Author Archives: Anatole Tartakovsky
The Future of Mobile Technologies
August 14th, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
Yesterday I was giving a talk and the demo at Farata’s Fourth Annual Symposium on Software Development. The title of this presentation was “Using Mobile Technologies in the Brave New World of Computing”. It was a mix of the presentation… continue reading
Systematic Approach to Mobile and Web Development
August 7th, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
This Friday I’m making presenting at Farata Symposium on mobile development. Initially I was planning on just extending the same presentation I was doing in Denver @ 360Flex – showing the mobile version of a sales automation application and then… continue reading
The Brave New World of Prosumer Experience
July 5th, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
The long weekend of non-stop rainy weather presented rare opportunity of organizing the thoughts on the new developments in the industry and prepare to my presentations at the upcoming Fourth Farata Symposium ahead of time. Over the course of two… continue reading
RC Flex 4.5 Hits and Misses – Part 2
April 14th, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
In the previous post I mentioned that Farata developed View-based application running from exactly the same code in the desktop, web and mobile. Does it mean that we take portability above all? Not at all. We are simply pragmatic. And… continue reading
RC Flex 4.5 Hits and Misses – Part 1
April 14th, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
I am flying back home and want to share some thoughts on what has been happening in the last 4 days here in Denver. Obviously, you know about all announcements related to Flex 4.5. The sessions were very well prepared… continue reading
Time for “VMWare” on iP(ad)(hone)?
March 14th, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
I am very concerned by Apple’s stance on application platform control at this point. They are at the point when the competition is actually caught up technologically and in the price segment with Android. In my opinion, their next step… continue reading
Applications Everywhere Part 1. PDF and RIA merge
March 2nd, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
Any outsider who had to work with insurance bureaucracies quickly develops very strong feelings to endless paperwork, fine prints, endless riders and questions. It compounds with the fact that most of information you need to enter is public, not readily… continue reading
Applications Everywhere: Introduction
February 19th, 2011 by Anatole Tartakovsky
We are wearing multiple hats at Farata Systems all the time. For our corporate clients, we are the Rich Internet Applications shop that does project management and software development within constrains of the client vision and the product timeline. But… continue reading
Farata wants to participate in 360Flex
December 27th, 2010 by Anatole Tartakovsky
360Flex is the best technical event for Flex developers and our company is glad to contribute to the 2011 version of this event. Yesterday, I’ve submitted the following presentation proposal: Case Study: Using Adobe AIR on Android for Sales Automation… continue reading
We need daily builds of AIR
December 18th, 2010 by Anatole Tartakovsky
We are on the verge of the the most interesting year in technology – most likely since ’98 when the Internet revolution and browser war and moving to 3-tier changed landscape of the modern computing. The year 2011 will show… continue reading