Found via my newsfeed that Adobe is open sourcing FLEX..I played with flex when it was beta few years ago and thought it had great potential for constructing rich client applications. Subsequently, I followed the Laszlo world and felt it offered better options than flex…I also admire Oliver for his amazing coding and writing prowess; so that had something to do with my bias towards Laszlo..
When it started, the strategy was Flex to be the defacto app dev platform for j2ee and web developers alike; but found through my clients that Flex was an exhorbitant option and they mostly opted for simpler Flash dev. I personally have seen one customer adopt Flex and few adopt Laszlo.

The news that Flex is open sourced is great for the general OSS community as its a testament that Adobe is now seeing OSS as a viable go-to market strategy just like IBM, Oracle, Sun et al.

… for days like these…

[via Reddit] I saw this article that pretty much sums up my sentiment on the languages I should have learnt in the order described below; but I still have time to master them albiet not in the order I wanted..[I have added few to the original list]. The original article is a very good read…

1. Lisp
2. C: Portable Assembly
3. Smalltalk
4. Prolog
5. Haskell
6. Erlang
7. Javascript
8. Perl/Ruby/Python

Its middle of April (almost) and this is what I get in Chicago-

and I forgot to take my jacket…

I wrote here a while back on learning first order logic for a class I am taking..Recently Eli has posted a nice sample on solving Sudoku using this style of programming..I used Alloy from MIT to model Sudoku and solve it using a similar approach..It was amazingly fast. Another reason why I should learn Prolog and LISP.

I am in Chicago these days atleast for a while…if you are in this neck of the woods - drop me a line and maybe we can geek out…

We concluded the Saturday Morning Physics Lecture series at Texas A&M this weekend with a summary lecture by Dr.Rapp. Sam and Jay both have enjoyed this series. Specifically, I am proud of Sam for sitting through all 7 lectures and taking the quiz at the end and for participating in the whole experience. Jay has attended 3 lectures and taken 3 quizes - guessing the multiple choice ofcourse..

The topics were all around particles from micro to macro and the mysteries around it. All the seven lectures were very well done and informative. I really learnt a lot about the quarks and the ideas behind how they are all tied together.

Thanks to all organizers of the show! I even got a fancy certificate for attending the series..