it working 
We also talked about attending some next cool events and involving student in LUGA. For any LUG, it is vital to have student base. Well, we had nice coffee too (Thanks to Hardik/Abhas Abhinav for sponsoring it!)
And yes, we had nice BSOD when Hardik tried to show me Windows XP Embedded! I took chance to get its video too!!
Pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kartik_m/tags/lugameet0/
So, if you are at/near Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar and care and dare to travel on Sundays, you are most welcome!
Magnet April 24th, 2007
* 38 C is OK but, now this is strange!!
