Moxie
No... this is not about some food item, some pop start or a description of fancy new motorbike. This is the code name for flex 3.0.
Got a chance to attend a seminar by Prayank Swaroop the other day. He
is a java coder turned flex evangelist. Its really amazing to see the newer technologies coming up. There is ActionScript 3.0, AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime, formerly known as Apollo), Advanced datagrid, improved charting and a lot more.
ActionScript 3.0 is a set of open source libraries now. Just download flash SDK and you will be ready to go along with notepad. At last people understand importance of open source for money making. But they are smart enough to charge IDE. AIR will enable you to run your programs as exe by just changing one property. Advanced datagrid makes the stuff so easy, those kind of things are a nightmare in .NET. This is just some of the new stuff.
My two pennies worth experience so far in flex tells me, it is a frikking hard language to code in. There is no good documentation available. No API so that method details will pop up when u code. I wonder why are they even charging their builder. This is the basic thing that a developer will ask for! On top of that FDS is so fussy about everything. It expects everything in very disciplined fashion. And sometimes it is so not obvious that you just wonder WHY. Agreed, I am just a rookie in flex. But trust me, it is irritating at times.
The only real problem with these upcoming RIA technologies is that the content is not supported by search engines. I guess the way these technologies are getting better and popular, they will make search engines change their way. Though there are some hacky ways to deal with this. I have even seen people putting the intended content in commented HTML tags just to appear in search results!
In spite of all the ranting, I have to agree, this has the coolest GUI available in market. Besides, when you know it well, you know it all.
Here is some flashy stuff...
Check out http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/
Looks Adobe has long way to go with flex.
Got a chance to attend a seminar by Prayank Swaroop the other day. He
is a java coder turned flex evangelist. Its really amazing to see the newer technologies coming up. There is ActionScript 3.0, AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime, formerly known as Apollo), Advanced datagrid, improved charting and a lot more.ActionScript 3.0 is a set of open source libraries now. Just download flash SDK and you will be ready to go along with notepad. At last people understand importance of open source for money making. But they are smart enough to charge IDE. AIR will enable you to run your programs as exe by just changing one property. Advanced datagrid makes the stuff so easy, those kind of things are a nightmare in .NET. This is just some of the new stuff.
My two pennies worth experience so far in flex tells me, it is a frikking hard language to code in. There is no good documentation available. No API so that method details will pop up when u code. I wonder why are they even charging their builder. This is the basic thing that a developer will ask for! On top of that FDS is so fussy about everything. It expects everything in very disciplined fashion. And sometimes it is so not obvious that you just wonder WHY. Agreed, I am just a rookie in flex. But trust me, it is irritating at times.The only real problem with these upcoming RIA technologies is that the content is not supported by search engines. I guess the way these technologies are getting better and popular, they will make search engines change their way. Though there are some hacky ways to deal with this. I have even seen people putting the intended content in commented HTML tags just to appear in search results!
In spite of all the ranting, I have to agree, this has the coolest GUI available in market. Besides, when you know it well, you know it all.
Here is some flashy stuff...
Check out http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/
Looks Adobe has long way to go with flex.
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