Well, I was going through the 600 RSS articles today and I came across a post by Tony Mobily titled: “Does anyone still develop Windows applications? Or, the programming world has gone online” Not only is the title bad grammar, it was a hate post on everything but AJAX. There are plenty of companies out in the world developing Windows applications and to say that Java and Flash are on the downturn is just plain idiotic. I would be open to debate the market share if there was an objective argument, but this dude is clearly not into any platform that you have to pay to develop in. Yea, yea, I know that you don’t have to pay to work with Flex, but it’s so much easier to just grab the FlexBuilder IDE. Anyway, Tony seemed to have an agenda against all of the major engines out there in favor of AJAX. Dont get me wrong I love AJAX like the next guy, but I am also a big proponent of Flex. I couldn’t figure out if this guy was mistaking the visual effects that are packaged into most frameworks and actual AJAX. At any rate, it was a similar post to all the many “ColdFusion is dead” and “PHP is greater than all!” posts on the web and that’s just lame.
I am a novice at Flex, but I am learning a lot every day. I have been reading about Cairngorm for a some time now, and I really can’t wrap my brain around it. I have never been a real big fan of frameworks, but I always give them a try just in case I find one that changes my mind. One thing I have noticed about Cairngorm is how many sample apps there are, yet so few REAL explanations of how to set up the app. Every framework I have looked at so far has had good tutorials of how to use the framework. I have gone through the docs, and the sample apps and I see the patterns, but I don’t see an explanation on why I have 6-8 files for one view. If anyone knows the ins and outs of the Cairngorm framework, please give me a good book or link that will explain the life cycle of a sample app. Thanks!
The more I work with Flex, the more I love it. Well, I am thinking of using it as a blog. I am working on the features, but I think I will release it with minimal features for now and then ask for a feature list from people who are interested. I figured the hardest part would be making the system easily customizable, so I am using a lot of css. I have put in a basic editor using the built-in rich text editor, but I am going to do something a little different when displaying images. The basic features for a blog will be in place. I am hoping to release the first build sometime this weekend, but I went ahead and put up the project so I can get some feedback and some ideas for features. If you are interested, feel free to comment with some features.
Okay, so I am working on a Flex app and I was getting a http error in Flex and I couldn’t for the life of me find the problem. I decided to place a cftry block on the offending code to get some debug info. Well, every time I ran the web service method I never got an email with the debug info. Well, I still haven’t gotten an email, but I now know that when Flex calls the method and it returns an error…there is no exception to report. Now, I could be wrong with this, but so far I have no reference of an error. So, for all you Flex people wondering why you don’t get an error via email…you never will. Your best bet is to put a dummy form and submit to the service as a test before working it in Flex. Just a heads up.
Well, well, well…Adobe decides to go open source with Flex! I personally think this is great because now the geniuses of the open source community will get together and build some nice free plugins for the eclipse IDE. To ream more about the release, click here. They also have more at Adobe Labs.
Recent Comments