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Of all domestic air carriers, I like Continental the most. They showed Mamma Mia and the food was bearable. Last month, I was in the air for 14 hours flying to Japan, and now the trip across the USA is a piece of cake.
I have only carry luggage with me. This small bag has all the clothing I need for four days (4 t-shirts, four pairs of underwear, socks, three shirts, camera, laptop, over-the-shoulder laptop bag, toothbrush and shaver.

This bag fits nicely in the overhead compartments of most of the aircrafts. Two weeks ago, I was flying on a smaller plane to South Carolina. It didn’t fit up there, so I put it under the seat in front of me.
I’m writing this on Saturday, and tomorrow I’ll be spending 8 hours in the AIR workshop. I wonder if anyone will offer me a technical solution… We’ve got a call from a potential customer that needs an AIR application that will allow to select some files from the disk, and on the click of a button, the application should open Microsoft Outlook window with selected files attached. This doesn’t sound like a rocket science, but to the best of my knowledge, it’s not possible unless you engage some other programming language too, i.e. C++. Please, anyone, prove me wrong!
After checking into a hotel, I went for a walk around the Union Square. There are two stores that I always visit when in town: Levy’s and Borders. I was a bit late for jeans, but the Borders was open – it has a good selection of magazines. I bought the Photoshop magazine from UK , and Flash and Flex Developer’s Magazine printed in Poland but in English. This is the first time I see this well done quarterly magazine. It even includes a CD with 11 useful Flash applications and a good selection of articles too. Who said that printed software magazines are dead? Go Poland, go!
It’s an interesting business model though – it’s not an outsourcing. A company from Poland (based on the names, the editorial is polish) invites English speaking authors and targets English-speaking market. Why not?
Early in the morning, I received an email with MAX daily news with the information about various conference events, which is pretty convenient. The registration opens on Sunday morning at 7AM. I’ll go there earlier – because of the three-hour time zone difference, my biological clock believes that it’s already 7AM, but it’s actually 4AM as I type this.
In the unlikely event if you believe that just reading my blogs about MAX won’t give you a complete picture, install a little program MAXimizr written in AIR that will aggregate the MAX-related news and display them in a nice panel on your desktop.
Stay tuned...
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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Currently Yakov works on the book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.
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