Asian population in L.A.

I was curious how many Asian people are living around the “new Chinatown” (Archadia/Monterey Park/San Gabriel/Rowland Heights/etc.). This page comes up in Google search. http://www.laalmanac.com/population/po38.htm

I picked the cities that are located around that area and have more than 7% of Asian. And here is the list I come up with.

city          total population     population of Asian origin only
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Alhambra               85,804     47.22%
Arcadia              53,054     45.41%
Baldwin Park               75,837     11.64%
Cerritos               51,488     58.44%
Covina               46,837     9.82%
Downey              107,323     7.74%
Duarte               21,486     12.62%
El Monte               115,965     18.51%
Diamond Bar               56,287     42.76%
La Habra Heights               5,712     18.40%
La Mirada              46,783     14.88%
Montebello               62,150    11.64%
Monterey Park               60,051     61.82%
Pasadena              133,936     10.00%
Pomona               149,473     7.20%
Rosemead               53,505     48.76%
San Gabriel               39,804     48.91%
San Marino               12,945     48.56%
South El Monte               21,144     8.43%
South Pasadena               24,292     26.58%
Temple City               33,377     38.89%
Walnut               30,004     55.75%
West Covina               105,080     22.70%

The sum of all the Asian population in the cities listed above comes to 354,845. Not as many as I thought it would be, but enough to keep the area live and Asian.

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war over RIA – Adobe’s move

After Microsoft has released Silverlight (Check out the basic info here: http://silverlight.net/ and some examples here.) and basically claimed itself as better at everything that Flash has been good at, I see it as the beginning of a hot war over the RIA tools.

So far, Silverlight, Flash/Flex/(maybe AIR), AJAX, and JAVAFX are in the war. Flash/Flex has been the hottest and the most popular, while Silverlight has been the latest and dead against Flash/Flex.
I see it as Adobe’s big move to give a free AS3 training day by Moock all around the globe. Big deal. Check it out here: http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000255.html. BTW, all the guys in my office have signed up for it.

When Flash was first out and got hot (Flash 5 around 2001), there were a lot of designers coming from visual / graphic related background making timeline animations in Flash. However with time progressing, As2 has replaced AS1 and AS3 will finally replace AS2. Now I am coding in Flex with pure code and rarely have Flash open. Just like me, the people who are still working on Flash/Flex as their day job are probably the ones who are more logic and get a good hold of real programming (if not OOP yet). A good amount of people who were only doing timeline animation are not interested in converting themselves into a real developer. So Adobe realized along the way they have lost quite some designers as their potential users. I see this tour of free AS3 training day as a preventive move by Adobe to stop the over-the-edge users to become Silverlight embracers.