Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Flex Interview Questions

Flex Generic Interview Questions
What is Flex? Adobe Flex?
What kind of applications you can create from Flex?
What is the output of Flex applications?
What development environment you need to create Flex applications?
Can you manipulate images using Flex programs?
Does Flex support creating workflow based applications?
What kind of data grids you can create through Flex applications?
How do you connect to a database via a Flex program?
What kind of source code integration tools are available with Flex?
What third party development tools are available to program in Flex?
Can you develop web based applications in Flex?
Is Flex OS specific or operating system independent?
Can we run Flex applications in MAC?
Do we need any plugins to run Flex applications?


Flex Technical Interview Questions:
Source from : http://grou.ps/flex/talks/13594

Is it possible to make httpService Requests synchronous?
I need to load an image from flickr into my application. Do I need a crossdomain.xml file on flickr?
What is the difference between httpService and Data Service?
How do you generate random numbers within a given limit with actionscript?
Have you built any components with actionscript? If so explain how you did it?
How do you implement push on a flex applications?
I am going to add images into a tag. How will it resize itself?
What is a resource Manager??
What are the similarities between java and flex
What is the dynamic keyword used for
How do you implement push with flex data services?
What are the methods called when a UI component is intialized?
How do you implement drag and drop on components that do not support ondrag and ondrop?
Can you write to the file system from flex?
What is a drag manager?
How do you call javascript from Flex?
How do you use a repeater?
What are three ways to skin a component in flex?
How do you use css styles in flex?
What is the difference between sealed class and dynamic classes?
What is MVC and how do you relate it to flex apps?
What is state? what is the difference between states and ViewStack?
How does item renderer work? How do I add item renderer at runtime?
What keyword allows you to refer to private variables of a class?
How polymorphism works on actionscript?
How do you overload functions in action script?
What is dynamic keyword used for?
What are sealed classes ?
What are runtime shared libraries?
What is caringhorm ? how do you use it? Have you worked with Cairnghorn?
What keyword allows you to implement abstraction better?
What design patterns have you used? in Actionscript and java?
What's the difference between Java and AS3 getters and setters?
Explain how binding works in mxml components.
What's the difference between ChangeWatcher.watch, and BindingUtils.bindProperty?
Why would you want to keep a reference to a ChangeWatcher and call unwatch()?
How do you add event listeners in mxml components. Now AS3 components?
What does calling preventDefault() on an event do? How is this enforced?
Explain the lifecycle of a Cairngorm action.
What is the problem with calling setStyle()
Explain the difference between creating an effect and setting the target as opposed to adding an effectListener
How do you identify a component created in a repeater?

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Dr Stephen Covey's inspirational book - 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People®

Dr Stephen Covey is a hugely influential management guru, whose book The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, became a blueprint for personal development when it was published in 1990. The Seven Habits are said by some to be easy to understand but not as easy to apply. Don't let the challenge daunt you: The 'Seven Habits' are a remarkable set of inspirational and aspirational standards for anyone who seeks to live a full, purposeful and good life, and are applicable today more than ever, as the business world becomes more attuned to humanist concepts. Covey's values are full of integrity and humanity, and contrast strongly with the process-based ideologies that characterized management thinking in earlier times.

Stephen Covey, as well as being a renowned writer, speaker, academic and humanist, has also built a huge training and consultancy products and services business - Franklin Covey which has a global reach, and has at one time or another consulted with and provided training services to most of the world's leading corporations.


Stephen covey's seven habits of highly effective people®


Habit 1 - be proactive®
This is the ability to control one's environment, rather than have it control you, as is so often the case. Self determination, choice, and the power to decide response to stimulus, conditions and circumstances


Habit 2 - begin with the end in mind®
Covey calls this the habit of personal leadership - leading oneself that is, towards what you consider your aims. By developing the habit of concentrating on relevant activities you will build a platform to avoid distractions and become more productive and successful.


Habit 3 - put first things first®
Covey calls this the habit of personal management. This is about organising and implementing activities in line with the aims established in habit 2. Covey says that habit 2 is the first, or mental creation; habit 3 is the second, or physical creation.


Habit 4 - think win-win®
Covey calls this the habit of interpersonal leadership, necessary because achievements are largely dependent on co-operative efforts with others. He says that win-win is based on the assumption that there is plenty for everyone, and that success follows a co-operative approach more naturally than the confrontation of win-or-lose.


Habit 5 - seek first to understand and then to be understood®
One of the great maxims of the modern age. This is Covey's habit of communication, and it's extremely powerful. Covey helps to explain this in his simple analogy 'diagnose before you prescribe'. Simple and effective, and essential for developing and maintaining positive relationships in all aspects of life.


Habit 6 - synergize®
Covey says this is the habit of creative co-operation - the principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, which implicitly lays down the challenge to see the good and potential in the other person's contribution.


Habit 7 - sharpen the saw®
This is the habit of self renewal, says Covey, and it necessarily surrounds all the other habits, enabling and encouraging them to happen and grow. Covey interprets the self into four parts: the spiritual, mental, physical and the social/emotional, which all need feeding and developing.


This 7 Habits summary is just a brief overview - the full work is fascinating, comprehensive, and thoroughly uplifting. Read the book, or listen to the full tape series if you can get hold of it.


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