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Yakov Fain

Biography

Yakov Fain is a Managing Director at Farata Systems, a company provides consulting and training services. He authored several books on Java and Flex and dozens of articles on software development. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Mr. Fain with the title of Java Champion, which was presented to only a hundred people in the world. Yakov is Certified Adobe Flex Instructor. He holds MS in Applied Math. You can reach him at yfain@faratasystems.com.

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The Aftermath of Adobe MAX 2009

October 19 2009

This was my second MAX and, let me tell you, I enjoyed it a lot more than the last year’s one. This was an intriguing event with lots of interesting news, and promises of new releases. Being in Los Angeles... read more

Building an Enterprise Framework - Enterprise Development with Flex, Part 3

May 20 2009

Note: This is excerpted from Chapter 3 of the Rough Cuts version of Enterprise Development with Flex. This book is still in progress, and you can get access to it now. Get the Enterprise Development with Flex Rough Cut Rough... read more

Building an Enterprise Framework - Enterprise Development with Flex, Part 2

May 13 2009

Note: This is excerpted from Chapter 3 of the Rough Cuts version of Enterprise Development with Flex. This book is still in progress, and you can get access to it now. Get the Enterprise Development with Flex Rough Cut Rough... read more

Building an Enterprise Framework - Enterprise Development with Flex, Part 1

May 07 2009

Note: This is excerpted from Chapter 3 of the Rough Cuts version of Enterprise Development with Flex. This book is still in progress, and you can get access to it now. Get the Enterprise Development with Flex Rough Cut Rough... read more

The Future of the Web: I Disagree

March 25 2009

Tim Bray, a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems has been interviewed by InfoQ about the future of the Web. With all my respect to Sun’s engineers, I have to disagree with some of the statements... read more

Introducing Enhanced Flex Components from Clear Toolkit Framework

March 05 2009

The goal of this article is to give you a brief overview of some of the objects from clear.swc, which is a part of the open source Clear Toolkit framework available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit. Component library clear.swc includes a number of... read more

Clear Toolkit framework for Flex goes open source

February 26 2009

Farata Systems has open sourced Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java. The latest builds and the source code of Clear Toolkit 3.1 are located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit/ . The current documentation, demos, user... read more

Pet Store with JavaFX 1.0. Part 1.

February 12 2009

I work for a company called Farata Systems. Laura is our office manager, and she doesn’t know Java. Everyone else does. We work in the enterprise RIA space using Adobe Flex as a main development tool for creating all these... read more

Data Synchronization with AIR and BlazeDS

February 09 2009

One of the main selling points of Adobe AIR is its ability to support occasionally connected applications. Imagine a salesman on the road working with an application without having a network connection. As an example, this can be a salesman of a pharmaceutical company visits medical offices offering their new… read more

Enterprise Development with Flex

February 02 2009

This is my first blog at InsideRIA and I’m glad to be here. I’ll start with a quick introduction of the new Flex book that I’m working on with my two colleagues - Victor and Anatole. This advanced O’Reilly book is titled “Enterprise development with Flex”. The rough cuts version… read more

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