Why it's a cool time to be a Flex Developer

The first  Real-World Flex Seminar organized by Sys-Con Media on August 14 is just an example of why Flex framework is gaining respect from Java/Coldfuions and Flash developers as development platform.
David Mendels of Adobe said :

The Flex Ecosystem is gaining momentum at a rapid pace. Flex-specific books, training, web sites, blogs, and user groups are all starting to appear. Large numbers of developers are downloading Flex 2. Several large ISVs have already shown their commitment to integrating their products with Flex. Flash Player 9 is also being adopted world-wide at an unprecedented rate.
The key themes for Adobe's plans for Flex include: facilitating broad adoption, Flex/AJAX integration, the creation of truly great experiences, embedded collaboration, support for mobile/non-PC devices, and Adobe's Apollo initiative (more on that later.)
David supported his talk with many good demos of Flex-based apps and laid the groundwork for what we would hear and see the rest of the day.

Read the full report of the  Real-World Flex Seminar  on the article :  "It's an Exciting Time To Be a Flex Developer!"

Comments

[Xiaolei Shi]

I don't trust anyone who's company tagline include "Ebay Solutions" nor do I trust a site that would sell their ad space to incredibly distracting animated ads. Not only is it ugly, it's just disrespectful to the audience that are attempting to read. Are we so inclined to believe everyone in this present day and age are asphixiated with ADHD that we can't even read a page without needing to see things move. If things get any uglier firebombings would be a blessing in disguise.

Money is the real issue, and none of this Web 2.0/AJAx/RIA malarchy. It's all terminology and dogma for the initiate. A petty con. Adobe is banking on hope, hope that they can profit from further abstracting programmatically until everything gets reduced to functions. Their functions. Hope that they'll bite into more professional Java Devs, by structuring a similar language. Adobe is underestimating people's blind allegiances. No amount of propaganda from bloggers are going to send the devs into a hypnotic paroxysm.

Ryan Stewart may be a William Randolph Hearst, but I'll be damned if he even comes close to Goebbels.