http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog a developer and entrepreneur on web technologies, adobe flash platform (flex, flash, air), web, opensource, linux, free software, usability, startups, India... Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:52:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are many who complain about missing features and existing bugs in Adobe Flash Runtimes - Flash Player and AIR. But some choose to use their energy in improving the platform by using it and providing feedback. If you believe in bringing the change: Download Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 and ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2010/02/08/how-to-improve-flash-10-1-and-air-2/ In India, Apple service doesn't work well. As far as I know, most of Apple customers in India end up paying more to purchase the same products than someone in USA or other countries. Why are we treated as second class citizens? Anyway, the current Apple support process in India seems to ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2010/01/09/apple-india-broken-servic-process/ Happy New Year to everyone, hope this year would bring more happiness and success in your personal and professional life. I also hope, a lot of problems in this world would be solved and make everyone (including animals, humans, trees, et al.) life easier and better. New year (2010) started some ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2010/01/09/happy-new-year-2010/ Most of us have heard about "Don't live with broken windows" or "Broken Window Theory" in software world, through books (Pragmatic Programmers by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell) and other sources (wikipedia, blogs, articles, etc). Like many others, I have also experienced that Broken ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/11/24/dont-live-with-broken-windows/ I have been thinking to start sharing my experience as an entrepreneur through blog posts. As someone wise once said, you can't make everyone happy or completely happy. It's so true, we all realize sooner or later in our personal and professional life. The context of this blog post is, how some ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/11/22/change-management/ ISyncSession record validation failure: Value other pushed for enumeration property service on com.apple.contacts.IM is not an allowed value. If you get above error while synchronising your OSX addressbook with Google Contacts, you might want to remove various IM types (Skype, Google Talk, etc) specified for contacts. OSX AddressBook can only ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/09/29/isync-syncsession-record-validation-failure/ In most common early start-up mistakes, Mark Suster talks about very interesting and insightful points. However, I feel like adding one more point, quite known but often taken granted, more specific to software or web start-ups. If you are a software or web start-up, it's really important to use the experience ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/08/18/another-common-early-start-up-mistake/ I still remember the day, when Jon Boutelle shared his idea of organizing first BarCamp in India (i.e. New Delhi) and wanted to know, if we (Manish Jethani and I) can connect him to someone at Adobe Noida for venue. Then the first BarCampBangalore, how idea started and how some ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/08/11/barcamp-kanpur/ Peter Elst posted his thoughts about ActionScript and where it's going. I agree with him and prefer to have simplicity we had once with ActionScript and Flash Platform. I wrote my two-cents as comment to Peter's post, that's how it goes: Nice post. We have witnessed how Flash Platform evolved over the years, ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/08/09/making-the-case-for-actionscript-my-take/ A few days back, Adobe announced Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), which was known as Strobe earlier. A few minutes back, I received an email confirming that Open Source Media Framework website is up with all the information, specification, developer-documentation, source (Subversion repository), downloads (binary and source) and bug-database. Open Source Media ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/07/22/open-source-media-framework-osmf/ Mrinal Wadhwa started a discussion, in Adobe India Community Champions mailing-list, to raise concerns about Adobe India's role in Flex India community, he raised some good points. It's unfortunate to see how one of the Adobe evangelists took it personal and reacted publicly and made some personal attack on Mrinal. You can ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/07/19/adobe-indias-support-to-community/ Somtimes Google would lock your IMAP account due to too many authentication tries using wrong password or too many IMAP simultaneous connections. I have not been able to figure out a solution to unlock it. What I noticed, it gets unlocked after five days, yeah that's right you would have to ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/07/18/google-apps-too-many-simultaneous-connections-error/ It seems BSNL secretly changed the 3G access-point details around couple of weeks back, so my 3g connection stopped working. I looked over internet to figure out the latest configuration details, I couldn't locate one. I talked to BSNL 3G technical guys in Kanpur and to my surprise, most of them ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/06/25/bsnl-3g-configuration-new-access-point-name/ I am sharing my experience while finding a good media-server (software that can store, transcode and serves various media formats to devices - computers, mobile, apple-tv, etc). We all (parents, brother, sister-in-law, sister and myself) stay together, which means we have got more than one TV, various devices (mobile, computers, laptops, ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/06/23/tversity-media-server/ Running a company in India is not an easy task, not because you don't know what you are good at. One has to know a lot more to do things - laws, acts and statutory requirements. It's easy for anyone with just technical background to make mistakes (i.e. unintentionally not ... http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2009/06/02/hr-and-payroll-for-small-companies-in-india/