Flex is going Open Source
This just out today, for anyone interested in UI development and Rich Internet Applications:
Adobe has announced that Flex is going Open Source.
I've been doing prototype development with Flex for about six weeks now, and it's really an awesome tool for putting together polished, rich demos and applications. I'm still climbing the learning curve, and really enjoying it.
I think this is going to be an interesting challenge to Microsoft's recent announcement about
Silverlight. After all, I can't see them open sourcing Visual Studio or any part of their stack like this.
Way to go Adobe!
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Get your Flex API posters here
Well not actually from me.
But follow this
link to Ted Patricks site and you can get
free Flex API posters directly from Adobe.
What a great deal.
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Learning more about Flex
At the moment I'm working in a new team. We're investigating how to develop user interfaces on top of web services. I'm using Flex from Adobe to build UIs and experiment with different techniques for doing this quickly and easily.
I'm having a lot of fun, the Flex facilities are
very cool. But the learning curve is significant. I've been at this for about a month and I'm finally understanding how to do things the "Flex way".
One resource that I just came across is
FlexExtensions.com. They provide training videos for Flash and Flex. The tutorial videos are free and the ones that I looked at are very short and informative.
There are
lots and lots of other Flex resources, including the just restyled
Flex.org site.
If you get chance to play with Flex, I highly recommend it.
P.S. I also hear that there's a big shortage of Flex developers. So you might land a good job by learning Flex.
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