mHealth & H-Cloud

Last week, a US based Flex/Flash developer who IMO belongs to the top 20% Flash developers twitted that he was contacted by a recruiter offering a contract paying $55 per hour. While $55 per hour may sound a lot in some of the developing countries, the cost of living in the USA makes this rate a joke. And we are not talking about some rookie who learn Flex last week in a classroom.  Pretty sad, isn’t it? Next day, a manager of a large corporation asked me if our company can provide them with a senior Flex/Java consultant working onsite in a greater New York area.  The rates were $60-$80 per hour plus this software developer would have to go through another consulting company that was on a preferred vendors list of this large corporation. This middleman would also need to get a cut from this rate. Let’s do some math together assuming that the corporate client is will... (more)

Get a Jump on Your Taxes: Pageonce and H&R Block Bring Online Personal Finance and Tax Filing Simplicity to Smartphones and Tablets

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/31/12 -- Pageonce, the top mobile service to track online personal finance and pay bills, teams up with H&R Block, the world's largest tax preparation company, to launch the H&R Block Tax Center today as a way to simplify the tax preparation process using the Pageonce Money & Bills mobile app. The H&R Block Tax Center appears on the main menu of the award-winning Pageonce Money & Bills app and provides three options: 1. Register for H&R Block At Home online product -- including a Free Edition for simple tax situations. 2. Download the new H&R B... (more)

Busy Status Indicator with JSF 2

I've had a few requests on how to write a busy status indicator - you know, the little spinning ball that's there while an Ajax call is active, and which goes away once the request is complete. So, I spent about two hours today, and did just that - including putting it into a component so it's reusable. As usual, it involved no Java, and only a minimal amount of JavaScript. First, I needed an animated gif for a spinning image - there were a number at http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators - I just picked one. They're all in the public domain, and there are other sites which of... (more)

Enis Berberoğlu Named Editor-in-Chief of Hürriyet

New Media on Ulitzer I left Chicago late the night of December 30, via Turkish Airlines to spend the New Year with my mom in Turkey. Our plane arrived in Istanbul the next evening. There were five hours left until the New Year and the traffic from the airport to the hotel was bumper-to-bumper. I saw this on a CNN International program. I don't think there is another country on earth that loves their Papa Noel (Santa Claus), Christmas trees and Christmas music more than Turkey. And I am not sure if there is another Muslim country out there that is in love with Christmas like the T... (more)

RichFaces – Wizard Inside Modal Panel

This is a 5-minute guide to creating a wizard inside a modal panel. We are going to use a4j:include together with rich:modalPanel. Start page (start.xhtml):     Wizard Close ... (more)