Thoughts, ideas, tips, musings, and pontifications (not necessarily in that order) by Ben Forta ...
NOTE: This is my personal blog, and the opinions and statements voiced here are my own.
Flex In A Week is an online Flex training course. To date there are three days of content posted, made up of over 20 videos and 10 exercises, and more content to follow. And it's all free for the browsing.
This is very cool, and timely since my IT director has decided to learn Flex and CF having not done any development in awhile. Any chance of getting a CF in a Week?
@clint - flex is balloon. other web technologies grow much much much faster. today flex sounds good but tomorrow flex is a balloon without air... flash silverlight is best for media.
largest .com's don't seem investing any money in flash based technologies. even yahoo maps dumped flex to ajax.if flex had been appeared before AJAX came out I could give a change but now I don't see a point. it is great product with no future..... it just gives developers headache:)
Ajax is the future? Plueeze. Breaks every time there is a browser change. Memory leaks. And the GUI at the end is inferior. Flex is harder to learn but it is worth the pain. I won't even go into the advantages of LiveCycle and BlazeDS.
I use Ajax for quick and dirty, or for making unique widgets - but not for major clients. At least not for complex intranet apps.
Lynda.com has pretty good CF videos:
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?...
And then there's John Farrar's book along with, of course, the WACK books.
--- Ben
I use Ajax for quick and dirty, or for making unique widgets - but not for major clients. At least not for complex intranet apps.